GLOBAL INTERSTATE

SYSTEM
Mr. Andrew N. Dela Vega, JD.
Lecturer
GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM

• It is the whole system of human

interactions. The modern world system is
structure 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.
GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM
• World-systems 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 division 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.
DIVISION OF LABOR
• CORE – high income nations in the world economy. This is the
manufacturing base of the planet where resources funnel in to
become the technology and wealth enjoyed by the Western World
today. They are dominant capitalist countries that exploit peripheral
countries for labor and raw materials.
• SEMI-PERIPHERY- are the middle-income countries, such as India and
Brazil. These are considered semi-periphery due to their closer ties to
the global economic core.
• PERIPHERAL COUNTRIES- share characteristics of both core and
peripheral countries.
DIVISION OF LABOR
• Periphery – called as the low-income countries,
whose natural resources or labor support the
wealthier countries, first as colonies and now by
working for multinational corporations under
neocolonialism.
• Peripheral countries are dependent on core
countries for capital and have underdeveloped
industry.
GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM
• Resources are redistributed from the underdeveloped
(poor part of the world – the periphery) to developed
countries (core).

• Cyclical rhythms represent the short term fluctuation

of economy, while the secular trends mean deeper
long run tendencies, such as general economic growth
or decline.
GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM
• 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. Thus we should 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” may mean the
process of designating laws, rules, or regulations
intended for a global scale.
EFFECTS OF GLOBAL 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
• Internalization 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 increasingly
necessary and important.
• Globalization refers to global economic integration of many formerly
national economics 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 (governed by comparative advantage) becomes
interregional trade (governed by absolute advantage)
 Internationalism vs. Globalization
• The national community embraced both national
labor and national capital, and these classes
cooperated to produce national goods largely with
national natural resources. These national goods then
competed in international markets against the goods
of other nations, produced by their own national
capital/labor teams using their own resources. This is
internationalization as defined a while ago.