GS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Universal Postal Union, United Nations Human Rights Council, United Nations System
Document Summary
Human migration is constant: chasing food, new land, opportunities. New networks of economic and cultural exchange" increasingly sophisticated communities. Nomadic hunters = agricultural communities = city-states =nation-states. Security and social contract" between rulers and ruled: hobbes". Leviathan", emergence of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and non- intervention as rules of the game". Social relations no longer controlled by the state: Technology shrunk perceptions of space and time. Financial transactions = trillion payments is routed through us banking. Global imaginary" (steger): growing consciousness of global connectivity, community. Mixing cultures element and stycles eg j. lo and sushito. Implications regarding national identity, loyalty and political community/realm. Cosmopolitans: human belong to a single community: citizens of the world , focuses on equal rights to all humans that apply across national borders. Communitarians: resides with the community" particularistic - human belong to specific" communities, with distinct norms, values, traditions. Democracy, human rights, the rule of law = western values or universal values? tensions of hybridization.
