The Problems with Westphalian Nation-State System

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We all associate ourselves with various identities such as Indians, Chinese, Pakistani, Americans, Canadians, French, British and much more. Why do you think we all associate with all these more? Are there any other identities which people associate with?  The identities which I mentioned before are relatively new compared to other identities such as religion, language, caste, and various other identities. It is not to say that people never had such feelings towards nations or the state. But the idea of loyalty and love for the motherland was very important which offset various other identities. The question we are arriving at is what is the motherland, who made and how it formed.  What we refer to today as a Nation or Country refers to what we know in political science as a Nation-State. Today almost all the countries we know are categorised Nation-States and some even as State-Nations. International Relations and Political Science suggest that states are the most important a...
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News capsule for the Fortnight- October (1st-15th)

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 Following are the top news for the fortnight (1-15).  If you wish to follow and get notifications of future articles, you can signup using the email on the left sidebar. 


Kerala 

  • Over 961 teachers in Engineering are not qualified enough to teach as per a CAG Report. 
  • Kerala's schools and colleges are fully set to open on October 18th. 
  • Fuel prices cross 105 Rs in the state for the first time. 
  • Woman gives birth on London-Kochi flight. The flight was diverted to Frankfurt for an emergency landing. 
  • Govt. decides to proceed with the K-Rail project and the scientific study for the same. 
  • Govt. release KAS rank list.
  • DU professor comes up with allegations of Mark Jihad.  
  • State warns of cutting electricity usage amidst the shortage. 
  • Heavy rain widespread across the state 
  • Govt drops controversial Athirapally waterfalls. 
  • Suraj who killed his wife using Cobra sentenced to life imprisonment. 
  • Malabar Devoswom Board takes over Mattanur Mahadeva Temple. 
  • Superstar Nedumudi Venu passes away at his residence in Trivandrum. 
India


  • Education Minister says to become an Assistant Professor it is not compulsory to have a PhD. 
  • Indian Team visits Pakistan for Anti-Terror SCO operations training. 
  • India decides to construct a new port in Sri Lanka in order to contest China for $700 Million. 
  • India's LJP party got its symbol frozen because of the feud between two factions of the party. 
  • PM Modi talked about 5 Cr. houses getting water connection due to Jal Shakti Mission. 
  • India-UK updates travel guidelines amidst a feud between both on Vaccine Certificates. 
  • Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested by NCB in Mumbai in a drug raid case. 
  • TMC wins the majority of the seats in the West Bengal Bypoll. CM Mamata Banerjee wins from Bhawanipur constituency by a massive margin. 
  • 8 people died in UP's Lakhimpur-Kheri, during a farmer's meet. Son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni is accused in the case and is taken into custody. Opposition parties visiting the place are blocked. 
  • NDA allows women to appear for the NDA exam. 
  • Varun Gandhi, BJP leader criticizes the state and centre on the Farmers issue. 
  • US Senate passes the bill to raise the Debt limit. 
  • Bangalore airport flooded on the 11th. 
  • COVAXIN granted permission for usage on children. 
  • DMK and allies sweep local body polls in TN.
  • Ex-PM Manmohan Singh was admitted to the hospital due to Dengue fever. 
World/International


  • Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko rejects the abuse of power and human rights violations in the country. 
  • China's national day was marked by heightened tensions between China and Taiwan. 
  • China releases two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor after Canada's release of Huawei. 
  • US hits 700,000 deaths a day amidst the third wave and booster shots being made available to the public. 
  • Blast occurs in Afghanistan in a Shia mosque killing 
  • Pandora papers investigation by media houses makes a sensation across the world. Over 300 Indians and 700 Pakistanis were also named. Prominent Indians include Anil Ambani and Sachin Tendulkar.
  • Cyclone Shaheen strikes Oman, massive rain occurred in Gulf. 
  • Taliban is accused of killing 15 hazaras. 
  • US-China agrees to comply with the Taiwan agreement amidst. 
  • Over 19 US states enact laws that make it hard for people to vote. 
  • Inquiry by French authorities reveal over 216,000 children were assaulted by the Church 
  • WHO approves the first vaccine for Malaria. 
  • NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang leaves the Democratic party and sets its own Forward party. 
  • Dubai World Expo starts and will last for six months.
  • Pakistan shifts ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Ahmed from Kabul to Peshawar but the decision by Islamabad is still pending. 
  • Access to healthcare is designated as a human right by UNHRC. 
  • India gets elected to UNHRC three times in a row. 
  • The city of Sydney opens after a month of lockdown. 
  • Malaysia and Singapore ease travel restrictions in the country.  
  • CIA establishes a new division overlooking China. 
  • Iraq proceeds for a historic election.
  • Texas State Governor Greg Abbot bans vaccine mandates in the state. 
  • Serbia's minorities write an open letter to Antony Blinken against Serbia's expansionist policies. 
  • Danish man is held for killing five people in a bow and arrow. 
  • Global Hunger Index is out for the year 2021. India ends up at 101. 
Nobel Prizes 
  • Physics-Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and the other half to Giorgio Parisi for Climate Change 
  • Chemistry-  Benjamin List and David MacMillan for building Molecules 
  • Peace- Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa for covering Russia and the Philippines respectively. 
  • Medicine- David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for temperature and touch receptors 
  • Literature- Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”



Technology 


  • Honqui a Chinese car brand enters the European market.
  • Sex education Netflix series is out in India. 
  • Netflix's series Squid Game is now an Internet sensation. 
  • Former Facebook Moderator testifies against its policies which affect the social media at large. CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims these charges are not true. 
  • Massive six-hour outage hits Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp across various countries. The error was supposedly occurred in the BGP protocol which had to be manually corrected in Facebook's silicon valley data centres. 
  • Redesigned Windows 11 released.
  • Jio was down just two days after Facebook was down, announces complimentary offers.   
  • RBI raises the limit for IMPS transactions to five lakh rupees. 
  • End to End Encryption is to be released on WhatsApp soon. 
  • India is at an acute shortage of power amidst the shortage of Coal in the country. 
  • Tatas officially gets the bid to buy Air India and operate it. 
  • Qatar Petroleum changes its name to Qatar Energy. 
  • Adani ports will refuse to accept shipments from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. 
  • Snapchat faces a slight outage on the 13th.
  • Amazon Great Indian Festival concluded successfully in the first week. 
  • India starts the Indian Space Association for collaborating between private firms and institutions. 
  • Twitch suffered a massive data breach. 
  • Spotify Rolled Out Podcast Polls And Q&As 
  • Facebook starts audio rooms for podcasters. 
  • Southwest and Delta Airlines cancels hundreds of flights. 
  • Microsoft-LinkedIn to end its operations in India. 

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