Clarification
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The global polity is stateless
But the global polity is composed of
nation-states
What gives?
Review: Application – Hotel
Rwanda
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Our discussion of political globalization
helps us understand why the global
intervention in Rwanda was so late and
so weak
In our global polity, nation-states retain
ultimate sovereignty – control over
what happens within their borders
Looking Back at Rwanda Genocide,
Christiane Amanpour CNN 2004
With machetes, machine guns and clubs,
Hutu extremists on their murderous
rampage killed nearly a million people in
just 100 days. It was perhaps the
fastest genocide in history, and yet the
international community would not call
it genocide until May 1994, a month
after it started….[G]enocide imposes a
legal obligation on the world to try to
stop it….
Review: Application – Hotel
Rwanda
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Our discussion of political globalization
helps us understand why the conflict
arose in the first place
Rwanda is a colonial invention; it does
not readily fit the definition of nationstate
Still we see its form is utterly
conventional
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Cultural
Cultural Globalization:
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Chile
1. “Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatballs"
2. “The Taking of Pelham
One, Two, Three"
3. “The Orphan”
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Ghana
1. “The Taking of Pelham
One, Two, Three "
2. “G-Force"
3. “Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatballs”
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Lebanon
1. “Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatballs "
2. “Inglourious Basterds"
3. “The Ugly Truth"
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Cultural Globalization:
Values/Norms
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“our mission to promote liberty around
the world” (Bush on Iraq 2003)
“Reports of eating disorders such as
anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa,
and other eating disorders recently
have increased in both Western and
non-Western regions” (Edquist 2004).
Cultural Globalization:
Values/Norms
Cultural Globalization:
Definitions/ Assumptions
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What exists
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What existents can do
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How existents interrelate