Globalization - Syllabus

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Media, Culture and Globalization - Syllabus

Globalization, poverty and development - Syllabus

Unraveling Globalization IPE 361: Syllabus

Globalization And Social Conflict - Syllabus

Globalization and the Information Society: Syllabus

Globalization and Social Change - Syllabus - http://academic.bowdoin.edu/courses/f02/soc225/

Cultural Globalization - Syllabus - http://www.zmk.uni-freiburg.de/CulturalGlobalization/

Globalization and Democracy - The global economy is undergoing rapid and fundamental change that is reshaping political and social relations in the United States and in other nations around the world. - Syllabus - http://www.colorado.edu/IBS/GAD/gad.html

Globalization has had three notable consequences that are relevant for this course.

First, these changes altered the relationships between the federal government, the domestic economy, and domestic programs.

Second, these changes resulted in growing economic inequalities at the global and domestic levels, and these inequalities follow racial lines.

Third, globalization, as the paradox implies, does not mean homogenization, but the increasing significance of particularism (local communities) as well as multiculturalism and pluralism. - unc.edu/~jrblau/Sociology68.html

Globalization And Social Conflict
SO 162 Brown University Department of Sociology
Patrick Heller
Course Description
This course examines globalization as a multidimensional and open-ended process. A wide range of interpretations of globalization’s impact and theories of its transformative dynamics are explored. The course takes for granted only three general propositions. First, to understand globalization it is necessary to understand the history and dynamics of capitalism as both an economic and social system. Second, though globalization is being driven primarily by economic forces, it is deeply and inextricably enmeshed with and mediated by social and political forces. Third, the intensity and effects of globalization are neither uniform nor linear. The impact of globalization varies dramatically across different nations, social classes and sectors, and produces a range of conflicts, reactions and recombinations.
The course is accordingly divided into three broad sections. The first explores the causal processes of globalization, and in particular the transformation of capitalism and the relationship of industrialized capitalist countries to the developing world. The second examines the social and political effects of globalization, including its impact on social structures, the state and democracy. The third examines countervailing forces to economic globalization, in particular reassertions of traditional identities, new social movements and the global democracy movement.
The course is designed not only to engage the debate on globalization, but also to develop a wide range of social sciences concepts and analytical tools. Whenever possible, key themes are developed through comparisons and case studies. The five broadest themes are:

The Capitalist World Economy: Origins and Structures
The study of society and its relationship to the market gave birth to modern sociology. Among the most prominent theorists of the rise of capitalism were Marx, Weber and Polanyi. The transition debate remains of enduring theoretical value, and provides many important lessons and conceptual tools for understanding the current stage of globalization. Examining the origins of capitalism in Western Europe offers historically and comparatively informed insights into the social, political and cultural dimensions of globalization.

Transformation in the Developing World
The outward expansion of European capitalism transformed the world and transformed social structures in the colonies, which in turn gave birth in the post-World War II era to post-colonial projects of state-led development. This period was also marked by the rapid diffusion of institutional forms. For all its transformative powers, however, capitalism has had a very uneven impact on the world. Predictions of convergence notwithstanding, the gap between the developing and developed world persists, and by some accounts has even worsened. States in the developing world have had dramatically varying degrees of success in promoting national economic development and greater social equity.

The New Global Order
Capitalism has long been a driver of global interdependence. Yet, the current phase of globalization represents a qualitatively different stage in the transformation of the world economy. This stage is specifically characterized by the globalization of production, the rise of the service and information sectors, and the increasing power of global financial institutions. The technological characteristics of global production are well known. But how is global production organized and how is it governed? Specifically, we will explore the social and political forces that have propelled the shift from so-called Fordist production (underwritten by Keynesian economic policies and national social contracts) to flexible-specialization forms of production. We will also examine the role of multilateral institutions in shaping the rise of the new global order and, in particular, neo-liberal economic prescriptions.

The Social Impact of the New Global Economy
The effects of economic globalization have been anything but even and uniform, but a common denominator is the increasing subordination of society and nature to the logic of the market. The impact of increasingly unfettered capitalism on the global environment is potentially catastrophic. The increasing mobility of capital has weakened the relative bargaining strength of labor, and the fiscal and institutional capacity of the state to counteract the more socially disruptive effects of the market. In the developing world, the absence of safety nets, the thinness of democracy, and the persistence of social vulnerabilities have exacerbated the dislocating and polarizing effects of globalization. The relentless search for profits and insatiable first world consumption have outstripped global regulatory capacity and resulted in unsustainable levels of resource extraction.

