GEOG 2200 Lecture 2: Week 6 Lecture 2 GEOG 2200 2013 Notes.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 2200
• Professor: John Milton

Document Summary

The state is presently under pressure from two sides. There are the pressures of economic integration associated with the processes of globalization. Then there are the pressures exerted by separatist movements from within. further complicating this is the emergence of transnational structures of various degrees of economic, social and political integration of member states. The world has undergone dramatic changes since the second world war. Taken together, we see the state as under pressure from both processes of integration and disintegration. The emergence of supranational and international organizations can be traced back to the end of the second world war. This period marked the foundation of the world economy as we know it. it was a system without the economic barriers of the trading/ colonial empires. The emergence of this system required two conditions: the establishment of an orderly world internally peaceful and secure; and.