Bosworth and Gordon: Basic Trends

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Issues and Debates in the Study of Globalization

• Bosworth and Gordon Basic Trends
• Saskia Sassen Post-9/11 Insights on
  Globalization
• Frank Lechner Globalization Debates

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What is new about globalization, according to
Bosworth and Gordon?

• Export-driven world economy
• Rising importance of private capital flows
• Rising migration
• Increased contact and interaction between
  peoples
• Globalization as a project as well as a process

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Over the past decade globalization has been
driven by technological advances..But
globalization has also been driven by policies
and ideas
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What is so controversial about globalization,
acc. to Bosworth and Gordon?

• Winners and losers
• Continuing poverty ¼ worlds population below
  1 a day ½ below 2 a day
• Inequality between rich and poor countries is
  rising
• Environmental concerns and conflict over global
  governance
• Open borders and their effects

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• Sassen Post 9/11 Perspectives
• NPR segment

• The unintended consequences of globalization
• Informal connections piggyback on formal ones
• Psychological changes and migration

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How could poverty, war, and disease in the south
not reach deep into the north over the bridges
global capital has built?

• But there are positive as well as negative
  asymmetries

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Global Cities That dynamic characterizes the
fearsome vitality of globalization. By the time
youre able to describe it, its already
something new. Therein lies our constant
challenge in steering, and humanizing, it.
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Globalization Debates

• Process vs. Project?
• New Era or Nothing New?
• Good or Bad?
• Hard vs. Soft?
• End or Revival of Nation State?
• Cultural Sameness or Difference?