POL 1102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Washington Consensus, Preemptive War, David Held
2 Apr 2014
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Suggests using the term globality (instead of globalisation) to signify a social condition characterized by global economic, political, cultural, and environmental interconnections that make existing boundaries irrelevant. But he uses globalisation to refer to the social process that transforms our current social condition into one of globality. Globalisation is an uneven process, people in different parts of the world are all affected differently. Prehistoric: - contact among hunters and gatherers was limited geographically and coincidental changed with the production of food because these societies became organized and supported different classes. European economists laid the foundation of capitalism. traditional nation states emerged. This globalisation and changing face of governance leads to a problem of governance: ( 3 types) they deal with: sharing our planet (environment, global warming), sustaining humanity (poverty, global infectious diseases), our rulebook (nuclear power, intellectual property rights, finance)
