THE EMERGING SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD

In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 467-495

Abstract

EXAMINES THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY INTERDED INDENT AND INTERCONNECTED AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH THIS REPRESENTS TE EMERGENCE OF A COHERENT, INTEGRATED WORLD SOCIAL SYSTEM. LOOKS AT A WIDE RANGE OF MEASURES OF BOTH INTERDEPENDENCE AND INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND CONCLUDES THAT WHILE WORLD INTERCONNECTEDNESS IS SOARING, INTERDEPENDENCE HAS'T INCREASED MUCH.