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Globalization and Resistance

36. Globalization and Resistance. Globalization and Resistance. Globalization: Causes and Processes Resistance and Alternatives The Global Environment Toward the Future. Globalization: Causes and Processes. What Globalization Means Causes China opening, 1978 Soviet Union

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Globalization and Resistance

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  1. 36 Globalization and Resistance

  2. Globalization and Resistance • Globalization: Causes and Processes • Resistance and Alternatives • The Global Environment • Toward the Future

  3. Globalization: Causes and Processes • What Globalization Means • Causes • China • opening, 1978 • Soviet Union • glasnost, 1985

  4. The New Technology • cellular phone • computers • Internet • World Wide Web • Tim Berners, 1990

  5. Multinational Corporations in 2000

  6. Economic Globalization • Business Organization and Investment • Multinational corporations

  7. Migration • Continuity

  8. Cultural Globalization • Holidays • Dress • Music

  9. Institutions of Globalization • International Monetary Fund (IMF) • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  10. Resistance and Alternatives • Protest and Economic Uncertainties • World Trade Organization • World Bank • Nationalism and New Religious Currents • Religious revival • Russian Orthodoxy • Fundamentalism

  11. The Global Environment • Environmental Issues as Global Concerns • Greenhouse effect • Disease • AIDS • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), 2003

  12. Globalization and Global Balance • Shift in Balance of Power

  13. Toward the Future • Projecting from Trends • Big Changes • The Problem of the Contemporary Period

  14. Global Connections:Civilizations and Global Forces • What will forces of homogenization yield • End of individual civilizations? • Reactions against globalization • Deep cultural differences persist

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