PSCI 2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mcworld, Deterritorialization, Facilitated Communication

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2601
• Professor: Mark Pearcey

Document Summary

Means many diff things to diff people. Three perspectives: gilpin: integration of world economy. Global capitalism and role in intertwining diff markets: sholte: deterritorialization or growth of superterriorial relations between people. Neo-medievalism, overlapping elements powers: harvey: time-space compression. How tech has facilitated communication is real time, access info everywhere instantaneous. Foreign exchange markets: average day trillion currency traded each day. Transnational corporations: 70% of world trade (not states) Impacts of shocks bc integration: nafta, brexit: political. Non-state actors have assumed higher levels of importance and influence over past ~25 years (ex. More from high (security, economy) to low politics (health, environment) High dominated cold war thinking, low is now forefront of diplomacy (states (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t address o(cid:374) o(cid:449)(cid:374), need non-state actors and work between states, ex. Mcworld: idea that cultural globalization is dominated by western influence. Accessibility increase (esp. with end of cold war)