INTLSTD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gini Coefficient, Archaic Globalization, Circadian Rhythm
18 Mar 2017
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Globalization - occurs thru flow of ppl, goods, capital, and ideas ( food should be fast ) Hyper-globalists - globalization is profoundly transformative process, changing the way we live, reducing signif of nation-state. Rejectionists - globalization is a convenient concept for journalists, a catch-all broad term that obscures, doesn"t belong in academic discourse, hyper-globalists are exaggerating/inaccurate. Skeptics (transformationalists) - question extent and signif of globalization, look at scope and chronology of globalization, how global is it really? , nation states are still primary actors in international politics. Rejectionist - started when humans migrated out of africa. Archaic globalization - silk roads (connected han dynasty w/rome and other prts of eu) Medicine, glass, spices, slaves, lucrative silk, ideas (religion and philosophies) Con: limited to old world (not truly global) Con: still not truly global (americas > eu) Scope of trade (gde) and immigration peak (16% of us is immigrants) John keynes, 1914, marvels at drinking tea from across the globe.
