POLSCI 2I03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Double Burden, World-Systems Theory, Democratic Peace Theory
23 Jan 2018
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Globalization is considered a historical process of fast-growing interconnectedness in every sphere of social, political and economic life, across political and national frontiers. Globalization involves an accelerating pace of global interactions and processes associated with a deepening enmeshment of the local and the global. In the first wave, the age of discovery (1450-1850), globalization was decisively shaped by european expansion and conquest which then determined the order of the world system. The second wave (1850-1945) evidenced a major expansion in the spread and entrenchment of european empires; attempts to enlarge territories while securing them from external interference. The concept of asymmetrical globalization describes the unequal effects of globalization on different parts of the world and among different social groups leading to a distinctive pattern of inclusion and exclusion in the global system. Globalization can be distinguished from internationalization or internal interdependence. Internationalization refers to growing interdependence among states; presumes that states remain discrete national units in which borders matter.
