POL 1502 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Global City, Multilateralism, Ideal Type

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1502
• Professor: Simon Hogue

Document Summary

All relations of power, influence, government, legitimacy, hierarchy, organization in a society and between societies; inequalities. Politics of global social relations in which research of power and deference of interests, order and justice transcend between regions and continents. In many disciplines: communications, economics, terrorism, diseases, environmental crises. Universalization of western liberal democracies as the final form of govt. Globalization is the enlargement, growth and acceleration of interconnections on the world scale; local-to-global; deterritorialization. Hyperglobalizers say that the nation-state will disappear since global forces will take control of individual economies and societies. Skeptics says that states and geopolitics remain the principal forces; they shape international order; world is less interdependent; regionalization. Transformationalists says that globalization will create global politics; national and international questions lose their meaning. Mass interconnections in the last thirty years. Global economic integration intensifying with the expansion of production and trade. Global communication = transnational mobilization and organization (military, terrorism, ngos, corporations, movements)