The Concept of the State in International Relations

Schuett, Robert; Stirk, Peter M. R.

doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748693627.001.0001

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“…That is because the one feels that they are there only when recognised by others -this is almost the same for the state too. Thus, becoming a member of family requires recognition by other member/s (Stirk & Schuett, 2015). are legally recognise those governments which are having supremacy over their people/s, individuals and groups, within their borders and also having independency from external control.…”

Section: Sovereignty / Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While these two are widely accepted and respected in international community, they are in contrast to each other in a way that almost all newly built states based on the right of self-determination would endanger the principle of the territorial integrity of a state in a way or another. The fact is that the politics of international system and the paradoxes within the international law are shaping the way that the state family is functioning (Stirk & Schuett 2015). The shared interest of powerful states, intended and different interpreting of the international law and neglecting the international moral norms, all make the process of building a new state much more complicated.…”

Section: The Politics and Paradoxes Of The International Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Development and Sustainability of the Concept of the State

2021

PROCEEDINGS OF 6th INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES CONFERENCE (ILIC2021)

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Introduction:The present paper is a research studies the concept of the state and examines its development and sustainability. In general, it is about analysing the concept in a way that it could be understood as an abstract concept through the history of political philosophy. It, moreover, will go under discussion in a way that the elements would be highlighted in more than one perspective. Here, state has been considered from different perspectives as a multi-dimensional and multi-aspect concept. This is to find the contractions and paradoxes in human thoughts and practices on the states. All of these could led the paper into a conclusion that can prove which the state as a concept is developing its appearances and manifestations, and preserving its essence and its core nature at the same time.Background of the Study: The concept of the state has always been the focus point to those who study politics; this is to an extent that politics has been defined as the study of state. The fact is that, the state still is what mainly shapes the life of individuals within a society and also the way that the international relations are functioning. This, simply, means that the state still is an undeniable and a functioning actor. Beside this sustainability, the state has been developed in terms of both its conceptual meanings and functional tasks. However, it is still almost what it was, as an abstract concept. Thus, it can be argued that the essence of the modern and contemporary state is almost the same as the ancient and medieval ones. The conceptual and technological developments of human life have re-designed and re-masked the state; however, it could not change its essence. Nowadays, while the four essential elements of state still are there, state has become a multi-aspect phenomenon which also embraces some more moral, legal, political and civic aspects. The Significance of the Research: The present study aims at analysing why and how the state remains as the same as it was, while almost everything has changed during these millennia. The research tries to rethink, if not redefine, the modern and contemporary understandings of the state as a concept. It discusses the related paradoxes of the concept of the state within philosophy, law and practical politics. In doing so, the research would argue how now statehood can be shaped and to what extent the power and interest of the others are having role in it. Thus, it evaluates the power, as main essence. These discussions would highlight the concept of the states in ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary era, as well as in international law and politics too. It is also about finding the real nature of the state, when it was shaped based on natural theories, developed by theocratic ones, then established by the social contract theories. The Questions: The paper would ask several questions, such as: to what extent the contemporary state could be considered as the extension of modern, medieval and ancient ones? What are developments that the state as a concept has expe...

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Section: Sovereignty / Recognitionmentioning

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Section: The Politics and Paradoxes Of The International Lawmentioning

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The Development and Sustainability of the Concept of the State

2021

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“…'Few concepts in International Relations are as controversial and enduring -yet as neglected and under-theorized -as the concepts of the state and sovereignty'. 9 This assertion, by IR scholar Peter Stirk, reflects the tensions around statehood in IR theory, which endows the territorial nation-state with 'mortal God' status without scrutinizing its conceptual qualities and analytical characteristics. For scholars like Michael Mann, the nation-state in the discipline's early days was considered the embodiment of modernity.…”

Section: The Space Of the Nation-statementioning

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State, power and global order

Rosenboim

2019

International Relations

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This article examines the evolution of international thought through the notion of ‘political space’. It focuses on two important domains of international politics, the nation-state and the global, to reflect on spatial categories in the discipline of International Relations (IR). Since its inception, the concept of the nation-state has dominated mainstream IR theory. Yet an investigation of how international order has been theorized over IR’s first century shows that this era has also been defined by globalist visions of political order. Nowadays, globalization is sometimes seen as the apex of the historical interplay of particularity and universality. The progression towards global political and economic order, however, is today undermined by the resurgence of state-centric political nationalism which seeks to challenge the legitimacy of the global political space. By examining how past international thinkers including Alfred Zimmern, Barbara Ward, Hans Morgenthau, E. H. Carr and John Herz, imagined and interpreted the relations of space and politics in the national and global spheres, this article suggests that spatial thinking offers an insightful approach for theorizing international relations. The article argues that the global and national spaces attain their political meanings through divisions as well as interactions and connections. The focus on divisions, exemplified in the writings of Barbara Ward, helps to make sense of the modus operandi of power in the national and global political spaces by investigating differences, tensions and instability.

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Unravelling Africa’s misgovernment: How state failures fuel the emergence of violent non-state actors: Selected case studies

Mlambo

2023

Cogent Social Sciences

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The Concept of the State in International Relations

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

The Development and Sustainability of the Concept of the State

The Development and Sustainability of the Concept of the State

State, power and global order

Unravelling Africa’s misgovernment: How state failures fuel the emergence of violent non-state actors: Selected case studies

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