POLS 2401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Civic Nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism, Calvinism
10 Jan 2019
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Globalization: the intensification of economic, political, social, and cultural relations across borders. Transnational global issues: issues that cross political boundaries (country borders), affect individuals in more than one country. Example: air pollution produced by a factory in the us and blown into canada. Non transnational global issues: issues that do not cross borders but affect at large number of individuals throughout the world. Example: ethnic rivalries and human rights violations (occur in a single country but have a far wider impact) A state (country) is self-governing, there is no external group or person that has authority over it. Ability to govern matters within its borders. When each state is sovereign, there is no higher authority above the state. No world government telling states what to do. A treaty that ended the thirty years" war (1618-1648) and recognized many independent, secular political units that would become modern states.
