SYLLABUS ON
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
I. NATURE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
NOTE: This section is intended to provoke thought, to raise questions but
not to answer them, and incidentally to acquaint the student with terms
to be used later and with the scope of the inquiry. Technical details may
be used as illustrations, but it is not intended that either the subject or the
student should be exhausted, at this point.
PROBLEMS TO BEAR IN MIND:
| 1. | Is the existing system of international relations based on logic, or on history, or on geographic, racial, and economic realities? |
| 2. | Do the facts coincide accurately with popular notions of "independence," "sovereignty," "national honor," "national prosperity," "equality of nations," etc. |
| 3. | Are the elements of international relations simple enough to be grasped easily by the "average man" without special study? |
A. PRELIMINARY QUESTION: WHAT ARE "NATIONS"?
References:--* Hicks, The New World Order, 3-16. * Hall, Outline of
International Law, 6-15. # Oppenheim, International Law, Part I, ch. i. Lawrence, International Law, 47-94. # Hershey, "Recognition of de facto
governments", in Amer. Jour. International Law, XIV, 499 ff. # Temperley
, History of the Peace Conference, V. 157-162. S. H. Allen, International Relations. Burns, International Politics. Willoughby, The
Nature of the State, ch. ix. Merriam, History of the Theory of Sovereignty. Laski, Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty. Willoughby
and
Fenwick, Types of Restricted Sovereignty. Le Fur, Races, nationalités, états. Statesman's Year Book for status of individual countries.
Further bibliography in Hershey, Hicks, etc., and Part 2, below.| 1. | In theory:--International relations are relations among "nations," also called powers or sovereign states. A nation, power or sovereign state is defined (popularly) as a government possessing supreme political power over a definite amount of territory; or a people having such a government. All full-fledged nations or sovereign states are (popularly) supposed to possess sovereignty or complete independence, i.e., the right to govern themselves and conduct their own foreign relations without interference by any superior authority. |
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Publication information:
Book title: Syllabus on International Relations.
Contributors: Parker Thomas Moon - Author, Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.) - OrganizationName.
Publisher: Macmillan.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1925.
Page number: 1.
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