THE GLOBAL
INTERSTATE
SYSTEM
(TOPIC 3)
WHAT IS GLOBAL
INTERSTATE SYSTEM
Is the whole system of human interactions.
The modern world system is structured
political as an interstate system.
a system of competing and allying states.
Political scientist commonly call this the
international system, and it is the main focus
of the field of international Relations.
WHAT IS INTERSTATE SYSTEM?
It is the fundamental basis of the competitive
commodity economy at the global system
level.
a system of international relations
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Is the study of interconnectedness
of politics, economics, and law on a
global level.
THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM IN
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Interstate relations are those authoritative
actions, understanding, or commitments of
the governmental authorities, the leaders of
one state to or with the governmental
authorities of another state or its group or
citizens, either bilaterally or through
international organizations.
STATE
Traditionally subject of global politics-viewed as
the “institution that creates warfare and sets
economic policies for a country”
a political unit that has authority over its own
affairs Treaty of Westphalia 1648-started the
notion of nation-state and idea of state
sovereignity.
Thirty years war between the major
continental powers of Europe
a system that avert wars in the future
recognizing that the Treaty signers exercise
complete control over their domestic affairs an
swear not to meddle in each other affairs.
Liberty, equality, fraternity
suggested “replacements” for nation states;
1. Regional alliances and worldwide
organizations
2. regional and int’l economic bonds
3. Private capital groups
4. Non-state organizations
Global Governance in the 21st Century
Factors that lead to emergence of
global governance:
1. declining power of states
2. Vast flows of all sorts of things across borders
3. Mass migration
4. Horrendous events within nation states
5. Global problems
THE PURPOSE OF GLOBAL
INTERSTATE SYSTEM
The Interstate itself is the fundamental basisi of
the competitive commodity economy at the
system level. Thus the interaction of world market
and state system is fundamental to an
understanding of capitalist development and its
potential transformation into a more collectively
rational system.
INTERNATIONALISM
The Westphalian and Concert systems divided
the world into seperate, sovereign entities.
comes in different forms
Divided into two broad categories: liberal
internationalism and socialist internationalism.
• Liberal Internationalism
liberal internationalism, cluster of ideas
derived from the belief that
international progress is possible,
where progress is defined as movement
toward increasing levels of harmonious
cooperation between
political communities.
Liberalism is about everyone having
rights, but only capitalists having power
through their control of production, their
vast stores of money, and (through
those two things) their control of
national governments.
• Social Internationalism
- socialist internationalism is about
solidarity between working class
people, the promotion of authentic
democratic systems, and reducing or
eliminating the power of capitalists,
monarchs, and other authoritarians.
German Philosopher Immanuel Kant
First major thinker of liberal internationalism (18th
century)
- Likened states in global system to people living in a
given territory.
- international system would be chaotic
- the citizens of the countries must give up some
freedoms and establish a continuously growing
states consisting of various nations which
ultimately include the nations of the world
- Kant imagine a form of global government.
British Philosopher Jeremy Bentham (who
coined the word “internationalism” in 1780)
- International law
- objective global legislators should aim to
purpose legislation that would create “the
greatest happiness of all nations taken
together”.
Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini (first thinker to
reconcile nationalism with liberal internationalism,
19th century)
- Metternich system
- He believe in a republican government (without
kings and queens and hereditary succession) and
propose a system of free nations that cooperated
each other to create an international system.
- a United states of Europe Mazzini was the
Nationalist, Internationalist, who believes that free,
unified nation states should be the basis of Global
cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson (United States President,
1913-1921)
- one of the 20th century’s most prominent internationalist
- he forwarded the principle of self determination – the belief
that the world’s nation had a right to a free, and sovereign
government
- democracies
- League of Nations
- At the end of World War I in 1918, he push to transform the
league into a venue of conciliation and arbitration to prevent
another war
- awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1919
- League gave birth to some of the more task-specific
international organization that are till around until today
- World Health Organizations (WHO) and the International
Labour Organization (ILO).
The League was the concentration of the
concepts of liberal internationalism.
- it emphasize the need to form common
international principles (Kant)
- it enshrined the principles of
cooperation and respect among the
nation-states (Mazzini)
- called for democracy and self-
determination (Wilson)
- the League of the Nations principles
survived World War II.
Karl Marx (German socialist philosopher, was also an
internationalist)
- Did not believe nationalism
- believe that any true form of internationalism
should deliberately reject nationalism, which
rooted people in domestic concerns instead of
global ones.
- he did not divide the world into counties, but into
classes
- Capitalist class referred to the owners of factories,
companies, and other “means of production”.
- Proletariat class included those who did not own
the means of production, but instead, work for the
capitalist.
Marx and co-author, Fredrich Engels
- Believe that in socialist revolution seeking to
overthrow the state and alter the economy.
- Proletariat “had no nation”
- they opposed nationalism because they believe
it prevented the unification of the Worlds
workers.
- nationalism could make the workers in
individual countries identify with the capitalist
of their countries.
Socialist International (SI)
a union of Europian socialist and a labor parties established in
paris 1889
- Declaration of May 1 as a Labor Day and the creation of
International Womens Day
- initiated the successful campaign for an 8 hour workday
- Russian Revolution of 1917
- Czar Nicholas II overthrown and replaced by a revolutionary
government lead by the Bolshevik Party and its Leader,
Vladimir Lenin
- Union Sovet Socialist Republics (USSR)
- vanguard- a group of a people who are leader of an action
or movements in the society, politics and etc.
- COMMUNIST PARTIES
Vladimir Lenin establish the communist international
(Comintern) in 1919
- Central body for directing Communist Parties all
over the Bolshevisk
Joseph Stalin (Lenin successor, dissolved the
comintern in 1943)
- Communist Information Bureau (Cominform)
Thank You!
REYANNAH JANE V. VILLARIEZ
CARL JAY BAROTIA
BPED-1C