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NATION STATE
> population having a
> It exercises authority
common language and > Nation and state over a specific
literature, a common are closely related population, called its
tradition and history, because it is citizens
common customs, and a nationalism that > It governs a specific
common consciousness facilitates state
of rights and wrongs, territory
formation
inhabiting a territory of > States become > It has a structure of
a geographic unity independent and government that crafts
> An “imagined sovereign because various rules that
community” of nationalist people follow
> It is limited because it sentiment that
does not go beyond a clamors for this > It has sovereignty over
given “official independence its territory
boundary”
2. List down all the persons mentioned in Lesson 3 of the book, then
enumerate their respective contributions.
Persons Contributions
1. Immanuel Kant > First major thinker of liberal
internationalism
> Likened states in a global system to
people living in a given territory
> Thought of creating/requiring a
government (world government) among
states to prevent lawlessness like that of
people living together
Kant developed his moral philosophy in
three works:
> Groundwork of the Metaphysic of
Morals (1785)
> Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
> Metaphysics of Morals (1797)
In Groundwork, Kant' tries to convert our
everyday, obvious, rational knowledge of
morality into philosophical knowledge.
2. Jeremy Bentham > Coined the term “international” in 1780
> Advocated the creation of
“international law” that would govern
inter-state relations
> Believes that global legislators should
create laws that would create “the
greatest happiness of all nations taken
together”
3. Giuseppe Mazzini > Believed in a Republican government
and proposed a system of free nations
that cooperated with each other to create
an international system
> Argued that if the various Italian mini-
states could unify, one could unify, one
could scale up the system to create, for
example, a United States of Europe
> Believes that free, unified nation-states
should be the basis of global cooperation
> Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian
revolutionary. Born in Genoa in 1807, he
become a member of the secret society
of the carbonari. ... Mazzini believed that
God had intended nations to be the
natural unit of mankind. So Italy could not
continue to be a patchwork of small
states and kingdoms.
4. Woodrow Wilson > Forwarded the principle of self-
determination
> Belief that the world’s nations had a
right to a free, and sovereign government
> Became the most notable advocate for
the creation of the League of Nations
a. Aimed to be a venue for
conciliation and arbitration
to prevent another war
b. Failed due to the breakout
of World War II (between
Axis Powers and Allied
Powers)
c. Despite its failure, it gave
birth to IOs that are still
around today, i.e., World
Health Organization (WHO),
and the International Labor
Organization (ILO)
d. Considered as
concretization of the
concepts of liberal
internationalism