📌BALANCE OF POWER :
🔸 This term has developed no clear meaning due to multiple interpretations available.
🔸However, balance of power as a concept in international relations was used from the sixteenth century to early twentieth century, to describe an instrumentof policy to prevent power dominance.
🔸The European state system from 1815 to 1914 was an example of the use of BOP as an instrument to curb the quest for hegemonic ambitions.
🔸Hedley Bull asserted that BOP has prevented the formation of a universal empire through conquest
🔸 This term has developed no clear meaning due to multiple interpretations available.
🔸However, balance of power as a concept in international relations was used from the sixteenth century to early twentieth century, to describe an instrumentof policy to prevent power dominance.
🔸The European state system from 1815 to 1914 was an example of the use of BOP as an instrument to curb the quest for hegemonic ambitions.
🔸Hedley Bull asserted that BOP has prevented the formation of a universal empire through conquest
📌COLD WAR :
🔸The term was coined by HB Scope, who was an American journalist. Walter
Lipmann popularised the term, and stated that Cold War describes a situation where there is no war, yet no peace.
🔸It is a term that signified the global ideological tensions in the world created in the aftermath of the World War II by the US and the Soviet Union.
🔸The term was coined by HB Scope, who was an American journalist. Walter
Lipmann popularised the term, and stated that Cold War describes a situation where there is no war, yet no peace.
🔸It is a term that signified the global ideological tensions in the world created in the aftermath of the World War II by the US and the Soviet Union.
📌CIVIL WAR :
🔸A civil war is an internal state of violence within a nation where two or more factions fight to take over control of the political or legal apparatus of the state.
🔸There are three broad reasons as to why a civil war may happen. A civil war could happen to end colonialism; break away from a state and lastly, to achieve a reunion of separated states.
🔸In case of colonialism, there could be a civil war when some people in a colony favour an end to colonialism while a significant body intends to support colonial rule for the fear that the anticolonial insurgents could establish a political and an economic order that may affect those people.
🔸A civil war is an internal state of violence within a nation where two or more factions fight to take over control of the political or legal apparatus of the state.
🔸There are three broad reasons as to why a civil war may happen. A civil war could happen to end colonialism; break away from a state and lastly, to achieve a reunion of separated states.
🔸In case of colonialism, there could be a civil war when some people in a colony favour an end to colonialism while a significant body intends to support colonial rule for the fear that the anticolonial insurgents could establish a political and an economic order that may affect those people.
📌 COLONIALISM :
🔸Colonialism is a form of imperialism where one country tries to control the politics and economy of another country.
🔸A country is made into a colony by a mother country, whereby the territory that gets colonised becomes a subordinate and servile country. The period from fifteenth to nineteenth century saw Portugal, British, France,
Holland and Spain colonising the Americas, Asia and Africa.
🔸In the present context, neo-
colonialism is a term used to signify domination by developed countries of post colonial independent states. Similarly, internal colonialism as a term is used when a peripheral region is treated as a subordinate by an economically dominant segment of the state.
🔸Colonialism is a form of imperialism where one country tries to control the politics and economy of another country.
🔸A country is made into a colony by a mother country, whereby the territory that gets colonised becomes a subordinate and servile country. The period from fifteenth to nineteenth century saw Portugal, British, France,
Holland and Spain colonising the Americas, Asia and Africa.
🔸In the present context, neo-
colonialism is a term used to signify domination by developed countries of post colonial independent states. Similarly, internal colonialism as a term is used when a peripheral region is treated as a subordinate by an economically dominant segment of the state.
📌DETERRENCE :
🔸In a simplistic sense, deterrence means a situation where a person A may seek a certain behaviour from person B. If person B does not display the desired behaviour or tries to deviate from the desired behaviour, then person A can deter person B from behaving in an unacceptable manner by threatening person B with punishment.
🔸The basic idea of deterrence is to issue a threat to prevent any undesirable behaviour from another state.
