Introduction to Globalization E4.9, Week 4

1. Introduction to GlobalizationE4.9, Week 4 Instructor: Dr. Ros Soveacha Institute of Foreign Languages Department of English October 11, 2010

2. Agenda • Logistics • Major Activity 1 • Vocabulary in context • Major Activity 2 • Announcement of Written assignment topic • Major Activity 3 • Group presentation of chapter 2 (p. 28-36)

3. Logistics • 3rd mind map due • Review of Week 3 • Why mentioned Osama bin Laden? • Different definitions of globalization • The globalization scholars & the elephant • Reminder for October 18 • 4th mind map due • Q & A in preparation for Written Assignment • Chapter 3—The economic dimension of globalization (p.37-47) • Group presentation of chapter 3 (p. 37-47) due • Presenters: Hong Sokunthea, Nov Mean Sabbay, Sam Chanmakara, and Yann Vanda. • Return the rubric with the names

4. Major Activity 1: Vocabulary in context(www.dictionary.com) • Rationality: a reasonable view, practice, opinion, etc. • Morality: a system of moral principles. • Myth: any invented story, idea, or concept. • Tyranny: a state ruled by a tyrant or absolute ruler. • Ecology: the study of the relationships between human groups and their physical environment.

5. Major Activity 1: (Cont.) • The Enlightenment: a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine. • The Renaissance: the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world. The Renaissance began in northern Italy and then spread through Europe. • Innovation: introduction of new things or methods. • Liberal: favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. • Metropolitan: refering to a large city, its surrounding suburbs, and other neighboring communities: the New York metropolitan area.

6. Major Activity 1: (Cont.) • Individualism: a social theory advocating the liberty, rights, or independent action of the individual. • Collectivism: the political principle of centralized social and economic control, esp. of all means of production. • Westphalia: a former province in North West Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). • Westphalian sovereignty: the concept of nation-state sovereignty based on two things: territoriality and the absence of a role for external agents in domestic structures. Scholars of international relations have identified the modern, Western originated, international system of states, multinational corporations, and organizations, as having begun at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Both the basis and the conclusion of this view have been attacked by some revisionist academics and politicians, with revisionists questioning the significance of the Peace, and some commentators and politicians attacking the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty)

7. Major Activity 1: (Cont.) • The Middle Ages: the time in European history between classical ancient times and the Italian Renaissance (from about 500 A.D. to about 1350). • Bourgeoisie: (in Marxist thought) the ruling class of the two basic classes of capitalist society, consisting of capitalists, manufacturers, bankers, and other employers. The bourgeoisie owns the most important of the means of production, through which it exploits the working class. • Disparity: inequality or difference, as in age, rank, wages, etc. • Antagonistic: opposing, esp. mutually. • Realm: It is particularly used for those states whose name includes the word kingdom (for example, the United Kingdom), to avoid awkward repetition of the word in a sentence (for example, "The Queen's realm, the United Kingdom..."). It is also useful to describe those countries whose monarchs are called something other than "king" or "queen"; for example, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a realm but not a kingdom since its monarch holds the title Grand Duke rather than King. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realm)

8. Major Activity 1: (Cont.) • The axis powers: It comprised the countries that were opposed to the Allies during World War II. The three major Axis powers include Germany, Japan, and Italy. It is also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers) • The Allies: The Allies of World War II were the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945). Former Axis states contributing to the allied victory are not considered Allied states. The Allies became involved in World War II either because they had already been invaded or were directly threatened with invasion by the Axis or because they were concerned that the Axis powers would come to control the world. The anti-German coalition at the start of the war, on 1 September 1939, consisted of France, Poland, and the United Kingdom. After 1941, the leaders of the British Empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States of America, known as "The Big Three", held leadership of the allied powers. France, before its defeat in 1940 and after Operation Overlord in 1944, as well as China at that time, were also major Allies. Other Allies included Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippine Commonwealth, Poland, the Union of South Africa, and Yugoslavia. During December, 1941, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt devised the name "United Nations (UN)" for the Allies. He referred to The Big Three and China as a "trusteeship of the powerful", and then later "the Four Policemen". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II)

9. Major Activity 2: Announcement of Written assignment topic • I’ll announce it in class.

10. Major Activity 3: Group presentation of chapter 2 (p. 28-36)Steger, M. B. (2003). Globalization: A very short introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. • Presenters: • Doeuy Chandara • Ky Pichchenda • Leak Lydo • Ly Tolarith • Seng Kruy

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