POL 1102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Arms Trafficking, Economic Globalization, People Smuggling

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Ivaylo Grouev

Document Summary

Definition(s) of globalization: the concept of globalization reflects sense of an immense enlargement of world communications. Globalization also an ideology: to reduce any resistance to the process. Pr strategy based on the following main arguments beneficial unstoppable (tina,there is no alternative to globalization) Globalization as an ideologymain elements include : Globalization is a process whereby many social relations become relatively delinked from territorial geography, so human lives are increasingly played out in the world as a single place. Social relations have become increasingly delinked from state"s territory. Boundaries between states are becoming less relevant. Countries may have wide ranging and deep effects on each other but they remain distinct and separate entities. The intensification of worldwide social relations which links distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. The pace of economic transformation is so great that it creates a new world politics.