POG 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deterritorialization, Arab Spring

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 225
• Professor: Miriam Anderson

Document Summary

De-territorialisation of social, economic and political activity. Some would argue that it is bringing about the demise of the sovereign nation-state a global forces undermine the ability of governments to control or manage their own economies and societies. Large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. The authority of a state to govern itself or another state. Double democratic deficit: limits democracy within states, creates a new global government mechanisms that lack democratic. Individual/human dimension: variables that would affect the leaders" policy choices, important during the crises when only a few individuals involved, these are the variables that would influence the state, so the.