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UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION
1.2 INTS 2370
Why I’m not a fan of PowerPoint
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Why the slides are black
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Moving on…
What in the world is going on?
• Globalization: hyper-‐globalists (right and left) to skeptical internationalists
• What it is: complexity, intensity, interdependence, but also neoliberalism
• How to get at it: empirical, ideological, and historical • Issues: impacts, externalities, volatility, winners and losers
Positions on globalization
Hyper-‐globalists: • Borderless world where the national is irrelevant • Neo-‐liberal faction: inevitable, beneficial • Anti-‐globalization faction: harmful in its current form
Skeptical internationalists: • Nothing new about globalization • More open and transnational in the past
Hyper-‐globalization
Geographies of globalization
Globalization: ‘the qualitative transformation of economic relationships across geographical space’ • Complex and changing geographies not one global geography • Examples: GPNs, intrafirm trade, disintegration • Ascribing a single cause/origin for globalization is meaningless • The Four Tendencies (processes): Localizing, Internationalizing Globalizing, Regionalizing
Four Tendencies
What it is NOT
• The world is NOT flat (sorry, Friedman) • The world is NOT borderless (sorry, Ohmae) • Corporations do NOT rule the world (sorry, Korten) • Globalization is NOT always good (sorry, Neoliberals) • Globalization is NOT always bad (sorry, anti-‐globalizers)
History of globalization
• 300 years of the division of labor • Core and periphery relations • Tumultuous 20th century • Current aspects: rising trade, increasing capital flows, growth in TNCs = new patterns of interaction and shifting positions in the global economy
Patterns of production and trade
Global shifts in GDP
