Course Requirements

• Attendance in class and recitation section

• Weekly readings and website-exploration

• 3 examinations

• Paper project

• Prompt notification of absence and special requests

• Global Issues, rather than the United States and Global Issues

• Focus is on interconnections, dependencies, global inequalities + their historical roots

• Overview of thematic Structure of IS Major: IP, GE, TC

PERSPRECTIVES and ORIENTATION

• James L. Hevia, History and International Studies

USAF 1965-1969, Vietnam Veteran, BA and MA Penn State, 1976, 1978; PhD-U. of Chicago, 1986

20 + years of research in archives and museums in London, Paris, Washington, Beijing

publications: 2 books and over 20 articles on China-European political and cultural relations

FACULTY

Globalization I”: Age of Empire (1495-

1945?)

Globalization II:Modernization and the Age of Development

(1945-1979)

Globalization III:The Age of Neo-Liberalism and Deregulated

Markets (1979-present)

Introduction to Global Issues

What is Globalization?

• One definition:

The stretching of economic, political and cultural activities and their integration at increasingly broader scales.

What is Globalization?

• Another definition:

The stretching of economic, political and cultural activities and their integration at increasingly broader scales.

Or -- time-space convergence

Globalization

Or -- the widening, deepening, and speeding up of worldwide

interconnectedness

Globalization is an historical process…

Gillray’s 1805 caricature of Napoleon and Pitt dividing the world.

Globalization = social and political process

involving various actors and institutions that shape ‘worldviews’

MENTAL

Globalization = links, networks, flows, and interactions that make up a

particular world system.

Global interactions and flows at changing scales

MATERIAL

Forms of Globalization

• Technical globalization

• Economic globalization

• Political globalization

• Cultural globalization

• Environmental globalization

Technical globalization:time-space convergence

• Transportation:– e.g., shipping, railroad,

air,…

Communication/ Information :e.g., newspapers, telegraph, telephone, fax, email, WWW,…

Economic globalization

• Systems and networks of trade– e.g., trans-Saharan salt-gold trade, trans-Atlantic

slave trade, State trading companies, Nike, Reebock, and Liz Clairborne global sourcing strategies

• Global production and global factories– e.g., Africa’s cocoa plantations, South American

coffee and beef farms, India’s opium farms, North Carolina’s cotton plantations, Ford’s world car

Political globalization

• Multi-national organizations: U.N.

• Multi-lateral agencies: IMF, WB

• International regulatory organizations: WTO

• International judicial bodies: World Court

• Trans-national agreements: NAFTA

• Multi-national unions: EU

• Multi-national military structures: NATO

Cultural globalization

• Global consumption

– e.g., World Music, McDonald’s, Nike– e.g., stimulants and addictives - sugar, tea,

coffee, opium– e.g., oil and the automobile– e.g., weapons (AK 47s, land mines, nuclear

weapons, anti-terrorist technologies)

Environmental globalization

Global climate changeTransnational environmental movement

Globalization and environment in the news today

• West Nile virus in North Carolina (Durham, Raleigh, and especially Charlotte)

• International shipping and the dumping of ballast waters in ports

• SARS