Week 12

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Week 12

• Globalization

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Review Week 11

• The Environment
• Two approaches to management
• A Security Issue
• Rio and Kyoto protocols
• Globalization Non-state actors
• Effects on states
• Types of influence

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Outline

• Globalization defined
• Five scapes
• Is globalization new?
• Theoretical implications
• Debates
• Fragmentation
• Globalization vs. Americanization

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What is globalization?
?
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Five scapes

• Dimensions of globalization
• Processes that facilitate transnational or global
  interaction
• From Appardurai, Modernity at Large

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1. Financescape

• Global flows of money
• Huge volume 1.5 trillion daily
• Goods 15 trillion annually

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2. Mediascape

• Capabilities to distribute and disseminate
• Information
• Images

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3. Technoscape

• Spread of technology
• Interpenetration of borders

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4. Ethnoscape

• Ease of movement
• Volume of movement
• Tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guest
  workers

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4. Ethnoscape
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4. Ethnoscape
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5. Ideoscape

• Global spread of
• Ideas
• Values
• Social movements
• Ideology

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5. Ideoscape
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Anti-globalization

• Paradoxes
• Localizing in aims
• Glocalization
• Fragmegration
• Global in scope, organization
• Five scapes facilitate anti-globalization

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Anti-globalization
Prague
Washington
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Anti-globalization
Prague
Prague
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Is globalization new?

• Three schools
• Hyperglobalists
• Skeptics
• Transformationalists

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Theoretical implications

• Globalization challenges
• Realism
• Liberalism
• Constructivism

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Fragmentation

• Political dissolution
• Yugoslavia
• Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia
• Czechoslovakia
• Indonesia (East Timor)
• Moldova (Transnistria)

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Fragmentation

• Cultural differentiation

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Fragmentation

• Interactive process globalization and
  localization affect each other
• Neologisms
• fragmegration
• chaord
• glocalization
• Jihad vs. McWorld

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Jihad vs. McWorld

• Benjamin R. Barber, 1996

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Jihad vs. McWorld
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Globalization vs. Americanization

• U.S. dominance over
• Media
• Finance
• Ideas
• U.S. also an importer

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A test
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Preview Questions

• What is the clash of civilizations thesis?
• What is the end of history thesis?