SOC 2151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Late Modernity, Global Governance

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2151
• Professor: Aline A Coutinho

Document Summary

Sovereignty of states and their right to govern their own territory. State- organizaional structure; bureaucraic apparatus; overcame the feudal system. Challenges autonomy of the state; globalizaion weakens the state. States can cope with globalizaion (but lose some freedom and acion) Globalizaion fosters states, been making them stronger and pluralizing the number of states out there. States are reorganized, adapive and transformed, not diminished. Growing number of naion states have emerged ex. Un members in 1980 was 157 and in. Ethnic groups atemping to create their own state: palesinians, kurds, basques, Catalans, flemish, scots, welsh, corsicans, quebecois and so on. The rise of other actors ahs to do with who is in power. Amongst actors playing a role in the ield of poliical globalizaion: civil society organizaion (any coaliion that is not part of the government and isn"t made up of familial aspects, mulinaional corporaions, internaional governmental organizaions. League of naion: a forerunner to the un.