The Global Interstate

System
 Global Interstate System
 It is the whole system of human interactions. The modern world system is
structed politically as an interstate system, a system of competing and
allying states.
 Political scientists commonly call this the international system and this is the
focal point of the field of international relations.
 World system are defined by the existence of a division of labor.
 The modern world system has a multi-state political structure (the interstate
system) and therefore its divisions of labor is international division of labor.
 The division of labor consists of three zones according to the prevalence of
profitable industries or activities; core, semi periphery and periphery.
The Modern World System
 DIVISION OF LABOR

 CORE- High income nations in the world economy.

 SEMI-PERIPHERY – Are the middle-income countries.

 PERIPHERY- Called as the low-income countries.

RESOURCES Are redistributed from the underdeveloped to develop
countries.
Example: from periphery to core.
CYCLICAL RHYTHMS- Represent the short-term fluctuation of economy
SECULAR TRENDS- Deeper long run tendencies, such as general economic growth or
decline.

The term contradiction means a general controversy in the system, usually concerning some
short term vs. long term trade offs. The last temporal feature is the crisis; a crisis occurs if a
constellation of circumstances brings about the end of the system.
The world-system theory stresses that world-systems should be the basic unit of social analysis
meaning. Thus, we should be focus not on individual states, but on the relations between their
groupings (core, semi-periphery and periphery)
 Global Governance

 Global governance is sometimes referred to as “world governance.” global is a

movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors, negotiating
responses to problems that affect more than one state or region. “Global
Governance” meaning is the process of designating laws, rules, or regulations
intended for a global scale.
 Effects Of Governance

 GLOBALIZATION Restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure. As a consequence,

governments may attempt to curtail the welfare state, which is often seen as a drag on international
competitiveness, by reducing especially their expenditures on transfers and subsidies.
 Internationalism vs Globalization
Internationalism refers to the increasing
importance of international trade,
international relations, treaties,
alliances and many more.
International, means between or among
nations. The basic unit remains the
nation, even as relations among nations
become increasingly necessary and
important.
Globalization refers to global economic
integration of many formerly national
economies into one global economy,
mainly by free trade and free capital
mobility, but also by easy or
uncontrolled migration. It is the
effective erasure of national boundaries
for economic purposes. International
trade becomes interregional trade
meaning governed by comparative
advantage becomes governed by
absolute advantage.
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