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Exploring Global Perspectives: An Introduction to Globalization

Dive into the complexities of global issues, interconnections, and historical roots. Study technical, economic, political, cultural, and environmental aspects of globalization. Understand the impact on society and the environment. Course taught by renowned faculty James L. Hevia.

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Exploring Global Perspectives: An Introduction to Globalization

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  1. Course Requirements • Attendance in class and recitation section • Weekly readings and website-exploration • 3 examinations • Paper project • Prompt notification of absence and special requests

  2. PERSPRECTIVES and ORIENTATION • Global Issues, rather than the United States and Global Issues • Focus is on interconnections, dependencies, global inequalities + their historical roots • Overview of thematic Structure of IS Major: IP, GE, TC

  3. FACULTY • James L. Hevia, History and International Studies USAF 1965-1969, Vietnam Veteran, BA and MA Penn State, 1976, 1978; PhD-U. of Chicago, 1986 20 + years of research in archives and museums in London, Paris, Washington, Beijing publications: 2 books and over 20 articles on China-European political and cultural relations

  4. Introduction to Global Issues Globalization I”: Age of Empire(1495-1945?)Globalization II: Modernization and the Age of Development (1945-1979)Globalization III: The Age of Neo-Liberalism and Deregulated Markets (1979-present)

  5. What is Globalization? • One definition: The stretching of economic, political and cultural activities and their integration at increasingly broader scales.

  6. What is Globalization? • Another definition: The stretching of economic, political and cultural activities and their integration at increasingly broader scales. Or -- time-space convergence

  7. Globalization Or -- the widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness

  8. Globalization is an historical process… Gillray’s 1805 caricature of Napoleon and Pitt dividing the world.

  9. MENTAL Globalization = social and political processinvolving various actors and institutions that shape ‘worldviews’

  10. MATERIAL Globalization = links, networks, flows, and interactions that make up a particular world system. Global interactions and flows at changing scales

  11. Forms of Globalization • Technical globalization • Economic globalization • Political globalization • Cultural globalization • Environmental globalization

  12. Technical globalization:time-space convergence • Transportation: • e.g., shipping, railroad, air,…

  13. Communication/ Information :e.g., newspapers, telegraph, telephone, fax, email, WWW,…

  14. Economic globalization • Systems and networks of trade • e.g., trans-Saharan salt-gold trade, trans-Atlantic slave trade, State trading companies, Nike, Reebock, and Liz Clairborne global sourcing strategies • Global production and global factories • e.g., Africa’s cocoa plantations, South American coffee and beef farms, India’s opium farms, North Carolina’s cotton plantations, Ford’s world car

  15. Political globalization • Multi-national organizations: U.N. • Multi-lateral agencies: IMF, WB • International regulatory organizations: WTO • International judicial bodies: World Court • Trans-national agreements: NAFTA • Multi-national unions: EU • Multi-national military structures: NATO

  16. Cultural globalization • Global consumption • e.g., World Music, McDonald’s, Nike • e.g., stimulants and addictives - sugar, tea, coffee, opium • e.g., oil and the automobile • e.g., weapons (AK 47s, land mines, nuclear weapons, anti-terrorist technologies)

  17. Environmental globalization Global climate change Transnational environmental movement

  18. Globalization and environment in the news today • West Nile virus in North Carolina (Durham, Raleigh, and especially Charlotte) • International shipping and the dumping of ballast waters in ports • SARS

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