🔸Deterrence is a special form of a power relationship where an imposer may make a threat upon a target whose behaviour the impostor wishes to oppose. Thus, deterrence is all about negative sanctions.
🔸In a simplistic sense, deterrence means a situation where a person A may seek a certain behaviour from person B. If person B does not display the desired behaviour or tries to deviate from the desired behaviour, then person A can deter person B from behaving in an unacceptable manner by threatening person B with punishment.
🔸The basic idea of deterrence is to issue a threat to prevent any undesirable behaviour from another state.
🔸Deterrence is a special form of a power relationship where an imposer may make a threat upon a target whose behaviour the impostor wishes to oppose. Thus, deterrence is all about negative sanctions.
📌 MEANING OF EXILE IN IR :
🔸A situation where a person or group of persons is banished from one place to another. Though it is mostly viewed as a punishment, it could be either self-imposed or enforced.
📌 MEANING OF Extradition IN IR:
🔸It is a legal term that signifies a situation or a process where one state hands over a fugitive to another state. To facilitate the transfer of persons, an extradition treaty is required. In the case of an absence of an extradition treaty, there is no duty upon a state under the international law to undertake extradition.
🔸A situation where a person or group of persons is banished from one place to another. Though it is mostly viewed as a punishment, it could be either self-imposed or enforced.
📌 MEANING OF Extradition IN IR:
🔸It is a legal term that signifies a situation or a process where one state hands over a fugitive to another state. To facilitate the transfer of persons, an extradition treaty is required. In the case of an absence of an extradition treaty, there is no duty upon a state under the international law to undertake extradition.
📌 FAILED NATIONS STATES:
🔸During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union extended aid and support to other states with an intention to contain each other.
🔸As the Cold War ended, the term called failed nation state began to emerge and it signifies those states that could not survive without an aid.
🔸During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union extended aid and support to other states with an intention to contain each other.
🔸As the Cold War ended, the term called failed nation state began to emerge and it signifies those states that could not survive without an aid.
📌FOREIGN AID :
🔸It is a tool of economic diplomacy where the donor state may use monetary instrument to achieve certain policy goals within the recipient state.
🔸The most important factor in this scenario is the capability that the donor state needs to possess to assert economic influence on the recipient state.
🔸The capabilities are often measured as surplus national resource. At times, foreign aid could be used as a power instrument when it is used by a state actor to reward a behaviour of another state after removal of sanctions.
🔸It is a tool of economic diplomacy where the donor state may use monetary instrument to achieve certain policy goals within the recipient state.
🔸The most important factor in this scenario is the capability that the donor state needs to possess to assert economic influence on the recipient state.
🔸The capabilities are often measured as surplus national resource. At times, foreign aid could be used as a power instrument when it is used by a state actor to reward a behaviour of another state after removal of sanctions.
📌FREE TRADE ( RELATED TO LAISSEZ-FAIRE )
🔸 It is a form of trading system which involves two actors where the trade of goods happens between the two without any restrictions. It indicates the abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
🔸Any form of free trade promotes competition and Efficiency and therefore is beneficial from an economic point of view.
🔸Free trade not only benefits a trader but also the consumers because traders through free trade can access foreign markets while the consumers can get access to imported goods.
🔸 It is a form of trading system which involves two actors where the trade of goods happens between the two without any restrictions. It indicates the abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
🔸Any form of free trade promotes competition and Efficiency and therefore is beneficial from an economic point of view.
🔸Free trade not only benefits a trader but also the consumers because traders through free trade can access foreign markets while the consumers can get access to imported goods.
📌 GENOCIDE :
🔸 Genocide means the systematic extermination or mass killings of specific groups of people.
🔸Normally, genocide is much broader than simple mass killings and may involve acts like starvation, forced resettlement and even mass deportations, as in case of
the Holocaust, which wiped out a significant ratio of European Jews.
🔸In December, 1948, the UN General Assembly has passed a Genocide Convention and it came into force in January, 1951.
🔸As per the second article of the genocide convention, genocide means destruction in whole or in part, of a national, ethical, racial or religious group
🔸 Genocide means the systematic extermination or mass killings of specific groups of people.
