Introduction to Globalization Flashcards
The expansion and intensification and social relations and consciousness across world-time and across world space (Manfred Steger)
Globalization
The Core Aspects of Globalization
- Globalization as economic process
- Globalization as a political process
- Globalization as a cultural process
The increasing linkage of national economies through trade, financial flows and foreign direct investment by international firms (Gilpin 2000)
Globalization as economic process
Two Types of Economy
Protectionism
Trade Liberalization
Protecting one’s economy from foreign competition by creating trade barriers
Examples:
Egypt
India
Canada
Protectionism
Reducing trade barriers to make international trade easier between countries
Example:
Philippines
Trade Liberalization
When a business pays outside supplier to provide goods and services rather than doing the work in house
Product Outsourcing
Development of forms of governance that operate at the global scale, whose policies and rules cooperative nations are expected to abide
Globalization as Political Process
As a densely growing network of complex cultural interconnections and interdependencies that characterize modern social life
Globalization as Cultural Process