POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Francis Fukuyama, Cultural Homogenization, Washington Consensus
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Systems analysis: wholes- an entity comprised of numerous elements which are interrelated such that a change in one element will effect other elements and ultimately transform the whole/system. With the discovery of the western hemisphere the globe had become a system: (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of goods, people, diseases, pla(cid:374)ts . Mechanization of spinning yarn > england is the workshop of the world. Political science: 1989-91 collapse of the ussr globalized liberal democratic capitalism as the sole means of organizing human societies. Realism: globalized free trade comes and goes but does not alter the centrality of states as the main actors in i. r. Liberal/idealist: globalization diminishes the importance of states as actors and will lead to the emergence of systems of global governance. Critical perspectives (marxism) a continuation of imperialism in which capitalist exploitation becomes truly global. Feminism: women play an increasing role as the exploited export processing zones in haiti, Gi(cid:448)e ldc"s a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to (cid:449)orld (cid:373)arkets e(cid:454)ploit ldc"s (cid:272)heap la(cid:271)our a(cid:374)d (cid:373)aterials.
