Globalization - Cotemporary Global Governance Flashcards
United Nations is a global government composed of different nation-states and primarily responsible for the global governance.
FALSE. not a global governance.
Starbucks is a multinational company with a central headquarter, but its branches in different countries have no coordinated product offerings instead, are in charge of somewhat localizing the products and the marketing to fit the culture.
TRUE
Steger’s definition of globalization is the most objective working definition.
TRUE
Future Social Condition characterized by thick economic, political and cultural interconnectedness and global flows that
make currently existing political borders and
economic barriers irrelevant.
GLOBALITY
Dogmatic
Ideology
globalization as an ideology;
Globalism
Refers to the intensification and expansion of political interrelations across the globe;
Political Globalization
Increase of free trade, speed of trade
Economic Globalization
Refers to the concept of a global village
CULTURE GLOBALIZATION
Believes that media has connected the world in ways that created a global village
McLuhan (1964)
Raise an important set of issues pertaining to the principle of state sovereignty, the growing impact of intergovernmental organizations, and the future prospects for regional
and global governance.
Political Globalization
cultural imperialism
the conviction that there is a
“better” culture.
REFERS TO THE EXPANSION AND
INTENSIFICATION OF SOCIAL RELATIONS AND CONSCIOUSNESS ACROSS WORLD-TIME AND WORLD-SPACE
GLOBALIZATION
ENUMURATE FOUR ATTRIBUTES OF GLOBALIZATION
- Globalization has various forms of connectivity;
- It allows for the expansion and stretching of social relations;
- Globalization intensifies and accelerates social exchanges and activities;
4.Globalization occurs worldwide
Refers to the expanding Interdependence of world economies
Economic Globalization
The flow of international capital can be observed in
foreign direct investments (FDI)
A type of investment in which a company establishes a business in another country for production of goods or services and still takes part in the management of that business.
foreign direct investments (FDI)
defines economic globalization as a historical process, the result of human innovation and technological progress.
The International Monetary Fund
Economic globalization can be traced from the time when there
was economic movement in Asia, Africa through the
Silk Road
A network of trade routes that connected the East, particularly China, and the West.
Silk Road
Benczes (2014) identifies four interconnected dimensions of
economy, namely:
—globalization of trade of goods and services
—globalization of financial and capital markets
—globalization of technology and communication
—globalization of production
The first dimension of economic interconnectedness is the establishment of
World Trade Organization (WTO)
The most fitting definition of economic globalization
Szentes’
The process of “making the world economy an “organic system” by extending transnational economic processes and relation to more and more countries and by deepening the economic interdependencies among them”
Economic Globalization by Szentes’
It is a as manager of the national economy that is being redefined by globalization.
Nation-states
The member nation-states of the United Nations have adopted the principle on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and when the issue of Extra Judicial Killings in the Philippines reached the International Criminal Court, they ordered and were allowed to visit and conduct an investigation in the Philippines as one of the UN’s member nation-state.
(T & F)
FALSE
Brodie calls the government as the ______ of globalization.
“midwives”
Actors are now the…
global corporations
One of the actors that facilitate economic globalization
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM
The three global IMS
The gold standard, the Bretton Woods System and the European Monetary System.