Chapter 1

Question 1

Globalization

Answer 1

Historical process involving a fundamental shift in human organization that links distant communities and expands the reach of power relations across regions and continents

Question 2

Interconnectedness

Answer 2

The interweaving of human lives so that events in one region of the world have an effect on all or most other people.

Question 3

Nation state

Answer 3

A political community in which the state claims legitimacy on the grounds it represents the nation. Although the term is widely used, no such entities exist.

Question 4

Global politics

Answer 4

the politics of global social relations in which which the pursuit of power, interests, order and justice transcends regions and continents.

Question 5

Nation

Answer 5

A group of people who recognize each other as sharing a common identity, with a focus on a homeland.

Question 6

Non-governmental Organization (NGO)

Answer 6

Any group of people relating to each other regularly in a formal manner and engaging in collective action, provided that the activities are non-commercial, non-violent and not on the behalf of a government.

Question 7

G20

Answer 7

Group of Twenty established in 1999 as a forum in which major advanced and emerging economies discuss global financial and economic matters.

Question 8

International organization

Answer 8

Any institution with formal procedures and formal membership from three or more countries

Question 9

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Answer 9

An institution of 188 members providing extensive technical assistance and short-term flows of stabilization finance to any of those members experiencing distressed public finances.

Question 10

Cooperation

Answer 10

Required in any situation where parties must act together in order to achieve a mutually acceptable outcome.

Question 11

Interdependence

Answer 11

a condition where states are affected by the decisions taken by others.

Question 12

Globalism

Answer 12

A growing collective awareness or consciousness of the world as a shared social space.

Question 13

Time-space compression

Answer 13

The technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance of a world that is, in communication terms, shrinking

Question 14

Deterritorialization

Answer 14

A process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries.

Question 15

Internationalization

Answer 15

term used to denote high levels of international interaction and interdependence, most commonly with regard to the world economy.

Question 16

Regionalization

Answer 16

growing interdependence between geographically contiguous states, as in the European Union.

Question 17

European Union

Answer 17

Political and economic alliance formed by European Countries.

Question 18

uneven globalization

Answer 18

describes the way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and among different social groups.

Question 19

Imperialism

Answer 19

The practice of foreign conquest and rule in the context of global relations of hierarchy and subordination.

Question 20

institutionalization

Answer 20

the degree to which networks or patterns of social interaction are formally constituted as organizations with specific purposes.

Question 21

World Trade Organization

Answer 21

159 member permanent institution covering services, intellectual property and investment issues as well as pure merchandise trade, and it has a disputes settlement mechanism in order to enforce its free trade agenda.

Question 22

Normative Structure

Answer 22

international relations theory traditionally defines structure in material terms, such as the distribution of power, and the treats structure as a constraint on actors.

Question 23

territoriality

Answer 23

borders and territory remain important

Question 24

Sovereignty

Answer 24

The principle that within its territorial borders the state state is the supreme political authority, and that outside those boundaries the state recognizes no higher political authority

Question 25

Global policy networks

Answer 25

complexes which bring together together the representatives of governments, international organizations, NGOs and the corporate sector for the formulation and implementation of global public policy.

Question 26

global polity

Answer 26

the totality of global political structures and processes including non-state actors.

Question 27

Global Governance

Answer 27

the loose framework of global regulation, both institutional and normative, that restrains conflict

Question 28

transnational civil society

Answer 28

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