POL SCI 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Silk Road, Materiel, World Trade Organization
20 Oct 2016
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Tends to refer to widening, deepening & speeding up of interconnectedness . Long distance flow of goods, services & capital (as well as info surrounding these) Connectedness through the military (increases during world wars) Long distance transport of materials in the atmosphere. Ie. pollution isn"t going to stop at the border. Movement of ideas, religion, knowledge, culture, people, music, etc. Major source of most form of globalisation: growing speed & growth of information that has reduced importance of distance. The world"s major economies were very integrated before ww1 (manifested in part through imperialism) But it is very different and has increased. It"s not new or old but thick or thin . Thin ex: silk road was an important economic and cultural link between asia and europe, it involved only a small group of traders and reached only a small group of consumers. Thick is more extensive farther, faster, cheaper & deeper.
