GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Secretariat Of The Council Of The European Union, Neoliberalism, Peacekeeping
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Globalization is a process driven by people, steger lacks this definition in his explanation. Source: what is source of sovereign legitimacy the state serves the people. State: total sovereign political institutions covering a specified territory and population. Government: law making bodies of the state, i. e. the legislature. Weberian state monopoly of coercion/violence, stronger separations of state and economy, State-centrism: distribution of power within the state and interests of political elites. Structural: private ownership of the means of production. Territorial: vast empire which the sun never set upon . : global integration requires hegemonic power to provide public and private resources required to facilitate integration. Britain underwrote gold standard (1871): allowed international trade to happen! British investment resources provided by capital, capital exports rose fivefold between 1865 & 1913. Problems: u. s. refused to ratify, league lacked military enforcement because members not required in making military contributions. The league of nations leads to the development of the united nations.
