International sysytems

1. History and Theory of
International Relations
Professor:
Ibrahim Koncak
Student:
Sanzhar
Satymbaev

2. INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS
• The pattern of relations between nation-states and non-state
international actors
• States interact within a set of long-established “rules of the game”
governing what is considered a state and how states treat each other.
• Together these rules shape the international system

3. Independent State System
• consists of political entities that each claim to be sovereign—the right
to make both foreign policy and domestic decisions. In Independent
State system an ambitious and rising power considered as a threat to
the independence of other states and cause to the formation of
counterweight coalition and allies.

4. Hegemonic State System
When one or more States control the international system and set
“rules of game”.
Variants of Hegemonic system:
oUnipolarity
oBipolarity
oMultipolarity

5. •Unipolarity - “One pole,” or a single dominant state
such as the United States after the collapse of the
Soviet Union in the early 1990s
•Bipolarity - Two dominant states, such as the United
States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
(1945–1991)
•Multipolarity - Three or more states dominate
international relations, such as the five great
European powers after 1815 (Great Britain, France,
Russia, Austria, and Prussia)

6. Imperial System
• An empire consists of separate societal units associated by regular interaction,
but one among them asserts political supremacy and the others formally or
tacitly accept this claim.
Feudal System (from about the 9th to the 14th centuries)
• Power was decentralized and claimed by a diverse group of governmental units,
only some of which evolved into modern states. Other actors included trading
associations, the great houses of merchant bankers, and local feudal barons. The
one institution to claim universal or global jurisdiction was the pre-Reformation
Christian Church in Rome, now the Roman Catholic Church. As scholars point
out, the feudal system reminds us that the key actors of international politics
have not always been, and in the future may not necessarily be, states.