POLB80H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: World Trade Organization, Geopolitics, International Monetary Fund
Document Summary
A historical process involving a fundamental shift in the spatial scale of human social organization, that links distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents. A single world economy after the collapse of communism. The growing integration of the international capitalist system in the post war period. The interweaving of human lives so that events in one region of the world have an impact on all/most other people. A political community in which the state claims legitimacy on the grounds (location) that are represents the nation. The nation-state would exist if nearly all the members of a single nation were organized in a single state, without any national communities being present (aka does not exist) The politics of global social relations in which the pursuit of power, interests, order, and justice goes beyond the limits of regions and continents.
