IR Lecture 27 Paper organization Using 3 views realists liberal structuvism 1 paragraph for outcome Theories What is best and why TOUCH ON THE OPTIONS NUASSANCE TO A CONCLUSION Lecture 3 questions concerning GCS 1 What is he relationship or what are the relationships between an expanding GCS and an ever evolving international society of states 2 should states regulate GCS more tightly If so in what ways 3 Analyze a particular problem in the news for example the economic meltdown from the perspective of GCS both its good and bad side Now the really big core question to end the term Are we undergoing even as we speak a systemic transformation in international relations comparable to the shift from the classical world to the modern world Interaction Capacity B and Little contend that physical technologies for increasing interaction capacity have reached a kind of limit What will happen when half the world s population secures internet access Or when 75 secures it Will there be some sort of globe wide transformation in the socio cultural system What will be the effect on the other systems Process Probably the major transformations have already been made The center periphery process formation look likes to be durable for some time to come Center periphery process formation dynamics generate the distinct zone of peace and zone of conflict Major Process Transformations Still Underway The democratic peace and globalization jointly but will democracy continue to spread or is this as fat as its going Will globalization even reach an end and possibly go into reverse 2 The rise of environmental processes not only as a new key variable in human affairs but as a candidate for becoming the dominant process Units will military political units states as we have known them lose their dominant position Are we witnessing the transition to a new type of unit the postmodern state 1 the erosion of hard boundaries and strong sovereignty and their replacement by a negotiated arrangement of permeable boundaries layered sovereignty and common international and transnational spaces 2 economic and civic units have achieved and increase in relative autonomy so now there are multiple types of units that are functionally differentiated Structures there probably wont be transformations in the main shapes of structure but there might be shifts in the relative importance of the various structures at play in the system Structures military political comparative advantage will shift away from military capability and toward economic prowess societal dynamism and the diplomatic skills necessary to build and to expand strong subsystems of international society The globalization of the economy continues it will create problems and you will have states listen Socio Culturally Along with the intensification of the market comes an intensification of international society marked by the steady spread voluntary and imposed of a wider range of rues norms and institutions If western relative power declines will the international society of states start to crumble Or will globe wide westernistic values stop that from happening read chapter for final
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