GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Absolute Monarchy
Document Summary
The globalization debate: the international v. the global: defining globalization- the widening, deepening, speeding up, and growing impact of worldwide interconnectedness. , interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary life, from social to spiritual, political to cultural, criminal to military. Frequent disagreement: how globalization is best conceptualized (is it political. Etc. : when it began, its casual dynamics, its consequences (is it making us all alike, different, etc. , has produced a debate both about and over globalization. Globalist v. internationalist ( realist ) perspective: realist view internationalists : presupposes that world is dependent on factor that are essentially geopolitical. Factors include: most importantly states and the institutions that maintain the relations between and among them (un, transnational, etc. ) These institutions are stable and definable and serve to maintain the balance of power between and among states. So states don"t go out of control/ have too much power (states are selfish) What nationalism requires: narrative of a common history.
