Kraser Abiding Sovereignty

Anarchy
 Defining characteristic of any international system
Authority
 The absence of legitimate hierarchical source of authority

English School tradition

 Made distinction between international system and international society
o International System
 Lacks a hierarchical structure of authority
o International Society
 Contains shared rules

"A system of state exists when there are states that are in regular interaction with each other"

"A society of states exists when a group of states shares common interests and values, bound by a
common set of rules"

Alexander Wendt
 Suggests there can be three different cultures of anarchy
o Hobbesian World
 Actors are regarded as enemies with no right to exist
o Lockean World
 States as rivals but recognize mutual right to exist
o Kantian World
 States as friends who expect disputes to be settled without violence

Sovereign states
 Territorial units with juridical independence
 Not formally subject to external authroity
 De facto autonomy
o Admonition that states should not intervene in each other's internal affairs
 Have reasonable degree of control over territory

Defining sovereignty
- Interdependence sovereignty refers to the ability of states to control movement across borders

Globalization is eroding sovereignty as states cannot regulate transborder movements of goods, capital,
people, ideas or disease vectors
 Governments cannot confuct effective monetary policy because of international capital flows
 Cannot control knowledge because of the Internet, and health because of migration

"An issue of CONTROL rather than authority"

Domestic sovereignty
 Authority structures within states and their ability to regular behavior
States have always operated in an interdependent international environment

Westphalian/Vattelian sovereignty can be compromised through the voluntary actions of politcial leaders
By exercising international legal sovereingty, their right to make contracts, European decision makers
violated the Westphalian/Vattelian sovereignty of their own polities

Evolutionary game theory

 Assumes that actors are rational but myopic

Definition
-Area of land that is under a jurisdiction of the state
-Area of jurisdiction that a nation is responsible for

Challenges
 Security
 Regulation of transborder movements coming into territory (people, goods, capital)
o Immigration policies
 Abiding by international
o Cyberspace
o Existing practices in conflict with international law
 Overlapping boundaries

Several nations in one state or several states in one nation

Jews -

State of the state

 Is break down social systems
 State as unit of analysis and international state system as level of analysis in international
relations
 Reproduction of the states as "the structure of political authorty with a monopoly of organised
violence, when it comes