Omongayon. Activity 5 (2-C) CONTEMPORAY WORLD ACTIVITY SHEET
Omongayon. Activity 5 (2-C) CONTEMPORAY WORLD ACTIVITY SHEET
Omongayon. Activity 5 (2-C) CONTEMPORAY WORLD ACTIVITY SHEET
1. What remnants of the Westphalian system can still be felt at this day and age? In what
sense has the world gone beyond the Westphalian system?
- I think, the Westphalian system can actually be seen and felt this era wherein there’s a
lot of factors and circumstances happening along the way in the context of politics and
the state. The Westphalian system of sovereign states that was established in 1648 to
end the long term war between the major continental powers of Europe. This system
gave each state a privilege to make its own decision specifically in political, economic,
and social aspect. These actions are commonly seen in today’s government in every
country.
2. What are the differences between liberal and socialist internationalism? What are
their strengths and weaknesses?
- Liberal internationalism is a foreign policy doctrine that argues that liberal states
should intervene in other sovereign states in order to pursue liberal objectives.
Such intervention can include both military invasion and humanitarian aid. Socialist
internationalism on the other hand, aimed to spread the idea of social democracy
around the world. They believe that they can achieve goals through revolution.
4.2 What made the European more successful than usual multilateral cooperation?
- According to the article provided, there was an argument that the Cultural Anthropologist,
Arjun Appadurai insisted which was “nation-state, as a complex modern political form”
while management consultant Kenichi Ohmae claimed that “nation-state as a nostalgic
fiction”. Also according to Christian Joppke, he has entangled this compound term, “Qua
states, nation-states are territorial organizations characterized by the monopolization of
legitimate violence, qua nations, nation-states are memberships associations with a
collective identity and a democratic pretention to rule – enforcing political communities”.
4.3 How does the UN improve the relationships among nation states?
-The United Nations promotes and strengthens democratic institutions and practices
around the world. They promote and implemented human rights etc.
Giuseppe Mazzini
- The League of Nations, according to Vladimir Lenin was a unification “on paper only;
in reality it is a group of beasts of prey, who only fight one another and do not at all
trust one another”
- Vladimir Lenin held true to an internationalist line. He tied the very fate of the
Russian Revolution, even in its bourgeois-democratic form, to the European socialist
revolution. An internationalist to his very core, he had no time for petty nationalism
within the revolutionary party.