CTW_Lesson_01

• The Contemporary World
• Global Puzzle Challenge: '"I am a bridge that spans the world, connecting minds without touching the ground. Messages flow through me at the speed of light. What am I?"'
• Global Puzzle Challenge: '"I am a journey of products, crossing borders and seas. From manufacturer to consumer, I move with such ease. What am I?"'
• How do things like internet and global trade affect how societies connect and shape the world on a global scale?


  Introduces the concepts of globalization as a process, condition, and ideology. Explores the political scientists', economists', and culture and communication experts' definition of globalization.
• Globalization


  A phenomenon which is something that is difficult to understand and has multiple definitions
• Global Economic Imperialism


  One nation assumes economic power or influence over the others
• Globalism


  A term used to define globalization as an ideology
• Globality


  A term used to mean globalization as a condition
• Global Village


  The world considered as a single community linked by telecommunications
• Cultural Imperialism


  The conviction that there is a "better" culture
• Schottle (1995): 'Globalization stands for quite a large public spread across the world as one of the defining terms of the 20th century social consciousness'
• Globalization is not the same as globalism, which points our aspirations for an end state of affairs wherein values are shared by or pertinent to all the world's five billion people, their environment, their roles as citizens, consumers and producers with an interest in collective action designed to solve common problems. Nor it is universalism – values that embrace all humanity.
• McGrew (1990): 'Globalization is described as something that is comprised of multiple sameness and interconnectedness that go beyond the nation states. It is a process in which individuals and organizations in one part of the world are affected by the activities, affairs and convictions on another part of the globe.'
• Cerny (1997): 'Globalization is a cluster of economic and political frameworks and procedures deriving from the changing marks of the interest and assets that comprise the foundation of the international political economy. -specifically, the expanding structural differences of those interests and assets.'
• Globalism (Steger, 2014b)


  A system of widely shared ideas, patterned beliefs, guiding norms and values, and ideals accepted as truth by some groups
• Five Core Claims of Globalization

  • Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets
  • Globalization is inevitable and irreversible
  • Nobody is in charge of globalization
  • Globalization benefits everyone
  • Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world
• Globalization (for political scientists)

  Serves as a challenge to nation states
• Globalization (for economists)


  Means increase of free trade, speed of trade, global economic organization, and regional trade blocs
• Economic organizations related to globalization

  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • World Bank (WB)
  • World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • International Labor Organization (ILO)
  • European Free Trade Area (EFTA)
  • Mercusor
  • ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA)
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Globalization (for culture and communication experts)


  Refers to the concept of a global village. Through globalization, the world has become a borderless world.
• Globalization (as cultural imperialism)


  The conviction that there is a "better" culture
• Globalization (Steger's 2013 definition)


  The expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world time and world space
• Globalization may be defined and conceptualize from different lenses, but an interdisciplinary definition is necessary.

  
• Pair Activity: Students are tasked with finding and reading an opinion editorial from any reputable newspaper discussing globalization. The objective is to extract the underlying concept of globalization explained in the article.
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