1. Course Requirements Attendance in class and recitation section
Weekly readings and website-exploration
3 examinations
Paper project
Prompt notification of absence and special requests

2. Global Issues, rather than the United States and Global Issues
PERSPRECTIVES and ORIENTATION
Global Issues, rather than the United States and Global Issues
Focus is on interconnections, dependencies, global inequalities + their historical roots
Overview of thematic Structure of IS Major: IP, GE, TC

3. FACULTY James L. Hevia, History and International Studies
USAF , Vietnam Veteran, BA and MA Penn State, 1976, 1978; PhD-U. of Chicago, 1986
20 + years of research in archives and museums in London, Paris, Washington, Beijing
publications: 2 books and over 20 articles on China-European political and cultural relations

4. Introduction to Global Issues
Globalization I”: Age of Empire ( ?) Globalization II: Modernization and the Age of Development ( ) Globalization III: The Age of Neo-Liberalism and Deregulated Markets (1979-present)

5. What is Globalization? One definition:
The stretching of economic, political and cultural activities and their integration at increasingly broader scales.

6. Or -- time-space convergence
What is Globalization?
Another definition:
The stretching of economic, political and cultural activities and their integration at increasingly broader scales.
Or -- time-space convergence

7. Globalization
Or -- the widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness

8. Globalization is an historical process…
Gillray’s 1805 caricature of Napoleon and Pitt dividing the world.

9. MENTAL
Globalization = social and political process involving various actors and institutions that shape ‘worldviews’

10. Global interactions and flows at changing scales
MATERIAL
Globalization = links, networks, flows, and interactions that make up a particular world system.
Global interactions and flows
at changing scales

11. Forms of Globalization
Technical globalization
Economic globalization
Political globalization
Cultural globalization
Environmental globalization

12. Technical globalization: time-space convergence
Transportation:
e.g., shipping, railroad, air,…

14. Communication/ Information : e. g
Communication/ Information : e.g., newspapers, telegraph, telephone, fax, , WWW,…

15. Economic globalization
Systems and networks of trade
e.g., trans-Saharan salt-gold trade, trans-Atlantic slave trade, State trading companies, Nike, Reebock, and Liz Clairborne global sourcing strategies
Global production and global factories
e.g., Africa’s cocoa plantations, South American coffee and beef farms, India’s opium farms, North Carolina’s cotton plantations, Ford’s world car

16. Political globalization
Multi-national organizations: U.N.
Multi-lateral agencies: IMF, WB
International regulatory organizations: WTO
International judicial bodies: World Court
Trans-national agreements: NAFTA
Multi-national unions: EU
Multi-national military structures: NATO

17. Cultural globalization
Global consumption
e.g., World Music, McDonald’s, Nike
e.g., stimulants and addictives - sugar, tea, coffee, opium
e.g., oil and the automobile
e.g., weapons (AK 47s, land mines, nuclear weapons, anti-terrorist technologies)

18. Environmental globalization
Global climate change
Transnational environmental movement

19. Globalization and environment in the news today
West Nile virus in North Carolina (Durham, Raleigh, and especially Charlotte)
International shipping and the dumping of ballast waters in ports
SARS