GLOBL 1 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
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Globalization : growing impact of worldwide interconnectedness general agreement. Disagreements how it is best conceptualized, causes, consequences. Growing $ inequalities, erasure of local cultural differences, increase of. American/western hegemony (power), environment, spread of militarism and wmd (weapons of mass destruction), ethnic rivalries, oppression of women and children. Realist view presupposes that world order depends on geopolitical factors (states and power-keeping institutions [alliances, treaties, laws, etc. ] that maintain the relations b/t and among them) Feudal state from aristocratic landholdings loosely federated and united by a monarch and religion absolute monarchies ruled by armies and bureaucracies. Challenged by england/holland, where monarchical power was constrained by law supporting an emerging bourgeois class. Europe descended into thirty years" war that ends holy roman empire and almost destroys the continent concluded by treaty of westphalia (1648) that inaugurates a new system of governance. States sovereign (rights of states to govern themselves) within own realm. States manage processes of law-making, law enforcement, and dispute-settlement.
