The state and globalisation key concepts/ test

Question 1

What is sovereignty ?

Answer 1

The idea that states have absolute power and authority

Question 2

What is an nation state ?

Answer 2

An Autonomous political community held together by citizenship and
nationality.

Question 3

What are non state actors ?

Answer 3

Participants in international relations with significant power and influence, which are not states.

Question 4

What is the definition of globalisation ?

Answer 4

An Emergence of a complex web of interconnectedness in many forms.

Question 5

What is the definition of economic globalisation ?

Answer 5

Economic globalisation is the Growing economic integration and interdependence of economies
through intensified cross-border movement of goods, services,
technologies and capital

Question 6

What is the definition of political globalisation

Answer 6

Growing importance of international organisations - this includes igos

Question 7

What is the definition of cultural globalisation ?

Answer 7

Growing transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the
world.

Question 8

What are the factors driving globalisation ?

Answer 8

• tech ie internet
• Culture - the process of homogenisation which is the Coming together of global cultures and development of a single,
  homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.
• Economics - the development of of global markets , services and goods with TNCs like appke having global supply chains
• politics - increase in liberal values spreading
• people and countries - the growth of migration and the movment of people across borders
• institutions - the growing role of institutions like the wto which forces countries to cooperate and opearte within its free market rules or the eu where decisions aqre ,made by european institutions

Question 9

What is global governance

Answer 9

Broad and complex process of decision making at a global level.

Question 10

Explain the process of globalisation

Answer 10

• globalisation has created a shrinking world which is increasingly interconnected where geographical location has become irrelevant.
• globalisation has lessened the importance of territorial borders