🔸Normally, genocide is much broader than simple mass killings and may involve acts like starvation, forced resettlement and even mass deportations, as in case of
the Holocaust, which wiped out a significant ratio of European Jews.
🔸In December, 1948, the UN General Assembly has passed a Genocide Convention and it came into force in January, 1951.
🔸As per the second article of the genocide convention, genocide means destruction in whole or in part, of a national, ethical, racial or religious group
📌 GEOPOLITICS :
🔸Geopolitics is a method of undertaking foreign policy analysis which tries to explain the political behavior of the state on the basis of the use of geographical variables.
🔸Geopolitics is a dynamic concept. A country may not be as geopolitically important today but may become so in future.
🔸For example, since the end of the World War II, the state of West Asia, for instance, Saudi Arabia, has been geopolitically important due to the fact that it possessed an extremely important resource in the form of oil and is located near the sea, allowing for easy trade of oil.
🔸Geopolitics is a method of undertaking foreign policy analysis which tries to explain the political behavior of the state on the basis of the use of geographical variables.
🔸Geopolitics is a dynamic concept. A country may not be as geopolitically important today but may become so in future.
🔸For example, since the end of the World War II, the state of West Asia, for instance, Saudi Arabia, has been geopolitically important due to the fact that it possessed an extremely important resource in the form of oil and is located near the sea, allowing for easy trade of oil.
✏️ GREAT POWER
♦️This term is used in the theory of realism by realist scholars and it signifies the ranking of the global states in terms of their economic and military capabilities they possess.
♦️The term called ‘great powers’ found its first written mention in the Treaty of Chaumont in 1817, as, by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and Russia were granted the great power status for the first time.
♦️ In 1944, a foreign policy and IR scholar named William Thornton Rickert Fox replaced the term ‘great powers’ with ‘superpowers’ and since then, the US, Britain, France, Russia and China have been given the status of superpowers.
♦️This term is used in the theory of realism by realist scholars and it signifies the ranking of the global states in terms of their economic and military capabilities they possess.
♦️The term called ‘great powers’ found its first written mention in the Treaty of Chaumont in 1817, as, by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and Russia were granted the great power status for the first time.
♦️ In 1944, a foreign policy and IR scholar named William Thornton Rickert Fox replaced the term ‘great powers’ with ‘superpowers’ and since then, the US, Britain, France, Russia and China have been given the status of superpowers.
✏️GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY
♦️It is a term that has been used with respect to foreign policy since the nineteenth century.
♦️Its first mention was seen in the British foreign policy where the British navy would often be dispatched in a particular region to coerce a state or a ruler to pay debts. The British even dispatched naval squadrons to enforce punishments and restore order.
♦️ Thus, over a period of time, gunboat diplomacy as a term came to be used for naval ships which are used for signalling intentions to an adversary state and are used for power projection.
♦️It is a term that has been used with respect to foreign policy since the nineteenth century.
♦️Its first mention was seen in the British foreign policy where the British navy would often be dispatched in a particular region to coerce a state or a ruler to pay debts. The British even dispatched naval squadrons to enforce punishments and restore order.
♦️ Thus, over a period of time, gunboat diplomacy as a term came to be used for naval ships which are used for signalling intentions to an adversary state and are used for power projection.
✏️ HEGEMONY
♦️Hegemony in the international system is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.
♦️A state with adequate capabilities is called a hegemonic power in relationship to which the other states in the system define their relationship.
♦️When other states define their relationship with a hegemonic power, they could display a behaviour of opposition, display indifference, or even practise acquiescence with the hegemonic state.
♦️Hegemony in the international system is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.
♦️A state with adequate capabilities is called a hegemonic power in relationship to which the other states in the system define their relationship.
♦️When other states define their relationship with a hegemonic power, they could display a behaviour of opposition, display indifference, or even practise acquiescence with the hegemonic state.
