1. Industrialization Secularization Democratization Massification Traditional Authority Bureaucratization Commodification Materialism Environmental Degradation Nuclearization of Kinship Global Inequality

2. McDonaldization Efficiency (time, space, cost) Calculability (quantitative aspect of production) Predictability (based on familiarity) Control of humans through non-human technology People will generally accept predictable mediocrity when the alternative is uncertain. Instant gratification is another motive. Customers take on more employee-like roles (self-serving, refills, waste disposal) while employees become machine-minders. McDonaldized theming is evident in theme parks, sex industries, police, families, education, and retail. Marketing psychology now assumes that children have a given degree of unreported income and are thus a viable target market. George Ritzer

3. The Core-periphery Hierarchy Hegemon & cores Semipheripheries Peripheries

4. Global Governance Institutional Precursors: Monotheism, trans-continental empires, Magna Carta, capitalism, secularism, socialism, decolonization, modernity, universal suffrage, globalization. Globalization in its economic, material, linguistic, and other social dimensions is not global governance per se, though its fruition foreshadows its inevitable, cybernetic/legislative consequences. Integral Components: An interstate system (established during the Treaty of Westphalia), international organizations, and a geopolitical climate mediated by a hegemonic cycle.

5. Prevalence of Global Governance in International Affairs Tributary Empires Scope of transportation and communication technology Core Institutional Differentiation Early Capitalism Treaty of Westphalia 1648 Secularization Transnational Capitalism Decolonization Concert of Europe 1815 Maritime Colonialism Abolition United Nations 1945 – League of Nations 1919 – 1946 World War I 1914 – 1918 World War II 1939 – 1945 Proliferation of Transnational Social Movements and Global Governance Institutions A historical trajectory of the developing institutional structure of global governance, not scaled CIA 1947 – American & French Revolutions 1776 & 1789 Continent-wide Colonialism

6. Hegemony and Global Governance geopolitical goals HierarchySovereigntyHegemonyLegitimacy InternalExternal

7. Rate of hegemonic ascent Degree of hegemony Immigration factor Sustainability of hierarchy Rigidity of hierarchy What sustains a hierarchy? If King is right, if no lie can live forever, then what is its lifespan?

8. Global Inequality  GNP Total UN budget Global GDP IGOs

9. The Boundaries of World-systems A world-system is a spatially bound region consisting of interaction networks: Bulk Goods Network (BGN): Rice, corn, heavy commodities. Political Military Network (PMN): Intermarriage, alliance, warfare, treaties. Prestige Goods Network (PGN): Money, jewelry, metal, silk, spices, monetarily dense commodities (lots of value, little mass). Information Network (IN): Language, religion, military strategies, symbolic technology.

10. BGN PMN BGN PMN BGN PMN PGN IN