POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cultural Imperialism, Single European Act, Digital Divide
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International integration: globalization and integration, supranational orgs: subsume a bumber of states and their functions w/i a larger whole. All contain a struggle b/w the contradictory forces of nationalism and supranationalism b/w state sovereignty and the higher authority of supranational structures. Integration theory: attempts to explain why states choose supranationalism, which challenges once again the foundations of realism (state sovereignty and territorial integrity, international integration: refers to the process by which supranational insts replace nat"l ones. The gradual shifting upward of sovereignty from state to regional or global structures: european moves toward integration could be explained by functionalism growth of specialized tech orgs that cross nat"l borders. The dev of more general, more political supranat"l bodies, such as the. Argue that econ integration generates a pol dynamic that drives integration further. Created 2 new orders: one extended the coal and steel idea into a new realm, atomic energy, created euro econ comm (eec), later known as euro.
