POL 1502 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Deterritorialization, Global Governance, Geopolitics
24 Feb 2017
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Globalization and Global Politics – McGrew, 2012
- Globalization is the enlargement, growth and acceleration of interconnections on the world
scale; local-to-global; deterritorialization
- Hyperglobalizers say that the nation-state will disappear since global forces will take control of
individual economies and societies
- Skeptics says that states and geopolitics remain the principal forces; they shape international
order; world is less interdependent; regionalization
- Transformationalists says that globalization will create global politics; national and international
questions lose their meaning
Understanding Globalization
- Mass interconnections in the last thirty years
- Global economic integration intensifying with the expansion of production and trade
- One economic crisis affects another region
- Corporations control world economy
- Global communication = transnational mobilization and organization (military, terrorism, NGOs,
corporations, movements)
- Globalization results in humans sharing same ideas but also hostility between countries and
groups
- Individuals and cultures displaced all over the world with migration
- Global solutions: climate change agreements, weapons of mass destruction, international
organizations (IMF)
- Security: one event affects another regions (skeptics say this is interdependence)
Conceptualizing Globalization
- Expansion of social, political and economic activities
- One decision affects another region (war = migration)
- Transport and communication systems (ideas, news, goods, information shared)
- Events: global-local; local-global
- Promotion collective consciousness
- Undermines importance of borders and territories
- Deterritorialization: activities not controlled by states
- Contraction: place of power and consequences are different (world in Iraq = decision in D.C.)
- Internationalization: interdependence with clear borders
- Globalization: does not distinguish between what is national or exterior
- Regionalization: intensification of interconnections and integration of states which have
common borders or geographically close to each other (EU)
- Economic regionalization = North America, Asia Pacific, EU
Modern Globalization
- Globalization ended after 9/11; governments wanted stricter border controls
- After financial crisis, governments wanted to protect major industries
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Document Summary
Globalization is the enlargement, growth and acceleration of interconnections on the world scale; local-to-global; deterritorialization. Hyperglobalizers say that the nation-state will disappear since global forces will take control of individual economies and societies. Skeptics says that states and geopolitics remain the principal forces; they shape international order; world is less interdependent; regionalization. Transformationalists says that globalization will create global politics; national and international questions lose their meaning. Mass interconnections in the last thirty years. Global economic integration intensifying with the expansion of production and trade. Global communication = transnational mobilization and organization (military, terrorism, ngos, corporations, movements) Globalization results in humans sharing same ideas but also hostility between countries and groups. Individuals and cultures displaced all over the world with migration. Global solutions: climate change agreements, weapons of mass destruction, international organizations (imf) Security: one event affects another regions (skeptics say this is interdependence) Transport and communication systems (ideas, news, goods, information shared)
