1. Globalization I Review Questions Geo-Economy The State Global Culture
Homogenization
Hybridizaton

2. Globalization Since 1492 Long-term process Internationalizing
Extension of economic activities across boundaries – quantitative change process
Shallow integration of trade
Globalizing
Functional integration of internationally dispersed activities
Deep integration of investment and contractual obligations

3. What is Happening to the State?
Relevance and power of the state is challenged by:
Transnationals
Regional and international trading blocs
International bodies of jurisdiction (e.g.OECD)
Non governmental organizations (NGOs)
NGOs - non profit organizations
Political or social goals
State of the natural environment,
Observance of human rights,
Welfare of the disadvantaged
Corporate interests
NGOs vary in their methods.
Lobbyists
Programs

4. What would replace the state?
One world government?
New World Order – conspiracy theory
Post cold war US hegemony
Global government by big business
Subordinating human rights to market imperatives: International trade & investment
Global Balkanization
Tribal anarchy
Global Bosnia
Commercial homogeneity
McWorld/Exxon

5. Global Culture:Homogenization
Disappearance of local cultures
Westernization of culture driven by media
Destruction of the local and authentic
Single commodity/single identity world

6. Global Culture? No such thing Identity has intense emotional ties
Cultural attachment is bound in tradition
Mass marketing & pop culture is no threat!
No common pool of memories
No common global way of thinking

7. Global Culture:Hybridization Glocal
Blend of foreign and local, exotic and indigenous
Fusion cuisine, Paul Simon and Graceland
Ethnic communities and schools
Chop Suey