session 3 - sovereignty and the nation-state

Question 1

transnational flows..

Accepted Answer

pre exist the nation state and have shaped it

Question 2

what is not a variant of methodological naturalisation

Accepted Answer

territorial limitation, naturalisation, disregarding importance of nationalism

Question 3

slow emergence of nation state: Westphalia (2)

Accepted Answer

moment when the principle of non interference and international law emerged, not as significant as it has played out to be

Question 4

what do the authors not warn about in their conclusion?

Accepted Answer

the nation state is dead and there are theories to support it

Question 5

why did territorial states appear? (2)

Accepted Answer

unlike city states they have enough people to go to war with, unlike empires they have sufficient economic power

Question 6

what is not a reason for the persistence of transnationalism?

Accepted Answer

nation-state formation

Question 7

who are the authors?

Accepted Answer

Andreas Wimmer, Nina Glick-Schiller

Question 8

the territorialisation of nations (2)

Accepted Answer

increases nationalist ideologies and the idea of "us" and "ours", forces people to assimilate to a culture that is not they're not a part of

Question 9

according to the authors, why have social sciences ignored or disregarded the fundamental importance of nationalism? 2

Accepted Answer

social sciences were centered around studying "societies" + how they differ, Marx, Durkeim, Weber thought moderni. + bureaucr. would reduce nationalism

Question 10

what mattered for a sense of community

Accepted Answer

only religion

Question 11

what did the Cold War do (2)

Accepted Answer

tighter policing of border and migration, decolonialosation: growth of nationalism

Question 12

according to the authors methodological nationalism can take different forms. Which of the following is an example? (2)

Accepted Answer

analysing history of Europe through diplomatic relations between FR, GE, UK, writing a story of the UK based on what happened on the British Isles

Question 13

people and institutions before the nation state

Accepted Answer

communities, political institutions

Question 14

how were medieval political institutions centralised/ made up (2)

Accepted Answer

there were free towns people, aristocrats all have different levels of power

Question 15

domestic sovereignty

Accepted Answer

control over a state excised by an authority organised within this state

Question 16

still in the text, what characterises academic approaches between the two wars?

Accepted Answer

ss focused on how societies can better fit into the nationstate container

Question 17

concerning evolution of methodological nationalism, what is the most accurate description of what happened in prewar era

Accepted Answer

science legitimated nations as "ethnic" and primordial, justifying racism

Question 18

interdependence sovereignty

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actual control of movement across state borders, assuming the borders exist

Question 19

religion did not play a part in how society and communities were structured

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

trends of the pre war era (2)

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nation state building, intensive globalisation

Question 21

why did states appear? (2)

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more resources, more wars won = associations survived and became states, needed to extract recourses for war (e.g. from peasants)

Question 22

how did political developments after ww2 influence the understanding of methodological nationalism?

Accepted Answer

welfare capitalism increased the national feeling

Question 23

why was the passport invented?

Accepted Answer

to control who had the rights to go where

Question 24

international legal sovereignty

Accepted Answer

formal recognition by other sovereign states

Question 25

definition of methodological nationalism

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equate society with nation state, national interests = purpose of sosci, scholars maintain identification with their own nation- states, countries as natural units for comparative studies, naturalization of the nation-state by the social sciences

Question 26

how was nationalism not seen in the pre war era

Accepted Answer

racism seen as a social construct

Question 27

professions were transnational

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

medieval forms of authorities were a mess

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True

Question 29

nation state formation (2)

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is violent, reduced the world into "national" and "international"

Question 30

Westphalian sovereignty

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lack of other authority over state other than the domestic authority

Question 31

what is territorial limitation when it comes to methodological nationalism (2)

Accepted Answer

applying the study of social processes form one nationstate onto others, confining the study of social processes to the territory of the nationstate

Question 32

naturalisation when it comes to methodological nationalism (2)

Accepted Answer

is the act of taking nation state boundaries for granted, is the disregard of the effect that borders have on units of analysis

Question 33

what did ww1 do

Accepted Answer

created and increased national sentiment

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