1. Global Politics: The state and globalisation Key terms
Edexcel Politics A-level
Global Politics:
The state and globalisation
Key terms

2. Sovereignty
Absolute and unlimited power and authority.

3. Nation state
Autonomous political community held together by citizenship and nationality.

4. Non-state actors
Participants in international relations with significant power and influence, which are not states.

5. Globalisation
Emergence of a complex web of interconnectedness in many forms.

6. Economic globalisation
Growing economic integration and interdependence of economies through intensified cross-border movement of goods, services, technologies and capital.

7. Political globalisation
Growing importance of international organisations.

8. Cultural globalisation
Growing transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world.

9. Homogenisation and monoculture
Coming together of global cultures and development of a single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension.

10. Interconnectedness
Mutual reliance of two or more groups.

11. World government
Idea of a common political authority with legislative and executive power over states.

12. Global governance
Broad and complex process of decision making at a global level.

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