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Week 12. Globalization. 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. Outline. Globalization defined Five “scapes” Is globalization new?
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Week 12 Globalization
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
Outline • Globalization defined • Five “scapes” • Is globalization new? • Theoretical implications • Debates • Fragmentation • Globalization vs. Americanization
Five “scapes” • Dimensions of globalization • Processes that facilitate transnational or global interaction • From Appardurai, Modernity at Large
1. Financescape • Global flows of money • Huge volume: $1.5 trillion daily • Goods: $15 trillion annually
2. Mediascape • Capabilities to distribute and disseminate • Information • Images
3. Technoscape • Spread of technology • Interpenetration of borders
4. Ethnoscape • Ease of movement • Volume of movement • Tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guest workers
5. Ideoscape • Global spread of • Ideas • Values • Social movements • Ideology
Anti-globalization • Paradoxes • Localizing in aims • “Glocalization” • “Fragmegration” • Global in scope, organization • Five scapes facilitate anti-globalization
Anti-globalization Prague Washington
Anti-globalization Prague Prague
Is globalization new? • Three schools • Hyperglobalists • Skeptics • Transformationalists
Theoretical implications • Globalization challenges • Realism • Liberalism • Constructivism
Fragmentation • Political dissolution • Yugoslavia • Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia • Czechoslovakia • Indonesia (East Timor) • Moldova (Transnistria)
Fragmentation • Cultural differentiation
Fragmentation • Interactive process: globalization and localization affect each other • Neologisms • “fragmegration” • “chaord” • “glocalization” • “Jihad vs. McWorld”
Jihad vs. McWorld • Benjamin R. Barber, 1996
Globalization vs. Americanization • U.S. dominance over • Media • Finance • Ideas • U.S. also an importer
Preview Questions • What is the “clash of civilizations” thesis? • What is the “end of history” thesis?