Workshops/foundation seminars1: Globalization,

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Workshops/foundation seminars1: Globalization, Globalizations & Deglobalization: theories and its limits. Globalization definition: The world integration of capitals, markets and communications. (ROSENBERG, Justin. The Follies of Globalisation Theory. London: Verso, 2001, 3.) PRO “globalization would tend to facilitate the world economical and financial movements, developing investments, multina-tional companies, technologies, legal systems, infra-structures and global institutions”. (EICHENGREEN, Barry. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, 19.) CON “the progressive globalization of terrorisms and of many forms of international crime; the exponential growth of clandestine emigration; the deepening of poverty and un-employment in the “peripheries” of the industrial north; the continued erosion of national sovereignties; an even more uniform idea of global multiculturalism competing to diminish cultural diversity, increasing the loss of languages, dialects and ‘traditional’ cultures”. BHAGWATI, Jagdish. In Defence of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 57). Evidence Globalization is more than the common notion of the growing interdependence of the world generally and the formation of global institutions. Evidence Problematic Evidence now shows that the global – whether an institution, a process, a discursive practice, or an imaginary – simultaneous transcends the exclusive framing of national states yet partly inhabits national territories and institutions, including sub-national and even local scales. Nation-state global survival The nation-state as a container of social process continue to work well for many of the subjects studied in the social sciences but they are not helpful in elucidating a great number of questions about globalization and the large array of transnational processes. Global National Thus methods and conceptual frameworks that rest on the assumption that the nation-state is a closed unit and that the state has exclusive authority over its territory cannot fully accommodate a new critical thinking: the fact that a process or an entity is located within the territory of a sovereign state does not necessarily mean its national or of the type traditionally authorized by the state (foreign tourists, embassies, etc.): it might be a localization of the global. Research Agenda There is a need to research the presence of globalizing dynamics in thick social environments that mix national, sub national, local, and non/national elements. The dominant form of globalization – the global corporate economy- is one of several processes. Globalization dynamics 1 Globalization involves two distinct sets of dynamics. One involves the formation of explicitly global institutions and processes, such as the WTO, global financial