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INTRODUCTION
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Global Interstate
System
• It is the whole system of human
interactions. The modern world
system is structured politically as
an interstate system – a system of
competing and allying states.
Political scientists commonly call
this the international system and
this is the focal point of the field of GLOBAL
international relations. INTERSTATE
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World-systems
-are defined by the existence of a division of labor. The
modern world-system has a multi-state political structure (the
interstate system) and therefore its division of labor is
international division of labor.
The division of labor consists of three zones according to the
prevalence of profitable industries or activities: core, semi
periphery and periphery.
Division of labor Early Edition
Division of labor Early Edition
CORE
High income nations in the world economy. This is
the manufacturing base of the planet where
resources funnel in to become the technology and
wealth enjoyed by the Western World today.
They are dominant capitalist countries that
exploit peripheral countries for labor and raw
materials.
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SEMI-PERIPHERY
Middle income countries such as India and Brazil.
These are considered as semi-periphery due to their
closer ties to the global economic core.
Peripheral countries share characteristics of both
core and peripheral countries.
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PERIPHERY
Called as the low-income countries, whose natural
resources or labor support the wealthier countries,
first as colonies and now by working for
multinational corporations under neocolonialism.
Peripheral countries are dependent on core
countries for capital and have underdeveloped
industry.
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Resources are redistributed from the underdeveloped
(poor part of the world – the periphery) to developed
countries (core).
Cyclical rhythms represent short term fluctuation of
economy, while secular trends mean deeper long run
tendencies, such as general economic growth or decline.
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The term contradiction means a general controversy in the
system, usually concerning some short term vs. long term
trade offs. The last temporal feature is the crisis: a crisis
occurs if a constellation of circumstances brings about the end
of the system.
The world-system theory stresses that world-systems should
be the basic unit of social analysis. Thus, we should focus not
on individual states, but on the relations between their
groupings (core, semi-periphery, and periphery).
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Global governance Early Edition
Global Governance is sometimes referred to as “world
governance”. Global is a movement towards political
cooperation among transactional actors, negotiating
responses to problems that affect more than one state or
region. “Global Governance” may mean the process of
designating laws, rules, or regulations intended for a global
scale.
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Effects of Global governance
Globalization restrains governments by inducing
increased budgetary pressure. As a consequence,
governments may attempt to curtail the welfare
state, which is often seen a drag on international
competitiveness, by reducing especially their
expenditures on transfers and subsidies.
Internationalism vs.
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Internationalism refers to the increasing
importance of international trade, international
relations, treaties, alliances, and many more.
International, means between or among nations
become increasingly necessary and important.
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The national community embraced both national
labor and national capital, and these classes
cooperated to produce national goods largely with
natural resources. These national goods then
competed in international markets against goods of
other nations, produced by their own national
capital/labor teams using their own resources. This
is internationalism as defined a while ago.
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