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Has cultural globalisation reshaped world politics?

Andrew Heywood examines some of the major ways in which cultural globalisation has reshaped world politics

Companies such as McDonald’s have a global reach. This branch is in Mauritius

Edexcel: Global politics, The state and globalisation

Since the 1980s, it has been impossible to examine world politics without considering the impact of globalisation (Box 1). So-called ‘hyperglobalists’, indeed, have argued that globalisation has changed the contours of world politics so profoundly that the international approach to its study, in which world affairs boils down, essentially, to relations between and among states, has been rendered redundant.

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