✏️HOT PURSUIT
♦️It is a legal doctrine mostly associated with maritime law. Nowadays, it is used to cover activities on land where one state may reserve the right to pursue an offender outside its own territorial limits in national interest.
♦️ In hot pursuit, the authorised agents of a state begin the action in the jurisdiction of the violated party and engage in the operation till the offender is broken off.
♦️It is a legal doctrine mostly associated with maritime law. Nowadays, it is used to cover activities on land where one state may reserve the right to pursue an offender outside its own territorial limits in national interest.
♦️ In hot pursuit, the authorised agents of a state begin the action in the jurisdiction of the violated party and engage in the operation till the offender is broken off.
✏️ IMMIGRATION
♦️It involves the movement of people from (one place to the other) from one state to another state in search of better employment and living conditions.
♦️It is different from a refugee wave. In immigration, the immigrant moves voluntarily rather than having been forced or evicted due to political or natural circumstances, which is the case with a refugee.
♦️ In some countries, the immigrants do pose a cultural threat to the receiving state due to differences in their ideologies and beliefs.
♦️Immigrants do play an important economic role in a society as they send remittances back to their home state.
♦️It involves the movement of people from (one place to the other) from one state to another state in search of better employment and living conditions.
♦️It is different from a refugee wave. In immigration, the immigrant moves voluntarily rather than having been forced or evicted due to political or natural circumstances, which is the case with a refugee.
♦️ In some countries, the immigrants do pose a cultural threat to the receiving state due to differences in their ideologies and beliefs.
♦️Immigrants do play an important economic role in a society as they send remittances back to their home state.
✏️ REVOLUTION
♦️A revolution means a sudden change in the system of governance of a state through violence. A revolution also signifies a change in the value system of the state.
♦️For the Marxist and Leninists, a revolution involves a socio-economic change in the society.
♦️Scholars like Edward Hallett Carr and Martin Wight feel that revolutions often cause instability and thus are not conducive to maintain order in the system.
♦️A revolution means a sudden change in the system of governance of a state through violence. A revolution also signifies a change in the value system of the state.
♦️For the Marxist and Leninists, a revolution involves a socio-economic change in the society.
♦️Scholars like Edward Hallett Carr and Martin Wight feel that revolutions often cause instability and thus are not conducive to maintain order in the system.
✏️ PARADIPLOMACY
♦️In 1990, an American scholar named John Kincaid proposed the concept of paradiplomacy. If we try to define paradiplomacy in the Indian context, then it is a concept where we analyse and study the role played by a local government or a state government to enhance diplomatic ties with countries in the neighborhood.
♦️Paradiplomacy can allow a state to promote trade, culture, flow of economic ideas, and even outsource business and so on. In the recent times, paradiplomacy has been activated by India between India’s north eastern states and Bangladesh when Sheikh Hasina visited India in
2017.
♦️In 1990, an American scholar named John Kincaid proposed the concept of paradiplomacy. If we try to define paradiplomacy in the Indian context, then it is a concept where we analyse and study the role played by a local government or a state government to enhance diplomatic ties with countries in the neighborhood.
♦️Paradiplomacy can allow a state to promote trade, culture, flow of economic ideas, and even outsource business and so on. In the recent times, paradiplomacy has been activated by India between India’s north eastern states and Bangladesh when Sheikh Hasina visited India in
2017.
🖍️SPHERE OF INFLUENCE :
♦️It refers to a situation where an outside state exercises particular economic or military exclusiveness over another region.
♦️ In the context of a sphere of
influence, there is no sovereign control over the other territory.
♦️When one state exercisesits sphere of influence over another state, it restricts the rights of the other power to exercise influence and also imposes limitations on the autonomy of states on which influence is exercised.
♦️It refers to a situation where an outside state exercises particular economic or military exclusiveness over another region.
♦️ In the context of a sphere of
influence, there is no sovereign control over the other territory.
♦️When one state exercisesits sphere of influence over another state, it restricts the rights of the other power to exercise influence and also imposes limitations on the autonomy of states on which influence is exercised.