POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Global Governance, Deterritorialization, World Politics

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 240
• Professor: Cutler A.Claire

Document Summary

Globalization is the capture of the shift from a world of discrete but interdependent national states to a world which is a shared social space. Central aspects of human affairs are increasingly organized on a transnational or global scale. There is an ongoing process of time-space compression and deterritorialization. Globalization a definition spatial scale of human social organization that links distant communities and (cid:498) a historical process involving a fundamental shift or transformation in the expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents(cid:499) A dominant share of (cid:494)globalization(cid:495) is in face (cid:494)oced-ization(cid:495) as these. Geopolitics, regionalization and nationalism are strong counter-forces. Globalization is in fact the visible face of western capitalism and us countries are linked to a much higher degree than others. Economics shocks may very well derail globalization processes. The process is asymmetrical/uneven which will engender inequalities. Many different fields of human activity are simultaneously being globalized.