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TCW Week 2 Lecture 2 A Globalization 4

The document discusses globalization, defining it as a social condition marked by interconnectedness across economic, political, cultural, and environmental domains. It explores the origins of globalization, emphasizing its historical evolution and the pendulum view of integration versus fragmentation. Additionally, it outlines the various facets of globalization, including cultural, economic, and political aspects, as well as the roles of state and non-state actors.

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TCW Week 2 Lecture 2 A Globalization 4

The document discusses globalization, defining it as a social condition marked by interconnectedness across economic, political, cultural, and environmental domains. It explores the origins of globalization, emphasizing its historical evolution and the pendulum view of integration versus fragmentation. Additionally, it outlines the various facets of globalization, including cultural, economic, and political aspects, as well as the roles of state and non-state actors.

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GLOBALIZATION

The Contemporary World


Week 2 – Lecture 1
OBJECTIVES
Define Globalization
Know the origin of Globalization
Explore the facets of Globalization
DEFINING
GLOBALIZATION
Crossing borders
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GLOBALIZATION
Social condition characterized by a tight global
economic, political, cultural and environmental
interconnectedness and flows that currently
existing boundaries and borders irrelevant

Steger (2009)
Presentation title 5
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GLOBALIZATION
“the expansion and identification of social
relations and consciousness across world-
time and across world space. ”
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GLOBALIZATION
• Creation of new social networks
• Multiplication of existing networks
• Transnational and International in nature
• Transcends boundaries (real or imagined)
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ACTORS IN
GLOBALIZATION
• STATE ACTORS
• NON-STATE ACTORS which includes
Businesses and corporations, Organizations,
Society and individuals, etc.
ORIGINS OF
GLOBALIZATION
It is not new
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ORIGINS OF
GLOBALIZATION
• Modern Phenomenon
• Historical Evolution
• Pendulum View
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MODERN
PHENOMENON
• Globalization as consequence of modernity
• Necessary in evolving and dynamic world
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HISTORICAL
EVOLUTION
• Not new
• Has always been part of human history
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PENDULUM
VIEW
• Globalization swings back and forth
• Process of integration vs fragmentation, or a
process of regionalism and internationalism vs.
isolationism
• A globalized world has its ups and downs
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FACETS OF
GLOBALIZATION
The different “faces”
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FACETS OF
GLOBALIZATION
• CULTURAL
• ECONOMIC
• POLITICAL
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THE
CULTURAL
• Cultural Exchanges
• Shared Identities
• Multicultural Societies
• Trans-nationalism and Trans-nationality
(Migration of State and Non-State actors)
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THE
ECONOMIC
• Economic integration (Regional and Global)
• Free flow of goods and services
• Multinational (or Trans-national) corporations
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WORLD SYSTEMS THEORY


• A THEORY FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
• IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN PROPOSED THAT THE WORLD IS
GROUPED ACCORDING TO THEIR ADVANTAGES
• CORE NATIONS – the origin of Urban Manufacturing and Trade, basically
the source of techniques, research, and ideas of development, the
manufacturers
• PERIPHERY NATIONS – source of raw materials and services needed by the
core nations to enact or make the ideas a reality, the suppliers
• MARGIN NATIONS – where techniques are diffused or being taught, the
consumers
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Presentation title 23
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-visual-
guide-to-europes-member-states/
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rcep-
explained-the-worlds-biggest-trading-bloc-
will-soon-be-in-asia-pacific/
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GLOBAL SYSTEM THEORY


• TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES
• TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL
• TRANSNATIONAL CAPITALIST CLASS
• CULTURAL ELITES
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THE
POLITICAL
• International and Regional Organizations
• Trans-national Organizations
• Treaties and Agreements
• International Civil Society Organizations and
Groups
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“ IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT


ARGUING AGAINST
GLOBALIZATION IS LIKE

”
ARGUING AGAINST THE LAWS OF
GRAVITY..
Kofi Annan
7th Former Secretary-General of UN
THANK YOU
Prepared by Sir France

Week 2 – Lecture 2
Quiz on Asynchronous Day

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