1 - Globalization and Global Politics

Question 1

What are the three dimensions of Globalization found in academia?

Answer 1

Economic Globalization
Political Globalization
Cultural Globalization

Question 2

What are the 3 Factors of Globalization

Answer 2

Technics: technological changes, particularly in communications.
Economics: the expansion and flow of capital markets.
Politics: the ideas, interests, and power of globalization and its structures.

Question 3

What are the main approaches to conceptualizing Globalization?

Answer 3

• *Materialist**: it is the most common approach and conceives of Globalization as an increase in connectivity, which is open to Empirical and Historical methods.
• *Constructivist**: Globalization in ideational and discursive terms, which has no objective or permanent meaning.
• *Ideological**: a political and economic project, and ideology, project, advanced by the most powerful, to arrange the world to their interests.