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
IMPORTANCE OF GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM
A hegemon 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.
country that takes more power (US NORTH).
Hegemon
The world-systems 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 world-systems 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
World-systems theory is a macro-scale approach to analyzing the world history of the mankind and social changes in different countries.
The World Systems Theory
refers to the division of labor, be it inter-regionally or transnationally.
The definition of the theory
World-systerns are whole systems of interacting polities and settlements.
The Development of World-Systems
-an attitude, conceptual apparatus, or set of empirical beliefs of supremacy of the European nations
- Europe is the primary architect of the world history
- Bearer of universal values and reasons
- Model of progress and development
EUROCENTRISM
means that these polities and settlements are interacting with one another in important ways-interactions are two-way, necessary, structured regularized and reproductive.
Systemness
appear to be powerful, wealthy and highly independent of outside control
Core Nations
they dominate the global economic and political countries.
- United States
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- Japan
- France
- Canada
- South Korea
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
they contributed to manufacturing and exporting of goods and mark by above average land mass, exemplified by china.
- Brazil
- India
- Mexico
- South Africa
- China
- Turkey
- Malaysia
- Philippines
These are the nations that are the least economically developed.
Peripheral Nations
One of the main reasons for their peripheral status is the high percentage of uneducated people who can mainiy provide cheap unskilled labor to the core nations.
-underdeveloped nations
-high percentage of uneducated people (Asia, Africa, South America
