PPT-Globalization: nation-states in global flows

KGA171 The Global Geography of Change Presented by Associate Professor Elaine Stratford Semester 1 Globalization portmanteau and contested term Protest in HongKong against WTO in December 2005. Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist . Dani Rodrik. March 2011. A story of beavers and the fur trade. Great demand for beaver in 17. th. century, considered at the time the most valuable fur. Political Economy of the Global South. Prof. Tyson Roberts. Does Globalization Promote Democracy?. Bhagwati. : Yes. Directly: Rural farmers can bypass dominant classes and take produce directly to market thanks to modern information technology. – scene setting. Professor Louis Brennan. Director Institute for International Integration Studies,. Trinity College Dublin. 2. Where in the world???. “An American worker running Oracle’s database software with Windows on a Dell computer with a Pentium IV microprocessor who takes Prozac in the morning and Viagra at night could have received all those products from ….” . Did you know?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=. YmwwrGV_aiE. Global Village. “The new electronic interdependence reconfigures the world in the image of a global village”. Canadian, Marshall McLuhan. Kupchan. (2012). Globalization and US & EU public’s discontent. Partisan & ideological confrontation. Systemic nature of the nation’s dysfunction: congress standoff. Income inequality & jobless recovery. Globalization: Contested. Roots?. First came into use in 1940s. Theodore Levitt . “Marketing Myopia”. Harvard . Business Review . “. The Globalization of the Market. Harvard . Business Review. Buzzword- 1990s. BA 527 International Marketing. Melike Demirbag Kaplan, PhD. Globalization. Globalization. at a . glance. Definitions. P. rocess. in which the . constraints of geography recede . and in which people become aware that they are receding. States and statehood in world politics . They have been the fundamental building blocks of modern world politics. They are the core political-organizational units. . Nation-states. ; the assumption is that some sort of social and economic, grass-roots ‘nation’ had either pre-existed, or been constructed from above or below and justified through nationalism, to underpin and empower state institutions and political processes. . David M. . Boje, Keynote . June . 8, 2017 at Lille France 12:30-2PM. http://davidboje.com. for link to the SLIDES of David and of Grace Ann. I am an ontologist. An ontologist does storytelling about the social and material situation of global slavery. Michael Woods. w. ith Jesse . Heley. , Francesca . Fois. , Laura Jones, . Anthonia. . Onyeahialam. , Samantha Saville, Marc Welsh. Aberystwyth University, UK. International Symposium on Assemblage Thinking – Mytilene, June 2017. Container ship sailing into Miami, FL.. Our focus in this chapter is the growing economic interaction between peoples and societies spread around the globe. . Expanded by Joe Naumann, UMSL. Relate the concept of space-time convergence to advances in transportation technologies. . Pandemic Economics. Chapter 3. Pandemic Economics, Chapter 3. 1. Topics. Systems of Interconnection. Globalization. Networks. Network Applications. Contagion. 2. Pandemic Economics, Chapter 3. Learning Objectives. Those who celebrate the virtues of globalization uncritically see it as a marvelous contribution of Western civilization to the world.. Great developments like the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in Europe led to massive increase in living standards in the West and now the great achievements of the West are spreading to the rest of the world.. . 5. Global and . subnational. . politics. The . main. . issues. . analyzed. in the . lecture. How . has. . international. and . world. . politics. . been. . analyzed. and . explained. ?.