ATS2624 Chapter Notes - Chapter Prescribed: World Trade Organization, Nationstates
25 May 2018
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Global Governance – Week 7 – Readings – The Neoliberal World Order
- contemporary globalisation
• over time there have been distinctive historical forms of globalisation
which have been associated with different kinds of historical world order
• westphalian state system - marked shift towards heteracrchy - a divided
authority system - in which states seek to share the tasks of governance
with a complex array of institutions, public and private, local, regional,
transitional and global
- military globalisation
• first tier - super power status
• second tier - middle ranking powers
• third tier - developing military powers
• inistutionalised in that military-diplomatic and multilateral arrangements
fine regularised patterns of interaction
• the likely implications and costs of war among advanced industrial states
are now s overwhelming that major was has become obsolete
• the rising density of financial, trade and economic connections between
states has expanded the potential vulnerability of most states to political
or economic instability in distant parts of the globe
• autonomy is sought through a mix of internationalisation and
nationalisation - trade of weaponry etc
• technology now changing the logistics and the modern battlefield
• dual- use technologies - commercial technologies and the industries that
produce them
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o result - many countries have access to many of the technologies
needed to exploit the military technological revolution
- economic globalisation
• internationalisation and liberalisation of trade
• transformation of state autonomy and state policy as a result
• global regulation of trade by bodies such as the WTO - implies a
significant renegotiation if the westphalian notion of state sovereignty
• influence of TNCS - new political actor - effect on policies
- political globalisation
• political decisions in one part of the world can have ramifications for
another
• shifting reach of political power, authority and forms of rule
• developments at a global level now can frequently acquire almost
instantaneous local consequences and vice versa
• governments and states now share the global arena with an array of other
agencies and organisations
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o IGOs, quasi supranational institutions - EU, social movements,
TNCs
• trasnational policy issues
• defence and security issues no longer dominate the global agenda
• shift towards a a system of multilayered global and regional governance
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