POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michael Walzer, Global Politics, Global Governance

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Tyler Attwood

Document Summary

Global politics talks about everything as a whole and includes non state actors. It includes a more active perspective of the modern world. The ways in which the state and market interact. It is not always an impact of politics on economics but can be reversed as well. Diagenes of sinope: i am a citizen of the world . He is a globalist rather than a nationalist and is tied to humanity rather than his state. Things such as a flag, educational system, olympics, enhance the feeling of national identity. Our interests shapes our identities and our identities thus shape our actions. The connections that we have in the world are shaped by our interests. Sovereignty- the state has uninhibited power to control whatever they want in their given territory. This is now rare because countries are unable to have full control due to outside forces and this is called shared sovereignty .