POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Paris Agreement, Slippery Slope, Top Priority
28 Sep 2017
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How do to the digests: have a thesis, use your article to prove your thesis, themes for #2, sovereignty, nationalism, multiculturalism, citizenship, globalization. Crown corporations: government owned liquor stores in saskatchewan and ontario. They get away with it because they want to preserve their culture: ex. have to educate kids in french. Economic globalization: many corporations have become global and global trade has increased greatly since. 1950: tends to reduce the ability of national governments to manage their own economies. Cultural globalization: advances in communications allow wider distribution of cultural products and values (typically western) around the world. Political globalization: globalization has led to the need for international institutions, united nations, international financial institutions, and global ngos are all examplses. Globalization and the state: although states remain strong, some assert that globalization is eroding their power by, shifting power upward towards global institutions, ex. Increasing the reach of global markets and the power of global corporations: stimulating separatist movements.
