Week 11

Question 1

What is globalisation?

Answer 1

All the processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society

Question 2

What are the four myths of globalisation?

Answer 2

o Is very new
o Destroying the nation: economic power undermining sovereignty, global gov is usurping national sovereignty
o Creating cultural conformity
o Impersonal social forces that threaten to dominate our lives

Question 3

What has globalisation been fuelled by?

Answer 3

1. Reducing costs and reliability of transportation and communication
2. Reducing political barriers to trade and investment

Question 4

What are some factors that are anti-globalisation?

Answer 4

• Geography and social distance
• Language and colonial heritance
• Military Alliances and Security
• Free trade areas
• Political affinity or formality
• Currencies and Trade Barriers

Question 5

What is Westernisation?

Answer 5

• Western civilisation characterised by classical civilisation inheritance (Greek philosophy, roman law, Latin and Christianity), separation of Church and State, Social pluralism, Representative bodies, Individualism
• Westernisation entails the loss of beliefs, languages, concepts, customs, institutions and values

Question 6

What is Hegemony Pax?

Answer 6

A time of wide-ranging stability when there is only a single dominant power

Question 7

What must hegemonic powers have control over?

Answer 7

1. Raw materials
2. Capital
3. Markets
4. Competitive advantage in production of highly valued goods and services

Question 8

What is Pax Sinica?

Answer 8

• Has local experience but not political, economic or cultural hegemony
• Operated on the basis of a greater need on the part of the other state to trade and interact with them rather than any need on the part of the Chinese to do so
• No politics, no economics, no culture

Question 9

What is a potent and historically relevant weapon of economic power?

Answer 9

The threat to cut off of a particular state’s access to one’s own market, while allowing other countries continued access

Question 10

What are the failures of Pax Sinica?

Answer 10

• Macau (established by the Portuguese in 1557 and then became a free port in 1849)
• Hong Kong (captured in 1839 and ceded to the British in 1842).

Question 11

What is terrorism?

Answer 11

• Terrorism: An act to invoke and sustain terror so as to effect political change in the opponent.
• The use or threatened use of violence on a systematic basis to achieve political objectives.

Question 12

What has terrorism caused?

Answer 12

• Compartmentalisation of the world due to lack of security.

* Incursions and imposition over vital areas (Middle East) and abandonment of irrelevant areas (Africa).