HT, S7

Why is the date 1648 important for our discussion?

• sovereingty

• the rise of the modern nation state and building international law

• treaties of Wesfalia

• all of the above

Council of Vienna (date, year, please)

for the last 400 or so years we think of a modern state

• as an ideal state for a human being

• within certain geographical and physical boundaries, such as a river or a mountain range

• as something that is desirable

• as something that is difficult to defent

UN was established in (date, year, please)

There are (at least from the point of view of classical sociology) functions a state must perform: to maintain its physical boundaries and maintain law and order within these boundaries (according to:__ please, insert a name of a famous sociologist)

A state may be defined by its institutions (Yes/No)

A state is defined

• minimum by its institutions

• minimum by its institutions (legislature, judiciary, executive) and political culture and values

The fact that state has institutions (legislature, executive, judiciary) does not make automatically define it

• True; also shared values, language, history, culture in the end make certain particular a state a state

• True

• True; also shared values, language, history, culture in the end make certain particular a state a state, which gives context for performance (also of institutions)

• False

States need for the identity ------

• Symbols, memory, traditions, inlcluding festivities, food, current practices, importance of which go way back, way back in history

• Symbols, such as flag

• Symbols, memory, traditions, including festivities, food, current practices, importance of which are immediate

So... socio-cultural aspects of security manifest

• in the fact that attack on identity (language, religion, cultural traditions, landmarks, symbols) destroys individual psyche and ultimately a - state

• in the fact that attack on identity (language, religion, cultural traditions, landmarks, symbols) destroys individual psyche and ultimately a - state (thus we discuss the issue here)

• in the fact that attack on identity (language, religion, cultural traditions, landmarks, symbols) destroys individual psyche