BAYLIS

Realism
o States
o Sovereignty
o Power
o National interest
o Balance of power
o Diplomacy
o Self help
o Neorealism
Structure
nternational system
Rules
Multipolarity - unipolarity
Liberalism
o Norms
o nternational regimes
o nterdependence
Marxist
o Capitalist economy
o Class
o Class interest
o Core/semi core/ periphery
o Dominance of global capitalism
o
Social Constructivism
o Mid-1990s/disintegration of soviet empire
o Human agency potential
o Social World is external to the people
o Anarchy is what states make of it
Post Structuralism
o Past 15 years
o Lyotard: simplifying to the extreme i define post modern as
ncredulity towards metanarratives
o Scepticism to foundational epistemology
o Michael foucault
o Knowledge is not immune from the workings of power
o Power in fact produces knowledge
Post colonialism
o Military and economic subordination of the global South by powerful
western interests

Globalization

Realist: globalization does not alter the territorial division of the World into
nation states
Liberal: globalization shows that states are no longer central actors
Marxist: latest stage in the development of international capitalism
Constructivist: we can mould globalization
Post-structuralists: it is a discourse and does not exist out in the World.

Post-colonial: it highlights the important degree of continuity and

persistence of colonial forms of power.

9 features

Globalization has many features in common with the theory of

modenization.
o ndustrialization altered the natre of state, widening its
responsibilities and weakening its control
There are similarities with the arguments that economic growth followed a
pattern in all economies as they went through industrialization.
Literature: nature of economic interdependence, the role of transnational
actors, cobweb model of World politics. They tend to be applied more to
the developed World.
Marshall mcluhan: global village. Time and space become compressed to
such and extent that everything lost its traditional identity.
Communications revolution
John Burton/cobweb model - Hedley Bull/society
WOMP World order models Project
Liberal peace theory,

n favour of globalization

The pace of economic transformation

Communications
Global culture
Becoming homogenous World
Time and space collapse
Global polity
Cosmopolitan culture
Risk culture

Objections

Latest phase of capitalism

o The present internationalized economy is not unique 1870/1914
o Transnational companies are rare national companies trading
internationally
o There is no shif of finance and capital from the developed to the
underdeveloped World
o World economy is not global: three blocs: europe, North america and
japan
o Three blocs can regulate global economic market if they can
coordinate
Very uneven in its effects
Latest stage of western imperialism
Considerable losers
Drug cartels and terrorism
Global governance / responsibility
Paradox / asian tigers

Chapter 2 Globalization

Hyperglobalists
o The demise of the sovereign nation-state as global forces undermine
the ability f governments to control or manage their own economies
and societies
Sceptics
o States and geopolitics remain the principal agents and forces
shaping World politics today.
Transformationalist
o Both are exaggerate their arguments
o The distinction between domestic and international affairs is no
longer very meaningfull