Challenges to Economic Globalization
The transformation of economic structures and geo-political configurations has created new opportunities as well as new tensions. We will explore a set of highly debated causal connections emphasizing variations across the developing world. Are the politicization of "traditional" identities and the resurgence of nationalism a response to Western culture and the increasing dominance of liberal capitalism? How has rapid and often unregulated economic transformation exacerbated ethnic and social tensions? Many reactions to globalization have been defensive in nature, and are often at odds with democratic principles. On the other hand, popular democratic forces, including social movements and new transnational networks of civil society organizations, have increasingly contested neoliberalism.
These democratically inspired movements have challenged neo-liberal policy prescriptions and their modes of implementation, and critiqued such policies as anti-democratic and harmful to the poor. Thus, while globalization has opened up new spaces for democratic politics, it has also unleashed forces that fuel conflict and may even threaten democracy. The empowerment of subordinate groups and the increasing vibrancy of civil society that has accompanied democratic transitions has also, in many instances, triggered demands for more substantive outcomes, including greater equity, and triggered new challenges to the dominance of market forces. In analytical terms, two different—though not necessarily exclusive—alternative projects can be identified:
1) The socialdemocratic response builds on the traditional politics of labor and focuses on the role of an affirmative democratic state in actively alleviating poverty, developing the national economy and managing a more equitable distribution of the gains of global integration.
2) New social movements, located in the resurgence of civil society, have built on new forms of association such as NGOs to cultivate universal identities (the women's, human rights and environmental movements) and to promote sustainable development and grass roots democracy.

Readings:
David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton. Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Castells, Manuel. The Power of Identity. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004 (second edition).
Rodrik, Dani. Has Globalization Gone too Far? Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1997.
Munck, Ronaldo. Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective. Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, CT: 2005.
Silver, Beverly. Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003.

The MSc/MRes degree in Global Politics - has been designed to prepare students to engage critically in debates on the changing nature of international politics, including the future role of states and inter-governmental organisations, the evolution of non-territorial forms of nationalism, and the implications of increasing economic interdependence. - Syllabus - bbk.ac.uk/polsoc/courses/msc_mres/global_politics.php

Communications . Culture, and Society ... SYLLABUS AND READING LIST ... The globalization of culture. "Globalization and Cinema". princeton.edu/~starr/344syll02.html

Media, Culture and Globalization - Syllabus
Tomáš P. Klvana, Ph D
tomas_klvana@bat.com, tomas.klvana@volny.cz

Course description: A veritable buzzword, globalization refers to several newly emerged phenomena. To study it means to delve into several areas in which it manifests itself. These are, to name just the three most visible ones, the economy, culture and politics. In any of these dimensions globalization, as it is discussed in the last twenty years, functions through the media. Media does not portray globalization, but it is its important part. A study of globalization is inherently diverse and eclectic. So is this course. Students will read, watch films, analyze and discuss them. In class discussions and short papers they are expected to engage questions, issues, themes and topics connected to globalization, culture and the media. Special attention will be devoted to the impact of globalization on the late communist and post-communist world, and also to the ways by which the globalization issues are framed and discussed in the media discourse. All assigned texts and films are mandatory. Students are required to follow current events in the media (cable TV, newspapers, Internet). Class participation is expected as it is part of the final grade.

A Globalizing World? Culture, Economics, Politics. ed. David Held. Second Edition. London: Routledge, 2004.
Debating Globalization. ed. David Held, Anthony Barnett, Caspar Henderson. (London: Polity Press, 2005)
Thomas L. Friedman. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)
Francis Fukuyama. State-Building. Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004)
Azar Nafisi. Reading Lolita in Tehran. (London: I B Tauris, 2003)
Robert A. Dahl. On Democracy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)
Anthony Giddens. Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives (Routledge, 2000)
Thomas L. Friedman. The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Anchor Books, Random House, 2000)
Thomas L. Friedman. From Beirut to Jerusalem (New York: Anchor, 1990)
Allan Bloom. Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988)
Czeslaw Milosz. The Captive Mind (New York: Vintage, 1990. Originally published in 1951)
Christopher Patten. East and West (New York: Times Books, Random House, 1999)
Daniel Boorstin. The Image (Scribner, Reissue edition, 1971. Originally published in 1962)
Joseph S. Nye. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, John D. Donahue (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2000)
Democracy.Com: Governance in a Networked World. Edited by Elaine Ciulla Kamarck, Joseph S. Nye (Hollis Publishing Company, 1999)
Civil Society: History and Possibilities. Edited by Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
John K. Glenn, III. Framing Democracy: Civil Society and Civic Movements in Eastern Europe. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).

