IR 210gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hugo Grotius, Four Worlds, Microfiber
6 Apr 2016
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Globalization engenders a fundamental shift in the constitution of world politics. Sovereign statehood is being transformed requiring a shift in our thinking from international politics to global politics Today"s goals: discuss globalization-impact of 4 worlds, discuss castell"s argument. Four worlds data: major issues/controversies, worldviews/belief systems: shaping debates in each policy world, key actors: rule-makers and rule-takers. Waves of globalization: secular historical process creating a single world system in 3. All of these worlds are based of of capitalist ideas waves: Age of discovery (1459-1850): european expansion and conquest. Economic expansion-pax americana/technological difusion and the knowledge revolution (1945-1990) Rise of new actors and challenges to old order: e. g. microiber agreement limited clothing coming out of developing countries to preserve the power of western countries & put those workers and factories out of business. Most people think of globalization as simply pulling away power of inluence from local communities and nations in the global arena.
