POL 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Seal Hunting, Offshoring, Territorial Entity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1502
• Professor: Simon Hogue

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Lecture 6 -- feb 13 new geography, new actors: transnational actors of power and. Globalization is a new phenomenon (technology, economy, politics) a transformation. Breakdown of topics and lectures: globalization before and now, new structure; integration; key actors, private actors, non-state actors; transnational actors. Cold war: showed the westphalian world (states, clear borders) Ca(cid:374)(cid:374)ot e(cid:454)it glo(cid:271)alizatio(cid:374) all problems are globalized (local-global; global-local) Global governance: a political project with a system of rules and controls (good, corporate and. 4 characteristics of globalization: intensification, rapidity, expansion, collective consciousness global governance) Un is an example of a political ensemble; bretton woods is one of economic (imf, wb, gatt) Neoliberalism: new role of state; liberalization; increase in inequality. Interdependence, integration a(cid:374)d (cid:272)oope(cid:396)atio(cid:374) li(cid:373)ited (cid:396)esou(cid:396)(cid:272)es, (cid:374)o (cid:396)atifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) International organization: formal procedures with at least three countries. Multinational corporations: activities in more than one country. Ngos: created by citizen, collective action, does not act under a government name. Many firms from transitioning/developing economies (china & india)