PO231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Liberal Democracy, North American Free Trade Agreement, Glocalization
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Po231 lesson 12: globalizaion and global governance (cid:1) International relations: looks at relations between states and state actors (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Inter-national relations as more narrow conception of global politics. Rethinking the division of domestic and international political spheres. A set of processes leading to the integration of economic, cultural, political, and social systems across geographical boundaries. The intensification of worldwide social relations which, through economic, technologies, and political forces, link distant localities in such a way that distant events and powers penetrate local events. The widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary life. (text 16) A historical process involving a fundamental shift or transformation in the spatial scale of human social organization that links distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents. (text 534) Realists: globalization does not alter basic feature of world politics the state.
