POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ray Kurzweil, World Politics, Global Sources
24 Jul 2018
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Ray kurzweil, law of accelerating returns: the rate of change in a wide variety of evolutionary systems (including the growth of technologies) tends to increase exponentially. Ir = politics b/w nations; politics b/w state actors: a subset of global politics, global politics = affects everyone. We take a broad understanding of politics: politics is the study of power and the balance of power, the politics of things that are not always seen as political i. e. the market. For instance, is the market strictly an economic entity: no i. e. passage of min. wage law is a political act on the market. Looking at the ways in which the state and market interact, co-exist, and indeed are mutually constitutive = a political economy perspective (gpe). Chapter 1 introduced the theme of globalization and places it w/in the context of the most common academic theories of ir.
