SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Caribbean Community, Free Trade Area Of The Americas, Liberal Democracy
2 Mar 2016
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Refers to an interconnected set of processes. Tendency toward uniform political ideology (protecting private property) Increasing interconnectedness and interdependence (cultures coming together, ex toronto"s hub of cultures). World trade organization (gives out loans after wwii) world bank, imf. Normalize between states and eliminating the barriers for trades. Those who are benefiting for this are the least likely to change. Increase in standard of living versus decline in standard of living. Peace in the global village versus the erosion of cultural diversity (if people are more alike we would have more peace vs. those who have unique cultures and through those processes you have less happening) Ex: alberta health care conservative wanted to change this. Canada couldn"t remove the transnational companies from their system leading to the result of them possibly being sued. There are a lot of laws in place.