Globalization, poverty and development - IS 602 / AAE 375: Syllabus
I Introduction
1 Logistics and core issues; course structure and goals
2 Empirical overview. Read: Goldin and Reinert, Ch. 1, 2
3,4 Contending views on globalization. Read: Wolf Ch. 1-7 (excerpts),
Kanbur, Milanovic
5 Contending views: class discussion (Ex. 1: views on globalization)
II Methods
6,7 Basic trade models: H-O, R-V; Stolper-Samuelson, gains from trade.
Read: Appleyard et al Ch. 5, 6, 8, 11 (excerpts)
8,9 Extending trade models: nontraded goods, international factor flows and payments.
Read Appleyard et al. Ch.12 (Ex. 2: modeling exercise)
III Global Interactions
III.A Trade and FDI
10,11 Trade, growth, & development basics (A,M,S; Nigeria, China, India)
Read: Goldin and Reinert, Ch 3
12 Discussion of Ex. 2
13, 14 International trade, development policy and poverty
15 (Midterm 1)
16 FDI and international capital flows
Read: Goldin and Reinert, Ch 4
17, 18 FDI and the East Asian Miracle
19, 20 Effects of FDI on trade and economic welfare
III.B Migration and Remittances
21,22 Migration history and dynamics
Read: Goldin and Reinert, Ch 6
23,24 Remittances and the “brain drain”
25, 26 Case studies, discussions
27 (Midterm 2)
IV Policies
28,29 Policies, outcomes, prospects
Read: Goldin and Reinert, Ch 8
Appleyard, Field and Cobb, 2006. International Economics, 5/e (McGraw-Hill Irwin).
Deardorff, A. The Terms of Trade and Other Wonders: Alan Deardorff’s Glossary of
International Economics (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/, also
published 2005 by World Scientific Press).
Goldin, I., and K. Reinert, 2006. Globalization for Development: Trade, Finance, Aid,
Migration, and Policy. Palgrave MacMillan for the World Bank.
Hatton, T., and J. Williamson, 2005. Global Migration and the World Economy
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Hertel, T., and A. Winters, eds. 2006. Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha
Development Agenda. Palgrave MacMillan. (individual chapters downloadable from
www.gtap.org/poverty)
Kanbur, R., 2001. “Economic Policy, Distribution and Poverty: The Nature of
Disagreements ,” World Development 29(6), June, pp. 1083-94. MadCat
Lindert P., and J. Williamson, 2001: “Globalization and inequality: a long history”
(World Bank Ann. Conf. on Dev. Econ).
Milanovic, B., 2003. “The two faces of globalization: against globalization as we know
it,” World Development 31(4), April, pp. 667-83. MadCat
Sachs, J., 2005. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities For Our Time. New York :
Penguin Press.
Stiglitz, J.E., 2003. Globalization and its discontents (Norton).
The Economist 9/24/05, “Global savings glut.” Links
Wolf, M. 2004. Why Globalization Works. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Unraveling Globalization IPE 361: Syllabus
Michael Veseth, Professor and Director, International Political Economy
Email: Veseth@ups.edu Web: www.ups.edu/faculty/veseth/

Course Description:
The conventional wisdom holds that globalization is the defining dynamic of the current era of world history, but how much do we really know about globalization and its consequences? What is globalization? And what is really new about it? This course seeks to develop a critical understanding of global forces and outcomes through examination of the historical roots of globalization and its economic, political, cultural and ideological dimensions. In short, we will take globalization apart – unravel it – to see what’s at its core. Pre-requisite course: IPE 201.

Course Objectives:
These are the course objectives for students in IPE 361:

Become well acquainted with the current literature on globalization and the corresponding authors, arguments and viewpoints;

Develop a deeper understanding of and exposure to at least one facet of this literature through individual research.

Gain an understanding of globalization as a historical process and be able to explain how the current system of economic globalization is different from previous eras;

Develop a critical understanding of arguments concerning the political and cultural consequences of globalization.

Develop a critical understanding of globalism, the ideology association with globalization today, and the relationship between the rhetoric and reality of globalization today.

