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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?
Katie Brown

Think Again: Sovereignty - By Stephen D. Krasner | Foreign Policy - 24 views

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shared by Katie Brown on 10 Sep 12 - No Cached
    • Katie Brown
      Katie Brown on 10 Sep 12
       
      I don't understand what this word means. Can anyone help me find a good definition? 
    • Claudia Westwood
      Claudia Westwood on 12 Sep 12
       
      Its like an organization or union that affects multiple countries, like the European Union which affects all of Europe
nathandickson

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.
jake cohen

Think Again: Sovereignty - By Stephen D. Krasner | Foreign Policy - 28 views

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  • Some political leaders seized upon the principles of the Protestant Reformation as a way to legitimize secular political authority.
    • Beatrice Keyzer-Pollard
      Beatrice Keyzer-Pollard on 05 Sep 12
       
      What does this mean?
    • Katy Field
      Katy Field on 13 Sep 12
       
      This is like the idea we talked about in class (check your notes under star question #2): that leaders who were NOT approved of by the church were using Martin Luther's ideas to defend why they should still be leaders even though the church didn't pick them.
  • The sectarian controversies of the 16th and 17th centuries were perhaps more politically consequential than any subsequent transnational flow of ideas.
    • jake cohen
      jake cohen on 05 Sep 12
       
      What does this mean?
    • Katy Field
      Katy Field on 13 Sep 12
       
      sectarian= religious groups or sects It's referring to how Protestants & Catholics were fighting a lot in the 16th & 17th centuries, and the author's claiming that those conflicts of IDEAS influenced POLITICS more than most other ideas that have spread since then.
    • jake cohen
      jake cohen on 19 Sep 12
       
      thank you
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