R SOC365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Mitigation, Global Governance
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Autonomy: ability to pursue goals without undue in uence of external pressures, a state operating at the behest of an external entity is said to be captured. Capacity: the availability of the necessary resources to pursue those goals (ex. capital, expertise, information). The evolution of states: states evolved in the context of competing chiefdoms, high degrees of cooperation, economically, militarily, organizational. Nature of problems have changed: transboundary phenomenon challenge state sovereignty (globalization, climate change), sovereignty challenges cooperative attempts for global governance of transboundary problems. !2: qualitative and quantitative increase in the intensity of connections among people. ; minimize regulations to attract investment: states increasingly must respond to national effects that have international causes, such as the price of food (example corn is a staple export for mexico however the. Us is producing it at a lower price now): these implications are not the same for every state.