Develop research skills necessary for independent analysis of globalization and related topics.

Course Resources:
Tyler Cowen, Creative Destruction. Princeton University Press 2002.

Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. Wiley, 2005.

Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization. Yale University Press, 2002.

Manfred B. Steger. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Michael Veseth, Globaloney. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Michael W. Weinstein (editor). Globalization: What’s New? Columbia University Press, 2005.

Additional readings are posted on Blackboard (Course name IPE361). Go to http://blackboard.ups.edu/webapps/login

Organization of the Course
* denotes a reading posted on the course Blackboard site.

Part I. Globalization in Theory, Practice and in History (3 weeks)
*James, Harold, The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Market Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Steger, Manfred B. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapters 1: Globalization: A Contested Concept and 2: Is Globalization a New Phenomena?
* “Introduction” in David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. Stanford University Press, 1999.

Part II: Economic Globalization (4 weeks)
* Frankel, Jeffrey. 2000. “Globalization of the Economy.” In Governance in a Globalizing World, edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue (Brookings Institution Press).
* Rodrik, Dani. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Institute for International Economics, 1997.
Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Chapter 3: Globalization as Economic Process.
Weinstein, Michael M. (editor), Globalization: What’s New? Columbia University Press, 2005.
Chapter 2. Trade and Globalization, by Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College
Chapter 3. Capital Flows, Financial Crises, and Public Policy, by Charles W. Calomiris, Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Chapter 4. Globalization and Immigration, by George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Chapter 5. Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality, by David Dollar, Development Research Group, World Bank
Chapter 7. The Rich Have Markets, the Poor Have Bureaucrats, by William Easterly, New York University
Chapter 9: Globalization and Patterns of Economic Growth,, by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Part III: Political and Cultural Elements of Globalization (3 weeks)
Cowen, Tyler, Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World’s Cultures. Princeton University Press, 2002.
Ritzer, George. The Globalization of Nothing. Pine Forge Press, 2004.
Hay, Colin. “Globalization’s Impact on the State” in John Ravenhill, Global Political Economy. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Chapters 4: Globalization as Political Process and 5: Globalization as Cultural Process.
Chapter 8. Feasible Globalizations, by Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Weinstein, Globalization: What’s New?
Veseth, Michael. “The End of Geography and the Last Nation-State” in Selling Globalization: The Myth of the Global Economy. Lynne Reinner, 1998.

Part IV: Globalist Rhetoric, Ethics and Ideology (2 weeks)
Singer, Peter. One World: The Ethics of Globalization. Yale University Press, 2002.
Steger, Manfred B. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapter 7: Globalization as Ideological Process.
Chapter 10: The Overselling of Globalization, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University in Weinstein, Globalization: What’s New?
Veseth, Michael. Globaloney: Unraveling the Myths of Globalization. Roman & Littlefield, 2005.

Part V: Globalization Debates (2 weeks).
A series of in-class debates concerning the most important questions raised in the class.

Globalization and the Information Society
Information, Communication and Development
Draft Seminar Syllabus – Version 1.0
Copyright © 1999 – 2006 Derrick L. Cogburn (dcogburn@hotmail.com)
Prof. Derrick L. Cogburn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
The seminar is held on Tuesdays in the virtual seminar room: cave.cotelco.net
Seminar Overview
Illustrated by a wide range of empirical indicators, the world is experiencing a fundamental social, political, economic, and cultural transformation. The underlying processes leading to this transformation are sometimes characterized as globalization with the end result being the development of an information or knowledge society. Within such a dynamic global environment, it is important for students interested in the interdisciplinary fields of information, communication, public policy, international development, and more to have exciting opportunities to engage in cutting-edge learning opportunities that prepare them for these new global realities. This global graduate seminar on Globalization and the Information Society: Information, Communication and Development (Globalization Seminar) is designed to provide such a learning opportunity.

Globalization and Social Theory

International Migration : Globalization's Last Frontier

Globalization, Cultural Identities, And Media Representations

Education, Globalization and Social Change

How "American" Is Globalization

Development Models, Globalization and Economies

Globalization From Below

Civil Society, Globalization and Political Change in Asia

The New Geography of Global Income Inequality

Connectivity in Antiquity: Globalization as a Long-Term Historical Process

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict : Class, State, and Nation in the Age of Globalization

Welfare Discipline : Discourse, Governance and Globalization