Globalization and governance Waltz.Kenneth N PS.Political Science Politics:Dec 1999:32.4:ProQuest Research Library pg.693 2破⅓能 Globalization and Governance n 1979 I described the interdependence become part of American design teams of states as low but increasing.It has without leaving their homelands.Before increased,but only to about the 1910 World War I.the close interdependence level if measured by trade or capital flows of states was thought of as heralding an as a percentage of GNP:lower if mea- era of peace among nations and democ- sured by the mobility of labor.and lower racy and prosperity within them.Associat still if measured by the mutual military ing interdependence,peace,democracy, dependence of states.Yet one feels that and prosperity is nothing new.In his the world has become a smaller one.In- much translated and widely read book. ternational travel has become faster,eas The Great Illusion (1933),Norman Angell ier,and cheaper;music,art,cuisines,and summed up the texts of generations of cinema have all become cosmopolitan in classical and neoclassical economists and the world's major centers and beyond. drew from them the dramatic conclusion The Peony Pavilion was produced in its that wars would no longer be fought be- entirety for the first time in 400 vears,and cause they would not pay.World War I it was presented not in Shanghai or Bei- instead produced the great disillusion. jing,but in New York.Communication is which reduced political optimism to a almost instantaneous. level that remained low almost until the by and more than words end of the Cold War.I say "almost"be- can be transmitted. cause beginning in the 1970s a new opti- Kenneth N.Waltz, which makes the re mism,strikingly similar in content to the Columbia University duced mobility of labor old,began to resurface.Interdependence of less consequence. was again associated with peace and peace High-technology jobs increasingly with democracy,which began can be brought to the workers instead of to spread wonderfully to Latin America the workers to the jobs:foreigners can to Asia.and with the Soviet Union's col Kenneth N.Waltz,1999 James Madison Lecturer PSOnline www.apsanet.org 693 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner.Further reproduction prohibited without permission.Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Globalization and governance Waltz, Kenneth N PS, Political Science & Politics; Dec 1999; 32, 4; ProQuest Research Library pg. 693