GLBL ST 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Thomas Friedman
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Globalization has brought all sorts of gains, more wealth, more resources + more diversity and integration. Problems: continued poverty and inequality, destruction of environment, increasing intolerance. There is a difference between anti-globalization and alter-globalization. Imperialism and colonialism from the 1500s and onwards. Capitalism as world-system: a world system is a multicultural territorial division of labor in which the production and exchange of basic goods and raw materials is necessary for the everyday life of its inhabitants immanuel wallerstein. Imperialism = a form of extension of state power across space. Colonialism = a form of imperialism: formal control over a territory and its people by another, often involving ideologies of superiority and difference between colonized and the colonizer. Leopold, some people say this was the first modern genocide, rubber was a key commodity: middle east and sykes-picot, divided ottoman empire into european power, causes: Inter-imperialist rivalry: domestic politics workers movements such as against conditions in factories, rising nationalism.
