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Think Again: Sovereignty - By Stephen D. Krasner | Foreign Policy - 16 views

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  • Contemporary pundits
    • jake cohen
      jake cohen on 05 Sep 12
       
      what does this mean?
    • nathandickson
      nathandickson on 06 Sep 12
       
      Contemprorary: A person existing at the same time as another.  pundits: A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit.  
  • often cite the 1648 Peace of Westphalia (actually two separate treaties, Münster and Osnabrück) as the political big bang that created the modern system of autonomous states.
  • Westphalia -- which ended the Thirty Years' War against the hegemonic power of the Holy Roman Empire -- delegitimized the already waning transnational role of the Catholic Church and validated the idea that international relations should be driven by balance-of-power considerations rather than the ideals of Christendom.
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  • But Westphalia was first and foremost a new constitution for the Holy Roman Empire
  • Westphalia established rules for religious tolerance in Germany.
  • All in all, Westphalia is a pretty medieval document, and its biggest explicit innovation -- provisions that undermined the power of princes to control religious affairs within their territories -- was antithetical to the ideas of national sovereignty that later became associated with the so-called Westphalian system.
Katy Field

Think Again: Sovereignty - By Stephen D. Krasner | Foreign Policy - 111 views

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sovereignty treaty of westphalia krasner

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  • Sovereignty was never quite as vibrant as many contemporary observers suggest.
    • Katy Field
      Katy Field on 28 Aug 12
       
      Reading Tip: the first or second sentence of a paragraph is usually the topic sentence. That means it will give you the main idea for that paragraph (the evidence or explanation will follow). In order to get better at taking fewer (but more useful) notes, try reading the entire paragraph without stopping to take notes, then try to paraphrase the main point. If you can't do it- look back at the first sentence again.
  • While the great powers of Europe have eschewed many elements of sovereignty, the United States, China, and Japan have neither the interest nor the inclination to abandon their usually effective claims to domestic autonomy.
  • Although sovereignty might provide little more than international recognition,
  • Hunter Yarbro on 07 Sep 12
     
    Just read page 5 and i barel have any notes because i didnt really know what to write about. Any tips?
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