MDSB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: International Political Economy, Panopticon, Arab Spring
Document Summary
Globalization is the process whereby polities, economies, institutions and actors at all levels of society become increasingly connected across national borders . 1980: the globe was neatly divided into east, west, north and south. Reagan was about to be elected us president and the temperature of the cold war between the united states and the soviet union was dropping. Revolution had just taken place and saddam hussein was a friend of the americans and british. European countries had no common currency, several of those countries did not officially exist, and only whites were eligible to vote in south africa (robertson, 2015: vii). Under globalization, the most urgent challenges to the nation have come to be shared by others; decisionmaking is decentered and deterritorialized; and new actors have taken to the stage of politics (robertson, 2015: viii). Various stakeholders (one of which are the media") The media are heterogeneous, plural, and contingent.
