Political Science 2211E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Neoliberalism, Liberal Democracy, Superpower

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2211E
• Professor: Zheger Hassan

Document Summary

The role of technology: low costs of communications and transportation makes the movement of people, ideas, goods, services, and capital faster and less costly. Gives people the ability to become integrated into the global system. The role of the superpower (hegemonic stability theory): two views of hegemon: Unintentional actions: uncoordinated actions of countries overtime has resulted in an increasingly open and interconnected system: this has led to a globalized world, the european union did not deliberately integrate these 27 countries. 1 political integration in the form of regional blocs and international organization (e. g. , Un, eu, au, arab league: represe(cid:374)ted (cid:271)y u(cid:374)ele(cid:272)ted offi(cid:272)ials (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)"t represe(cid:374)t the i(cid:374)terests of (cid:272)itize(cid:374)s. Will it become obsolete: increased political organizations will make it difficult for stats to exercise sovereignty, countries sovereignty was undermined to regional or international institutions, these countries need to make a trade off, of sovereignty for economic benefits.