KS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James N. Rosenau, Robert Gilpin, American Imperialism
Document Summary
Scared of american imperialism in an age of globalization. What, when, why are the tricks to remember globalization. More than just growing interconnection between nation states: social, technological, cultural and political aspects, changing our society. Processes, events and decisions and their impact on other people and communities across the world. Growing interconnectedness becomes systematic: shaped by one another, reciprocal. Cultural events impact everyone differently: creates inequalities -not only between us and them but also between us and us, deviates within cultures. Serious implications for understanding the nation state and the people within them: boarders becoming less important (tech, not just the end of the nation state, its just hard to see the boarders or major differences. Most visivle consequences of modernity: giddins globalization, socially recognizing time and space. Harvey - believes reorganizing 15 post: time and space compression o. Global financecial system (stocks: perfect collapse of time and space.
