Chapter 2: Global Interstate System Flashcards
The modern world system is now a global economy with a global political system (the modern interstate system). Refers to the relationship between different state union. It also includes all the cultural aspects and interaction networks of the human population.
GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM
A _____ is a core state that has a significantly greater amount of economic power than any other state, and that takes on the political role of system leader.
hegemon
The world systems perspectives emerged the world revolutions of 1968 and the anti-war movement that produced a generation of scholars who saw the people of global south (The third world) as more than an underdeveloped backwater.
The Development of World Systems
It became widely understood that a global power structure existed and that the people of the none-core had been active participants in their own liberation.
The Development of World Systems
The ______ were seen to have importantly shaped the structure and institutions of the whole global systems.
history of colonialism and decolonization
is a macro-scale approach to analyzing the world. history of the mankind and social changes in different countries.
The world systems theory
The theory refers to the division of labor be it inter regionally or transnationally. Currently, the theory divides the world into the core, semi- periphery and periphery countries. World systems are whole systems of interacting policies and settlements.
The World Systems Theory
appears to be the powerful, wealthy and highly independent of outside control. They are able to deal bureaucracies effectively; they have powerful militaries and can boast with strong economies. Due to resources that are available to them (mainly intellectual) they are able to be at the forefront of technological progress and have a significant influence on less develop non-core nations.
Core Nations
The regions have a less developed economy and are not dominant in the international trade. In terms of their influence on the world economies, they end up midway between the core and periphery countries. They strive to get into a dominant position of the core nation and it was proved historically that it is possible to gain major influence in the world and become a core country.
Semi-peripheral Nations
These are the nations that are least economically developed. One of the main reasons for their peripheral status is the high percentage of uneducated people who can mainly provide cheap unskilled labor to the core nations. There is a very high level of social inequality, together with a relatively weak government which is unable to control country’s economic activity and the extensive influence of the core nations.
Peripheral Nations
