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Institute for Research on World-Systems Department of Sociology University of California, Riverside Alexis Álvarez Global Governance and US Hegemony: A Historical Trajectory
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History & Conceptualization What constitutes 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.
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law politics education religioneconomy kinship Functionalist Institutional Lens
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The Formalization of Institutions
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Religion Polity Law Education Kinship Economy Institutions in Agrarian Societies
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Religion Polity Law Education Kinship Economy Institutions during Early Capitalism
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Religion Polity Law EducationKinship Economy Institutions under Transnational Capitalism
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Population Symbolic Bases of Power Coercive Administrative Material Empire Size Systemic Primacy Tributary model of systemic power
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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
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Hegemony and Global Governance geopolitical goals HierarchySovereigntyHegemonyLegitimacy InternalExternal
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League of Nations Expenditures, Swiss Francs World War II 1939 – 1945
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Millions, USD US GDP as % of Global GDP and Total UN Expenditures Fall of USSR Israel Fall of Apartheid Korean War Viet Nam War Iraq War IIraq War II
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Pearson’s r = -0.859
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World Values Survey 2005: World Citizenship and Confidence in the United Nations
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