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Module 5 Interstate System

- This lesson discusses the international system and international organizations. It defines the international system as groups of independent states that are interconnected economically and strategically and must consider each other's actions. - The history of the international system progressed from the Peace of Westphalia establishing nation-states, to the emergence of nationalism 1800-1945, to new world orders after World War II including periods of bipolarity and multi-polarity. - The lesson differentiates international from governmental organizations, provides examples of each including the UN, EU, and NGOs, and explains their various purposes in areas like arms control, trade, and humanitarian issues.

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Module 5 Interstate System

- This lesson discusses the international system and international organizations. It defines the international system as groups of independent states that are interconnected economically and strategically and must consider each other's actions. - The history of the international system progressed from the Peace of Westphalia establishing nation-states, to the emergence of nationalism 1800-1945, to new world orders after World War II including periods of bipolarity and multi-polarity. - The lesson differentiates international from governmental organizations, provides examples of each including the UN, EU, and NGOs, and explains their various purposes in areas like arms control, trade, and humanitarian issues.

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The Contemporary

World
Module 5:
Interstate System
Itroduction
• This lesson concentrates on institutions that
govern international relations and the effects of
globalization on governments. The lesson also
differentiates internationalism from globalism.
•Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
• Define interstate or international system.
• Discuss the history of the interstate or international system.
• Discuss international organizations and the various types of
NGOs.
• Differentiate globalism from internationalism.
DISCUSSIO
N
International System
from Encyclopedia of Life Support
Systems (EOLSS)
by Ryūhei Hatsuse
• [An international system] are “groups of
independent states held together by a web of
economic and strategic interests and pressures
so that they are forced to take account of each
other and those which make a conscious social
contract by instituting rules and machinery to
make their relations more orderly and
predictable and to further certain shared
principles and values.”
• – Hedley Ball and Adam Watson -
The Concept of System
• International system
• World system
•International system
• is a concept for analysis or description of
international politics or relations, but therein lies a
sense of prescription for diplomatic or military
action too.
•World system
• is a concept with which to analyze or describe mainly politico-
economic global situations, while its implications for political
action are derived but only indirectly
•International system
• a system of states is formed when two or more states have sufficient contact
between them, and have sufficient impact on one another’s decisions, to
cause them to behave—at least in some measure—as parts of a whole.
•International society
• a society of states exists when a group of states, conscious of certain
common interests and common values, form a society, in the sense that they
conceive themselves to be bound by a common set of rules in their relations
with one another, and share in the working of common institutions.
History of the
International System
from sparknotes.com
1945–Present
New World Orders

1800–1945
Emergence of
Nationalism
1600–1800
Shifting Balances
of Power

1648
The Peace of
Westphalia
Contemporary International Systems
System Number Of Nations Nations With Power Dates
With Power

Unipolar One United States Post-1989

Bipolar Two United States and the 1945–1989


Soviet Union  
Multi-Polar Several United States, United Pre–World War I
Kingdom, France,  
Russia, Germany, Italy,
Japan
United States, European Post-1989
Union, China, India  
International Organizations
International
International
Nongovernmental
Governmental
Organizations
Organizations
(INGOs or, more
(IGOs)
commonly, NGOs).
• IGOs are formed • INGOs are made
when governments up of individuals
make an agreement
or band together.
and are not
Only governments affiliated with
or nation-states governments.
belong to IGOs.
• IGOs and INGOs exist for a variety of
reasons, such as controlling the
proliferation of conventional and nuclear
weapons, supervising trade, maintaining
military alliances, ending world hunger,
and fostering the spread of democracy and
peace, etc.
Name Type Date Members As Of 2006
Founded
Amnesty International INGO 1961 1.8 million members in 150 countries

European Union (EU) IGO 1992 25 states, including the United Kingdom, Sweden,
and Estonia
International Olympic INGO 1894 115 individuals, who represent the IOC in their home
Committee (IOC) countries
Organization of IGO 1960 11 states, including Venezuela, Qatar, and Indonesia
Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC)
Salvation Army INGO 1878 Runs programs in more than 100 countries; has 3.5
million volunteers
Save the Children INGO 1932 Helps children in poverty around the world, including
the United States and Nepal
United Nations (UN) IGO 1946 191 states, including Burkina Faso, Denmark, the
Philippines, and Jamaica
World Bank IGO 1945 Offers loans to more than 100 states, including
Cameroon and Senegal
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