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| Question | Answer |
| Globalization | Increasing social integration of the world Social relations increasingly global, not local |
| Types of social relations affected by globalization (4) | Political: Treaties (whales, human rights..); ex: U.N., US Cultural: intermingling of cultures (Ex McD) multiculturality or dominance of the cultures of powerful? Social: international relationships Crime: global phenomenon |
| Economic Globalization | Major focus of globalization: emergence of a system of global capitalism Global Economic Institutions (world bank) & Actors (govt) |
| Positive view of economic globalization | Most economists Economic development through economic openness |
| Negative view on economic globalization | Destructive Destroys local institutions, supresses wages, race to the bottom, limits state power |
| Human History | Growing interactions among people from all parts of the world Trade and conquest thousands of years ago EX: European colonization |
| The Will | Different attitudes towards openness Global powers pushing their way throughout the world People more open to outside world, partly due to the Way |
| The Way | Two techno advances made it possible: Transportation and Communication |
| Effects of Globalization (politics) | 1. Creates global power elites 2. affects inequality 3. affects gendered politics 4.affects media concentration and ability of state to control it 5. Affects ability of govt to tax |
| Promotes democracy by: | 1. Institutions: UN, World Bank, IMF 2. Norms: have spread globally (NGOs, media, institutions); important cause of Arab Spring 3. Promoting social movements |
| Global Social movements | Can spread from one region to another EX: arab spring, occupy wall street |
| Globalization causes SMs in 2 ways | 1. Promoting political openings 2. Threats |
| Opening (as a cause of SM) | Democracy spreads and creates openings International sanctions: international pressures to allow SMs in non-democracies (global actors and institutions sanction autocrats who crush SMs) |
| Threat (as a cause of SM) | Globalization has threatened livelihoods & thereby promoted SMs (people organize SMs to protect livelihood from impact of globalization) SAPs |
| Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) | IMF and World Bank Promotes neoliberal economic reforms (limit govt spending, raise taxes, deregulate markets, pursue free trade, promote floating currencies) [Stiglitz: neg effects; ideological, cookie-cutter policies) |
| SAPs as Threat (3) | Poor: cut subsidies on basic goods, supress wages Public Sector: SAPs minimize it, so employees oppose Students/Academics: limit education, increase costs and cut faculty Groups therefore prone to SM |
| Dual Impact of Globalization | Anti-Neoliberal movements promoted by confluence of openings and SAPs Democracy and global actors promoted a political environment favoring SMs SAPs created threats promoting SMs |
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