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 human population
GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM
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.
IMPORTANCE OF GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM
• A hegemon
perspective emerged during the world revolution of 1968 and the anti-war movement that produced a generation of scholars who saw the peoples of Global South (then called the “Third World”) as more than an underdeveloped backwater.
The Development of World-Systems
were seen to have importantly shaped the structures and institutions of the whole global system.
The Development of World-Systems
• The history of colonialism and decolonization
was accompanied by the realization that most national histories had been written as if each country were on the moon.
A more profound awareness of Eurocentrism
is a macro-scale approach to analyzing the world history of the mankind and social changes in different countries.
• World-systems theory
refers to the division of labor, be it inter- regionally or transnationally.
theory
Currently, the theory divides the world into the (3)
core, semi-periphery and periphery countries
are whole systems of interacting polities and settlements.
World-systems
means that these polities and settlements are interacting with one another in important ways - interactions are two-way, necessary, structure regularized and reproductive
Systemness
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 developed non-core nations.
Core Nations
These 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.
Semi-Peripheral Nations
These are the nations that are the 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.
Peripheral Nations
