IR Lecture 6 The Global International System Units Interaction Capacity Process and Structure Modern State o Redistributive o Capitalism Advantages of The Modern State o Lowered Transaction Costs o Provided Defense as a Public Good o Fused Capital and Coercion o Effectively Compliance in agreements with other units o Secured Elite Support Through Representation which later expanded to non elites Shoving and Pushing o Functionally Differentiated Units suddenly become into a unit that are similar and functions become similar through the process shoving and pushing process Evolution Of The Modern State o Subjects became citizens as realms became nations Major Details An independent commercial class arose in the jurisdiction of the modern states and consolidated its social standing States and their supporters invented nationalism States eventually introduced democracy thereby institutionalizing the transfer of sovereignty from ruler to people which was implicit in nationalism o Midterm How did the rise of an independent commercial class the creation of nationalism and the gradual acceptance of democracy with each other and with competing types of political unit o Development Of Non State Units Corporations Firms Ingos o Key Concepts Underpinning the modern firm after 1800 Partnership Corporation Limited Liability Public Listing Key Points On Modern Firms o Right from the start the state treated the modern firm as an element of its own power and so took a keen interest in its welfare o Many modern firms became transnational from very start both within the colonial empires and across the borders of sovereign states Ingo s o YMCA o Final Question Is there an organic relationship between INGOS and the rise of a global society of states PROCESS 5 Macro Changes o Process either became global such as trade and war or if they remained local had to start functioning in a globalized context o Interaction increased not only in range but also in volume value diversity and speed o Units became more interconnected and interdependent o Structuration process by which units create structure but structure creates units Mutual constituting each other intensified because units were becoming stronger than they d ever been before but so was the international system o The resulting new global system was shot through with inequalities most notably center vs periphery
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