TCW

• Sovereignty


  you have power/ authority
• Positive

  1. Enhanced Connectivity
  2. New opportunities
  3. emerging identities
• Enhanced connectivity


  increased movement of people, goods, and ideas, cultural exchange
• new opportunities


  open doors to trades business ventures, and individual mobility
• emerging identities


  transnational interactions create hybridized cultures and identities
• Negative

  1. widening inequality
  2. environmental degradation
  3. erosion of national sovereignty
• widening inequality

  neoliberal globalization
• environmental degradation


  reinforce exit power structure, gap rich and poor

  -unsustainable production and consumption threaten natural resources
• erosion of national sovereignty


  self determination and cultural authority
• food sovereignty


  a food system in which the people who produce, distribute, and consume food also control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution
• environmental sovereignty


  right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other state or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction
• neo-liberalism


  free market
• capitalism


  maximizes the gap between the rich and the poor
• communism


  -compress or minimize the gap

  -limit or restrict those private properties or corporation
• socialism


  -government restricts

  -every people gain upward mobility
• Neo-liberalism


  government do not control corporations

  -less intervention
• Good


  Panacea to all the ills of the contemporary political, economic, and social organizations
• Bad

  equally vociferously, exacerbating and entrenching inequalities
• Perspectives on Globalization

  1. Marxist
  2. Roland Robertson's Phases of globalization
  3. Keohane and Nye
• Marxist


  -contemporary globalization is simple a more advanced stage in the development of capitalism

  -a product of historical evolution
• First Phase (1400-1750)


  -European exploration

  -global spread of roman catholic church

  -emergence of the westphalian state system
• Second Phase(1750-1875)


  -consolidation of state system

  -first stage of industrial revolution
• Third Phase (1875-1925)


  -second stage of industrial revolution
• fourth phase (1925-1960s)


  -creation of international regimes and institutions with global reach (e.g. IMF, world bank, GATT)
• Fifth phase (1969-present)


  -new patterns of migration

  -rise of information and communication technologies
• Keohane and Nye (2003)

  Thin and Thick Globalization
• Thin Globalization


  interconnectedness of diverse parts of the world but only affect limited people
• Thick Globalization


  created a dense network of extensive and overlapping and relationships and an intensification of economic, social, cultural, and political interdependencies
• Silk Road


  -thin globalization because limited reach benefited small portion of the population

  -trade was dominated by elite merchants and rulers and common people in distant region weren't significantly involved

  -King Darius I

  -130 BC (start)
• Manila-Acapulco-Sevilla Galleon Trade


  example of Thin Globalization in the Phlippines

  1565-September 14, 1815
• Global


  -derived from "globus"

  -a round body, sphere or a ball

  -came intro usage in the 16th century
• Old term of Global

  -all inclusive, comprehensive

  -relating to or embracing the whole of something, or a group of things
• New term of Global

  -started at the end of 19th century

  -relating to the whole world

  -led to "worldwide" (1940s) e.g - world war
• Globality


  it is a social concept referring to the emergence of a global society in the sense that the notion of closed spaces has become illusory so that nothing that happens on earth is only a limited local event
• globalism


  -more politically charged; endowed with neoliberal meanings and values

  -'world market' is now powerful enough to take the place of (local and national) political action
• Globalization


  -a process, period, force and condition
• globalization


  -first entered english lexicon through the webster's dictionary in 1961

  -used to describe the interconnectedness of social events and relationships around the world
• Anthony Giddens


  -Globalization is the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice verse

  -onset of the borderless world (Ohmac, 1992)
• Immanuel Wallerstein (1979)


  -globalization is both the spread of tangible, physical global forces and relations and the spread of an idea
• Roland Robertson (1992)


  -globalization is the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole through the ever increasing proliferation of global connections