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Review: Not Just Any Global Polity. It is a stateless polity -therefore is powerless and operates on basis of authority It is a democratic polity Its constituent members are sovereign nation-states
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Review: Not Just Any Global Polity • It is a stateless polity -therefore is powerless and operates on basis of authority • It is a democratic polity • Its constituent members are sovereign nation-states -does not intervene in “internal affairs,” unless there are crimes against humanity (genocide)
Political Globalization at the Organizational Level… • International treaties (agreements between nation-states, “international law”) • Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) • International non-governmental organizations (INGOs)
Political Globalization at the Country Level… • (1) What they are: • nation-states are particular kinds of organizational forms borne of the wider world polity
Political Globalization at the Country Level… • (2) What they do: • the basic capacities and characteristics of nation-states are designated by the wider global polity
Political Globalization at the Country Level… • (3) How they interrelate: • the rules of nation-state interaction are set by the wider global polity
Laws of War • For example… • Protect both combatants and noncombatants from unnecessary suffering; • Safeguard fundamental human rights of persons who fall into the hands of the enemy, particularly prisoners of war, the wounded and sick, and civilians; • Facilitate the restoration of peace.