INTLSTD 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Imagined Communities, September 11 Attacks, Economic Globalization
15 Sep 2016
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In 1990s the dominant tension was the clash between the fragmentation of states (and the state system) and the progress of economic, cultural, and political integration in other words, globalization. September 11 attacks showed us that globalization makes an awful form of violence easily accessible to hopeless fanatics. Realists insist that nothing has changed in international relations. Many scholars consider successful globalization as dissolving borders through new means of information and communication. Globalization has three forms, each with its own problems: economic globalization, which results from recent revolutions in technology, information, trade, foreign investment, and international business. Globalization"s reach remains limited because it excludes many poor countries, and the states that it does transform react in different ways: because every country is diverse in its economic and social conditions, and partisan politics. Many non-governmental organizations reflect only a tiny segment of the populations of their members" states: they often represent modernized countries and often ngos have little independence from governments.
