Baylis,, Smith and

d Owens: T
The Globaalization of World Pol itics 6e
Reevision guiide
Chapter 1: Globa
alization and global politics

 Ovver the lastt three decades the ssheer scale

e, scope, and
a accelerration of gllobal

inte
erconnecte
edness has
s become increasing
gly evident in every s phere, from
m the

eco
onomic to the cultura
al.

 Sceptics consider that this

t is simp
ply evidenc
ce of growing internaational

inte
erdepende
ence, i.e. linkages be
etween cou
untries. A key
k issue iss how the term
t

‘glo
obalization
n’ differs fro
om internationalizatio
on, i.e. inte
ernational i nterdependence.

 Glo
obalization
n denotes a tendencyy towards the
t growing
g extensityy, intensity, velocity,

and
d deepenin
ng impact of worldwid
de intercon
nnectedness.

 Glo
obalization
n is associa e scale of social orgaanization, the
ated with a shift in the t

em
mergence of
o the world
d as a sharred social space, the
e relative deeterritorialization of

soccial, econo
omic, and political
p acttivity, and the relative
e denation alization of
o power.

 Glo
obalization
n can be co
onceptualizzed as a fu
undamenta
al shift or trransformattion in the

spa
atial scale of human social orga
anization that links distant com
mmunities and
a

exp
pands the reach of power relat ions acros
ss regions and
a contin ents.

 Glo
obalization
n is to be distinguishe
ed from inte
ernationalization andd regionaliz
zation.

 Economic glo
obalization
n may be at risk as a result of th
he 2008 finnancial cris
sis, but the

con
ntemporaryy phase off globalizattion has prroved more
e robust thaan the sce
eptics

reccognize.

 Co
ontemporarry globaliza
ation is a ccomplex an
nd uneven process.

 Co
ontemporarry globaliza
ation is besst describe
ed as a thic
ck form of globalization or

glo
obalism.

 Glo
obalization
n is transforming but not burying
g the Westtphalian ideeal of sove
ereign

sta
atehood. It is producing the disa
aggregated
d state.

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 Baylis,, Smith and
d Owens: T
The Globaalization of World Pol itics 6e
Reevision guiide
 Glo
obalization
n requires a conceptu
ual shift in our thinkin
ng about woorld politics, from a

principally sta
ate-centric
c perspectivve to the perspective
p e of geocenntric or global

politics—the politics of worldwide social rela

ations.

 Glo
obal politiccs is more accurately
a y described
d as distorted global ppolitics bec
cause it is

afflicted by siignificant power

p asym
mmetries.

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