1. Changes, Champions, and Critics, 1980-2010
Globalization
Changes, Champions, and Critics,

2. Globalization
“the intensification of economic, cultural and political relations across borders”
Globalization: A Preliminary Definition: “an unprecedented compression of time and space reflected in the tremendous intensification of social, political, economic, and cultural interconnections and interdependencies on a global scale.”--Steger, p. ix
Conceptual manifestations: time-space compression; deterritorialization and supraterritoriality
Tangible Manifestations—Multinational corporations, Multinational Organization, almost immediate exchange of goods, ideas, and values.
Unequal beneficiaries; unequal burdens.

3. A critical view of
Globalization from the
U. S. perspective.

4. One way to approach this: think about the world before globalization
Distance mattered—space often measured in time
Territorial boundaries more or less kept things in and out
Society and culture had spatial referents
Everything had its “place” (literally)

5. Globalization and Change
In a world of deterritorialization and supraterritoriality:
Distance becomes almost irrelevant (the end of distance)
Boundaries are increasingly permeable.
Groups and cultures increasingly don’t have a territorial basis (deterritorialization)
A new kind of non-physical “place” is emerging (supraterritoriality)

6. Globalization and Change
Bosworth and Gordon: A survey of some key processes
Expansion of international commerce
Rising importance of private capital flows
Increasing travel and migration
Increased communication and interaction between peoples

7. Globalization and Change
Bosworth and Gordon also point to some of the key public controversies over globalization:
The fact there are winners and losers, and societies vary in how much they compensate the losers
Continuing poverty: ¼ world’s population below $1 a day; over ½ below $2 a day
Inequality between rich and poor is rising
Environmental concerns and conflict over global governance
Open borders and their effects (the piggy-back effect)

8. Globalization and Change
Frank Lechner: Empirical Debates
Process vs. Project
New Era vs. Nothing New (Globabaloney)
Hard vs. Soft
4. End vs. Revival of Nation State
5. Cultural Sameness vs. Difference

9. Globalization and Change
Amartya Sen: Normative Debates (Good vs. Bad)
Whether globalization is a Western curse
Whether globalization fairly benefits the poor
Whether the institutional infrastructure of globalization is adequate

10. So what?
Ongoing challenges: population growth, migration, climate change, environmental degradation, haves and have-nots
“Over the past decade globalization has been driven by technological advances…..But globalization has also been driven by policies and ideas…”--Bosworth & Gordon