This meta-category deals with where the local/nationally integrated process meets with the global. It particularly refers to standards ands protocols developed at the boundaries of the nation and globalisation.
Every period is characterised by a certain currency exchange regime and monetary regime. Examples would be the gold standard, fixed or floating exchange rates. Role of central banks and monetary policy and high-finance.
Sovereign and Subaltern Military Strategies and the impact of military infrastructure on global protocols.
Technological standards such as TCP/IP, bodies such as the ITU, norms of air traffic, radio spectrum regulation, etc.
Expressed by institutions and conventions such as WTO, or MAI, or regional and bilateral mechanisms of securing liberalisation and managing on the level of abstract process, seemless flows.
The regional blocks are an important intermediate layer defining protocols.
Norms, laws and technologies regulating the flows of people across sovereign borders.