Chapter 01

How valid is the assumption that human life inside properly organized and well managed states is better than human life outside such states or without states at all?
What did the political change from medieval to modern basically involve?
What were the driving forces behind Western imperial expansion?
What were the driving forces behind decolonization and the emergence of new states in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East?
What is the distinction between juridical statehood and empirical statehood? How important is it?
How did respublica Christiana become a system of sovereign states?
What is international law? How effective is it?
What are the main links between the global state system and the world economy?
Could there truly be international relations if there were no sovereign states.
In the future relationship between globalization and state sovereignty do you expect one side to prevail over the other side, or do you expect the relationship to continue at least for the foreseeable future? Explain.

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