Week 12 Globalization

11/14/20052 Review: Week 11 The Environment –Two approaches to management –A Security Issue –Rio and Kyoto protocols Globalization: Non-state actors –Effects on states –Types of influence

11/14/20053 Outline Globalization defined –Five “scapes” Is globalization new? Theoretical implications Debates –Fragmentation –Globalization vs. Americanization

11/14/20054 What is globalization? ? ?

11/14/20055 Five “scapes” Dimensions of globalization Processes that facilitate transnational or global interaction From Appardurai, Modernity at Large

11/14/ Financescape Global flows of money Huge volume: $1.5 trillion daily –Goods: $15 trillion annually

11/14/ Mediascape Capabilities to distribute and disseminate –Information –Images

11/14/ Technoscape Spread of technology Interpenetration of borders

11/14/ Ethnoscape Ease of movement Volume of movement –Tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guest workers

11/14/ Ethnoscape

11/14/ Ethnoscape

11/14/ Ideoscape Global spread of –Ideas –Values –Social movements –Ideology

11/14/ Ideoscape

11/14/ Anti-globalization Paradoxes –Localizing in aims “Glocalization” “Fragmegration” –Global in scope, organization –Five scapes facilitate anti-globalization

11/14/ Anti-globalization Prague Washington

11/14/ Anti-globalization Prague

11/14/ Is globalization new? Three schools –Hyperglobalists –Skeptics –Transformationalists

11/14/ Theoretical implications Globalization challenges –Realism –Liberalism –Constructivism

11/14/ Fragmentation Political dissolution –Yugoslavia Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia –Czechoslovakia –Indonesia (East Timor) –Moldova (Transnistria)

11/14/ Fragmentation Cultural differentiation

11/14/ Fragmentation Interactive process : globalization and localization affect each other Neologisms –“fragmegration” –“chaord” –“glocalization” –“Jihad vs. McWorld”

11/14/ Jihad vs. McWorld Benjamin R. Barber, 1996

11/14/ Jihad vs. McWorld

11/14/ Globalization vs. Americanization U.S. dominance over –Media –Finance –Ideas U.S. also an importer

11/14/ A test

11/14/ Preview Questions What is the “clash of civilizations” thesis? What is the “end of history” thesis?