Global Interstate

System
 OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the discussion, the students
should be able to;

1. Discuss the concept, actors involved,

and processes in the global interstate
system;
2. Identify the functions of different
organizations in the international
community; and,
3. Adapt in the minds of the student that
all nations in the world are interconnected.
GLOBAL
INTERSTATE
SYSTEM • It is the whole system of
human interaction like
modern word system is
structured politically as an
interstate system.
• A system of competing and
allying states
• The state has traditionally been the subject of most
interest to scholars of global politics because it is
viewed as “the institution that creates warfare and set
economic policies for a country.
The Treaty of Wesphalia of 1648
• Established the nation of the nation-state and the
idea of strategy of state of sovereignty.
• With globalization, some scholar suggest a decrease
in the power of the state and that other actors are
actually becoming more powerful.
 GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE IN
THE TWENTY-
FIRST CENTURY
• Must be the declining power of nation state
• The vast flows of all sorts of things that run into
and often right through the borders of nation
states
• There is mass migration of people and their
entry, often illegally, into various nation state.
• Horrendous event within nation-states that the
state themselves either and carry out or unable
to control (Nordstrom, 2004)
• There are global problems that single nation-
state cannot hope to tackle on their own
 EFFECTS OF
GLOBALIZATION TO
GOVERNMENTS
• One of the key concepts of state sovereignty is
the government. It is the group of people who
have the ultimate authority to act on behalf of
a state. Each state has its own right to self-
determination and that other country should
not intervene in the affairs of the state unless
there are extraordinary reason to do so.
• Elections, provide the leadership of the state. In
addition the policy is develop the implemented
in the interest of the people of a state by a
specific government.
 • TRADITIONAL
CHALLENGES
 External intervention
 Internal political
challenges
External
Intervention

• can generally be described

a invasion by other
countries
INTERNAL
POLITICAL
CHALLENGES
it can be defined in various
way but basically relates to the
action and behavior of those
competing for status or power
in the workplace
• CHALLENGES FROM
NATIONAL/IDENTITY
MOVEMENTS
It is important to know that a
nation has cultural identity that
people attached to while a state is a
define entity due to its specific
boundaries however, different
people with different identities can
live in different state.
 GLOBAL
ECONOMICS
Demands the states to conform to the rules of
free market capitalism. Government austerity
comes from development of organization that
cooperate across countries, such as WTO and
regional agreements, such as NAFTA, the
European Union (EU) and the Association of
Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN).
• Neoliberal economics or neoliberal capitalism started in 1980’s. It
focuses on free trade and dismantling trade barriers. It made sure that
government did not impose restrictive regulations on corporate presence, as
well as on the free flow of capital and jobs.
GLOBAL SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS
• Are movements of people that are spontaneous
or the emerge through enormous grass root
organization. These are movements are trans
nation movements which mean they occur
across countries and across borders therefore,
state have less control over them.
The relevance of the state and
globalization

The state is a distinctive political

community with its own set of rules
and practices and that is more or less
separate from other communities.
IT HAS A FOUR ELEMENTS:
PEOPLE, TERRITORY,
GOVERNMENT AND
SOVEREIGNT Y
PEOPLE
- this population does
not refer to a nomadic
people that move
from one place to
another in an
indefinite time.

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TERRITORY

– permanent presence
location, it has clear
boundaries and
effectively controlled by
the third element which
is government.

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GOVERNMENT

– regulates relations among its own

people and with other states. This
mean that the states is a formally
constituted sovereign political
structure encompassing people
territory and its institution.
SOVEREIGNTY

- Control over its internal

and foreign affairs,
independent from other
state.

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• It is important to differentiate the idea of nation from state- nation refers
to a people rather than any kind of formal territorial boundaries or
institution. It is collective identity grounded or a notion of shared history
and culture.

• This bring us to the concept of the nation state. It is territorially bounded

sovereign institution that govern individual sharing a collective history,
identity, and culture.
• (Gilpin 2001) that they “Retain at least some power in the face of
globalization”
• (Conley 2002 pp.578-399) that they vary greatly in “their efficacy in the
face of globalization”
• (Man, 2007,p.472) and the rumors of the demise of the nation are greatly
exaggerated.
• Belan (2008) argued “that the role of the state is enduring- and even
increasing- in advanced industrial societies”
I N S T I T U T I O N T H AT
G O V E R N S I N T E R N AT I O N A L
R E L AT I O N S
These are several international
organization that governments of
countries around the world and
individuals participate in these
includes the United Nation, the
International Court of Justice
NAFTA and NATO
Peace treaties and
military alliances:
The UN and NATO
• Global politics entails
relationship of countries and
different governments and non-
governments organization.
• United nation (UN) is one of the
leading political organization in
the world where nation-states
meet and deliberate.
• Generally, its function in four areas; military issues,
economic issues, environmental issue and human
protection.
Non -
• Are not tied to any country. This
Governmental allows them to cooperate freely
Organization throughout the world. They
provide emergency such as food,
water and medical supplies etc. It
also monitor the treatment of
prisoner of wars and go to conflict
to make sure that no war crimes
are taking place.
Global Economic Associations –
The WTO and NAFTA

• WTO - It is made-up of 162 countries around the world and was

created with the goal increasing free trade. Countries, therefore can
buy and sell goods from one another without places taxes on
imports or traffis. Though good in nature, WTO is not without
criticism more about helping large companies and corporation than
it was about helping people.
• NAFTA - Another famous economic organization is NAFTA. This Economic
treaty between United States Canada and Mexico in which the countries
trade freely without taxing each other. NAFTA It’s not without critics either.
NAFTA like WTO represent challenges in America of giving keeping
manufacturing factories.
Globalization and Globalism
• Global refers to the network of connections that transcends
distances of different countries in the world the links among
countries and people are better associated with globalism while
the speed in which they become linked with one another is
globalization.
• The difference between globalism and globalisation is the speed
and thickness or intensity of connexion nevertheless people are
connected with one another weather a small community or as
large country.
Informationalism

Technological paradigm associated with computer

science and modern telecommunication that replaces
industrialism
Global Citizenship

Citizenship- Is associated with rights an

obligation for instance the right to vote and
obligation to pay taxes
Caecilia Johanna Van Peski - (as cited in Brazil,
2012) Global citizenship as a normal in ethical this position that
can guide the understanding of individuals or group.
 References
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Handbook of Globalization. Two volumes. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
Mazower, Mark. 2006. “An International Civilization? Empire,
Internationalism and the Crisis of the Mid-Twentieth Century.”International
Affairs 82(3): 553–566
Castles, Stephen. 2000. “International Migration at the Beginning of the
Twenty-First Century: Global Trends and Issues.” International Social Science
Journal 52 (165): 269–
Scattle, H. Chapter 7 of textbook: “Governments and Citizens in a
Globally Interconnected World of States” (p. 56).
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Prepared by:
Group 1
Evardone, Kryselle R.
Ragiles, Marjorie C.