POG 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Muammar Gaddafi, Giovanni Arrighi, Global Governance

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 225
• Professor: Miriam Anderson

Document Summary

In week 2, we focused on liberal perspectives on global governance. Today, we focus on critical and skeptical perspectives: Concepts of hegemony and manufacture of consent . Bourgeois state whose existence is based on coercion and consent. Hegemonic control over media, academic institutions and civil society by manufacturing their consent = cultural hegemony. Counter-hegemonic discourse (social struggle to question and overcome the bourgeois ideas and belief system. Neo-liberal global governance largely a mechanism of control rather than an agent of freedom (sinclair 2012). The market-based powers and ruling classes control the world and punish those who challenge their liberal rule of law. The modern capitalist system is a mode of production controlled by powerful capitalist states and classes. Within the historic bloc, there are subordinate classes within members of the organization for economic cooperation and development (oecd) and in third world states. The ruling classes control global governance through various means, military, political, economic, cultural and ideological.