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Globalization
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- 1GlobalizationIncreasing social integration of the world
Social relations increasingly global, not local - 2Types of social relations affected by globalization (4)Political: Treaties (whales, human rights..); ex: U.N., US
Cultural: intermingling of cultures (Ex McD) multiculturality or dominance of the cultures of powerful?
Social: international relationships
Crime: global phenomenon - 3Economic GlobalizationMajor focus of globalization: emergence of a system of global capitalism
Global Economic Institutions (world bank) & Actors (govt) - 4Positive view of economic globalizationMost economists
Economic development through economic openness - 5Negative view on economic globalizationDestructive
Destroys local institutions, supresses wages, race to the bottom, limits state power - 6Human HistoryGrowing interactions among people from all parts of the world
Trade and conquest thousands of years ago
EX: European colonization - 7The WillDifferent attitudes towards openness
Global powers pushing their way throughout the world
People more open to outside world, partly due to the Way - 8The WayTwo techno advances made it possible:
Transportation and Communication - 9Effects of Globalization (politics)1. Creates global power elites
2. affects inequality
3. affects gendered politics
4.affects media concentration and ability of state to control it
5. Affects ability of govt to tax - 10Promotes democracy by:1. Institutions: UN, World Bank, IMF
2. Norms: have spread globally (NGOs, media, institutions); important cause of Arab Spring
3. Promoting social movements - 11Global Social movementsCan spread from one region to another
EX: arab spring, occupy wall street - 12Globalization causes SMs in 2 ways1. Promoting political openings
2. Threats - 13Opening (as a cause of SM)Democracy spreads and creates openings
International sanctions: international pressures to allow SMs in non-democracies (global actors and institutions sanction autocrats who crush SMs) - 14Threat (as a cause of SM)Globalization has threatened livelihoods & thereby promoted SMs
(people organize SMs to protect livelihood from impact of globalization)
SAPs - 15Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs)IMF and World Bank
Promotes neoliberal economic reforms (limit govt spending, raise taxes, deregulate markets, pursue free trade, promote floating currencies)
[Stiglitz: neg effects; ideological, cookie-cutter policies) - 16SAPs as Threat (3)Poor: cut subsidies on basic goods, supress wages
Public Sector: SAPs minimize it, so employees oppose
Students/Academics: limit education, increase costs and cut faculty
Groups therefore prone to SM - 17Dual Impact of GlobalizationAnti-Neoliberal movements promoted by confluence of openings and SAPs
Democracy and global actors promoted a political environment favoring SMs
SAPs created threats promoting SMs
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