An Introduction to Global Studies (2009) Chapter 1 part 1

Globalization.

Society should transmit and conserve only achievements that contribute to a better future.

The world is my country; to do good my religion.

More than 4 million lives lost.

It compares global citizenship with traditional definitions of citizenship.

Coltan (columbite-tantalite).

The IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO.

Financing of exploration, development of trading posts, and the groundwork for colonialism.

By examining social, political, and economic processes that affect the world and localities in complex ways.

A mixed economy where both the state and the private sector have roles.

Institutes, associations, academic conferences, and degree-granting programs.

The Internet, email, blogs, RSS feeds, satellites, cell phones, and webcams.

Tantalum, used in capacitors.

It refers to the paradox where countries rich in natural resources often experience less economic growth and worse development outcomes.

It is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary enterprise.

Connecting the dots and adapting to new information.

Programs designed to help debtor nations repay loans by reducing public spending and promoting foreign investment.

An active ethical component that connects academics with action to improve the world.

They led to fewer social programs for the poor and increased poverty.

Approximately three million dollars.

Global Studies, Globalization, and Global Citizenship.

Economic, political, and cultural globalization.

The World Trade Organization, a Geneva-based bureaucracy set up to referee global commerce.

Media coverage of the riots in Seattle.

Subaru has facilities all over the globe while being headquartered in Japan.

To protest and disrupt the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference.

To educate people interested in finding solutions to global problems and making the world a better place.

Rules regulating international economic activities and a stable monetary exchange system.

They used a discipline-specific approach.

War has led to significant destruction of forest areas and biodiversity.

Global citizenship encompasses a broader, more interconnected perspective.

They applied frameworks from their specific disciplines, such as philosophy.

The Early Modern Period, from 1500 to 1750.

It has been mined by warring rebel groups to finance the conflict.

The Bretton Woods Conference held in 1944.

It developed the capacity to deliver information to millions, radically compressing time and space.

It examines the ecology of Africa's conflicts, focusing on resource scarcity and its implications.

Massacres of endangered gorillas and habitat destruction.

Distant events and forces can have a profound impact on local activities, leading to both positive and negative consequences.

One territorial sovereign exerting control over another land, destroying indigenous culture and economies.

Their numbers increased from 7,000 in the 1970s to approximately 50,000 in 2000.

It has intensified and extended global connections and interdependencies.

They triggered waves of migration, leading to population increases in urban centers.

Globalization involves too many different forces and issues to be understood through a single discipline.

Because issues are viewed in global terms rather than solely local or national.

Humanity is interwoven by many threads that grow stronger each day.

A neoliberal agenda focused on integrating and deregulating markets.

It refers to the ways that networks of connections are transcending traditional boundaries, allowing social activities to occur without geographical constraints.

How it compares to other fields, definitions of globalization, and its nature as a phenomenon.

To create a system of rules and institutions to rebuild and regulate the international economy.

A 200 percent increase in the price of bread due to IMF policies.

The Internet, which allows real-time communication across the globe.

Free trade.

IBM released the first personal computer.

It tells stories from Rwanda, highlighting the impact of the genocide.

Increase their understanding of global perspectives and viewpoints.

Innovations in transportation and communication, such as the railroad and the telegraph.

Labor, environmental, consumer protection, student, and religious groups.

Weapons of mass destruction, viral infections, ecological disasters, and human rights.

The compression of time, which increases the velocity of social activity.

To regulate and stabilize the international monetary system and currency exchange rates.

The trade of goods and services by reducing tariffs and other trade barriers.

Rwanda.

A tax placed on imported goods.

The interdependent nature could lead to terror and totalitarianism.

As the processes through which groups of people make decisions, involving authority and power.

It can lead to unexpected connections that may have either positive or devastating consequences for affected groups.

The process whereby non-Western societies adopt ideals and norms from Western countries.

Downsizing government, privatizing state-owned enterprises, deregulating the economy, and removing barriers to global trade.

The total exports and imports of a given country in a given time period.

80 percent.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.

The nation-state system.

Health and environmental problems, such as global climate change.

Initially to loan money for Europe's reconstruction, later to support developing countries' economic development.

The 1980s.

Rules governing international trade agreements.

He abandoned the gold standard, allowing the dollar to fluctuate in value.

It analyzes the complexities and narratives surrounding the Congo Wars.

Politics at the governmental level, including political behavior, governance, and public policy.

Some see it as intrinsically good, others as bad, and some as having both positive and negative effects.

A free trade agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico.

WTO, IMF, and the World Bank.

Coltan is a valuable mineral that has fueled conflict and exploitation in the region.

They integrate theories and methodologies from various disciplines and explore their connections.

By removing environmental regulations and promoting unbridled extraction of natural resources.

Due to its convoluted route through processing companies and manufacturers.

An economic philosophy suggesting economies work best with limited government involvement.

Media designed to reach a mass audience, such as nationwide television and mass-circulation newspapers.

A race to the bottom.

As a process that creates and expands networks of connections that overcome traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries.

World Wars and the Cold War.

More than 40,000 people.

Some conflate globalization with internationalization or equate it with Westernization.

As a complex web of social processes that intensify and expand worldwide exchanges.

It refers to a multidimensional set of social processes creating worldwide interdependencies and exchanges.

It has helped fund conflicts that have devastating consequences for the DRC's people and environment.

The settling of all five continents by hunter-gatherers.

The ongoing crisis in the DRC.

High tariffs and currency devaluation.

The electronic mass media collapses space and time, engendering social interaction on a global scale.

NAFTA and GATT.

The acceleration of technology and the link between the compression of space and time.

The ways in which these complex forces operate both autonomously and in concert with each other.

Purchasing a laptop designed in California but produced in China, with customer service in India.

People who see their local actions as having global consequences and feel responsible for improving global conditions.

A political movement that pairs economic liberalism with development and political liberty, opposing government control over the economy.

It linked the Chinese and Roman Empires, facilitating trade and cultural exchange.

NGOs have called for an embargo on coltan from war zones to prevent exploitation and conflict.

They used pepper spray, tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets.

It explores the connections between mineral wealth, conflicts, and war in the Great Lakes region.

The number of transistors that could be put on a chip would double every year.

It is widening rather than shrinking.

He accused the IMF of practicing 'economic totalitarianism' that kills with famine.

Issues such as the environment and cultural conflict.

They compress time, enabling fast flows and movements of people, information, capital, and goods.

It suggests that geographical constraints on social and cultural arrangements are diminishing.

Global wealth, consumer choice, and international security and peace.

An ideological stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1989.

The World Trade Organization (WTO).

They raised awareness and rallied for change against IMF and World Bank policies.

Global instability, including inflation, low economic growth, high unemployment, and energy crises.

Transistors became smaller, and processing power increased, making computers faster.

They undermine the ability of governments to impose safety, environmental, and wage controls.

The invention of writing and the wheel.