Unit 3: Globalisation Flashcards
Define Sovereignty:
Supreme power or authority
Define Interdependence:
Mutual dependence between things
Internal sovereignty:
Supreme authority within one’s territory
Transnational Actors:
Regular cross-border interactions in which non-state actors play a significant role. This opens a wide research area in the context of globalisation where a great variety of actors participate in growing global exchanges.
Hyper globalists:
Approach which sees globalisation as a new epoch in human history. This new epoch is brought about largely through the economic logic of a global market.
Define Hollow State:
State which is generally considered to have the appearance of a properly functioning democratic action or state
Define Americanisation:
The idea that the American culture dominates the world
Realists views on globalisation:
Nature of the international system is stronger when there is one or two leading states such as in the Cold War when there was a system of bipolarity when two superpowers, America and USSR, were able to create stability.
Deny that globalisation has altered the core feature of world politics that sovereign states are the primary determinants of what goes on within their borders and remain the principle actors on the world stage.
Inevitability of war - war is needed in order to create balance and ensure that there is a system of competition.
Liberals views on globalisation:
View an international system focuses around the idea of cooperation the most productive way in order to keep peace and ensure that there is greater achieved.
Acknowledges that globalisation has brought about qualities changes in the roel and significance of the state, and in the nature of sovereignty, and as a result simply reduced or increased its power.
View the threat of war as an issue therefore if states are allies the threat of war becomes reduced.
What theory is the Billiard Board:
Realist theory
What is the billiard board:
Suggested that states, like Billiard Balls, are impermeable and self contained units, which influence each other through external pressure. Sovereign states interacting within the state system are thus seen to behave like a collection of billiard balls moving over the table and colliding with each other.
Failed states occur when there is:
No government
Where a government exists but is powerless to function
Where a government has become so ramshackle that other organisations within the nation state are seen as more powerful
Examples of failed states:
Chad
Democratic Republic of Congo
Afghanistan
Syria
Criteria of Failed States:
Uneven economic development
Legitimacy of the states
Massive movement in refugees
Mounting demographic pressures
Progressive deterioration of public services
What is the Cobweb model:
Tasks such as promoting economic growth, tackling global warming etc are impossible for any state to accomplish on its own, however powerful it may be. This has created what has been termed a condition of ‘complex interdependence’ in which states are drawn into cooperation and integration by forces such as closer trading and other economic relationships.
