Lecture 5: Globalization and Politics Flashcards
What is graduated sovereignty?
National gov’t retains full control in some areas, but surrenders some control in others to corporations and other entities
Western nations treaty of 1648
- ended thirty years war in Europe
- limit ability of states to interfere in one another’s affairs
- created an anarchic system of states (WW1, WW2)
What is the Great Law of Peace?
nation based treaty for 800 years
- influenced writing of constitution
- foundation for international law beyond states
What is nationalism?
doctrine and/or political movement that seek to make the nation the basis of a political structure
- efforts to politicize a nation into action/unity/control
- dangerous when combined with an internal ‘enemy’
What is a nation state?
integrates sub groups that define themselves as a nation with the organizational structure of the state
- collapse of feudal organization
- interaction of nations creates borders
- ability to create debt, tax
Threats to the nation state
- rights as threats:
- universality
- UN
- human rights (universal declaration created under Eleanor Roosevelt)
Benefits to nation state
- away from past problems -opens economies, trade, travel, tech, medicine
- interconnected = peaceful
- more engagement=less fighting=fewer differences between governments
What is an imagined community?
a nation that exists primarily as a set of ideas in people’s minds
What does Benedict Anderson say about imagined communities?
1) Almost never have face-to-face contact
2) Limited - doesn’t incorporate everyone
3) Sovereign - unfettered by anything
4) Community - deep horizontal comradeship
What is grassroots globalization?
- creation of networks: communication, solidarity, information sharing and mutual support
- developing alternative politics - cultural/indigenous integrity and autonomy
Resisting the global (Thrift)
- more cellphones in the world than people
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- organizing against dam construction
What does Khanna say about global political changes in nation-state relations?
- geopolitics (nation-state interactions) vs. glob’n (free economic flows)
- US strong in geopolitics but weakened in glob’n
- Big 3 reemerging (US, EU, China)
What is the League of Nations?
1919
- collective security to end war
- US created but refused to join
- Keynesian embedded liberalism emerges from failure
What is the UN?
1945
- nation-state members & refugee communities
- 50,000 people in secretariat
- security council vs. general assembly
- deals with: military, economy, environment, human rights
What are intergovernmental organizations?
IGOs
- orgs that are international in scope
- UN
What is the UNCTAD?
conference on trade and development
- primarily promoted free markets and free trade
- 1992 switches to neoliberalism for all
What is UNESCO?
educational, scientific, cultural organization
- hampered by cold war
- undermined by neoliberalism and glob’n
- canada protected its culture from American onslaught here
What is IAEA?
International Atomic Energy Agency
-Iran & Iraq
what is the G8?
- began as G6
- global coordination of political and economic issues
What is the OAS?
Organization of American States
- multilateral organization for Latin America
- Canada refused to join for fear of US dominance (neoliberalism)
- breaking of ties with US under Bush, more with Harper
What is the ASEAN?
Association of South East Asian Nations
- regional political and security body
- Japan, China, Korea tensions remain issue
What is the AU?
African Union
- efforts to benefit from glob’n
- use multilateralism for Africa (policing, genocide)
Examples of global governance:
- public policy networks
- bond rating agencies
- INGO’s
- BIS
- global compact
5 Ways to govern the global economy:
1) Through G3 (EU, Japan, NA)
2) Regulatory agencies (WTO)
3) trade blocs (EU, NAFTA, ASEAN)
4) Nations (SWF)
5) Regions within nations (California)
