Globalization Dr Anna Ross

What is Globalisation?

Conceptual Frameworks

Historians and Worldwide Integration If we conceive globalization as the development, concentration, and increasing importance of worldwide integration, then the concept loses its static character and its aspect of totality. The question is no longer whether the term ‘globalization’ is an adequate description for the present state of the world. Instead, it directs attention to the history of worldwide integration, its development and erosion, its intensity and effects (Globalization: A Short History, 26-7).

The Beginnings of an Irreversible Process of Worldwide Integration, c Three forms of integration: Consolidation empires, especially “gunpowder empires” Religious ecumene Loosely woven networks of long-distance trade In sum, the trend toward greater integration became stronger, not weaker, during this period although it pertained only to expanding regions and not the entire world.

Imperialism, Industrialisation, and Free Trade, 1750-1880 Politically: Europe retreats into itself in this period. But Britain retained a world-wide dominion of the seas, an extensive intervention force, and the world’s most lucrative colonies. Globalisation by adaption Technologically: The Industrial Revolution had an enormous effect on the expansion of worldwide integration Economically: Enthusiasm for free-trade saw the emergence of the global economy

Global Capitalism and Global Crises, 1880-1914 Politically c. 1880: Globalization occurred parallel and simultaneously to state-building Economically: Extensive globalization to WWI and then a phase of deglobalization that ended only after WWII Politically to 1914: Competition on a global scale

Global Capitalism and Global Crises, 1918-45

Globalisation Spit in Two: 1945- mid-1970s

Conclusion Since the end of the 1960s, the postwar structures outlined in the lecture have been changing. This change marks the beginning of the most recent phase of globalization, which is widely believed to be the first real globalization and which receives the most attention from social scientists (Globalization: A Short History).