IB Global Politics HL - Relevant Theories Questions and Correct Answer 100%

IB Global Politics HL - Relevant Theories Questions and Correct Answer 100% Hyperglobalists - CORRECT ANSWER-Argue that the state is a hollowed out institution and has become redundant. Post-sovereign governance - CORRECT ANSWER-The rise of globalization means that the state inevitably becomes less important as a single actor. Cosmopolitanism - CORRECT ANSWER-The advance of globalization has an ethical dimension. The world has shrunk; people have a greater awareness of people living in other countries and thus it has become more difficult to confine their moral obligations to a single political society: the more they know, the more they care. This implies that people have moral obligations (potentially) towards all other people in the world. Based on three principles: individualism (human beings are the ultimate unit of moral concern), universality (individuals are of equal moral worth), generality (people are objects of concern for everybody, not just their compatriots). O'Neill (1996) used the Kantian notion that we should act on principles that we would be willing to apply to all people in all circumstances. Singer (2002) talks about reducing the overall levels of global suffering, thinking in terms of one world rather than a collected of different people groups. Communitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER-Moral values only make sense when they are grounded in a particular society/time period. Human beings are morally constituted to favour the needs and interests of those with whom they share a culture or national identity. Nationalism - CORRECT ANSWER-Firstly, it is an attitude or identity. An attitude of affiliation, identifying with people from the same community. It assumes that people within a nation will be able to say "I am an X". Secondly, it is an activity designed to achieve and sustain something. Not only are you an X, but you aspire to certain things for your community. Has a face as an identity and as an ideology. The idea that the nation is the most basic entity in global politics. Primordialism - CORRECT ANSWER-National entity results from history. Nations share a common culture and language that dates from way back. Nationalism is a variant of ethnicity and modern nations are basically updated ethnic communities. National identity stems from common descent, a sense of territorial