1. The GLOBALIZATION debate:A better world for all?Lesson Plan1. Brainstorming: what comes to mind?2. Defining globalization3. Globalization caricatures group work4. Noam Chomsky on globalization5. Global alternatives

2. GLOBALIZATIONINDUSTRIALaccess to foreign goodsworldwide production marketsFINANCIALworldwide financial marketsCAC40 / Dow Jones / FTSENASDAQ / NIKEI DOWECOLOGICALclimate changeglobal warmingwater/air pollutiongreenhouse gasesECONOMICIMF / World Bankglobal common marketfree exchangePOLITICALworld governmentUnited NationsUSA / CHINALINGUISTIC / CULTURALRule of English?35% world mail40% world radio programmes50% world internet traffic 3. Globalization as an historical process origins?Archaic globalization:3rdmillenium B.C. / Hellenistic Age / China / India / Silk RoadProto-globalization:Voyages of discovery during the Renaissance / British, Dutch, Spanishand Portuguese empires in the 16th/17thcenturiesModern:19thcentury steamships and railways / imperialismStopped by depression and WWIRestarts after WWII with Bretton Woods (IMF / World Bank)Acceleration after the fall of the Communist Bloc 1991 4. GROUP 1Globalisation, as internationl trade, is reserved to the big, richernations of the world especially the USA. Globalization asintegration among people around the world is a much smallerphenomenon and there appears to be little understandingbetween the two. 5. GROUP 2The businessman in the middle is overjoyed since he controls bothAmerican and World trade (NAFTA and the WTO). US workers andforeign workers are both exploited. His speech is a parody of MartinLuther Kings speech in Washinton 1963. Corporate globalization isbad for both Americans and foreigners all are exloited. 6. Modern day MNCs operate along the same linesas the East India Company in the 17thand 18thcenturies the exploitation of poorer countriesby rich, powerful nations a form of economiccolonialism: the multinational companyGROUP 3 7. GROUP 4Globalization has direct, often disastrous effects on theenvironment. In the background, the air is polluted, nothing growsand animals die. However, there is always room for profit: the gasmask. Trade and commerce continue in the face of climaticcatastrophe. 8. GROUP 5The document shows a map of the world. We would usually expect to seecountries and frontiers but these have been replaced by multinationalcompany logos. The implication is that it is the companies who now rulethe world rather than nation states frontiers were a barrier to trade andhave been erased. 9. Trying to define globalizationGlobalization is a process of interactionand integration among people, companiesand governments of different nations, aprocess driven by international trade andinvestment and aided by informationtechnology. This process has effects on theenvironment, on culture, on political systems,on economic development and prosperity,and on human well-being in societies aroundthe world.Today, globalization is farther, faster, cheaper and deeper Thomas Friedman NYT 10. Who benefitsfromglobalization? 11. Sea Lines of Communication (SLOCs)Maritime trade and commerce accounts for 90% of the world totalIn 2011, the dollar value of world merchandise trade advanced 19% to $18.2trillion, surpassing the previous peak of $16.1 trillion from 2008 12. In order of importancefor oil transportStrait of HormuzStraits of MalaccaSuez CanalDanish StraitsTurkish Straits(Bosphorus andDardenelles)Bab al MandabPanama CanalBetween 50%and 75% of crude oil is transported by sea so it is necessary to control the checkpointsCheckpoints or ChokepointsIn 2009, China overtook Germany as the third-largest shipowning country, surpassedJapan as the second-biggest shipbuilding country, and replaced India as the busiestship-recycling country. 13. Access to the sea: an imperative in global tradeLandlocked countries 14. Global communications? Cable and satellite linksOWNERSHIP OF PERSONALCOMPUTERS 15. Who benefits from modern globalization ?If we consider the similarities between the world maritime sealinesand the flows in information technology we can come to the folowingconclusion :The documents suggest that the phenomenon of modernglobalization benefits the richer nations of the world (NAFTA the EU East Asia (TRIAD) including China. The triad countries representonly 8% of the world population but 80% of world trade and over 50%of world GDP (Gross Domestic Product).This means that there are parts of the world left behind and evenexcluded from the phenomenon (landlocked countries).The importance of information technology and maritime sea routes isobvious in new global trade and commerce the race to send newsatellites into space and the current tensions for control in the Pacificare further proof of this fact. 16. Globalization is just one particular form ofinternational integrationThis means that there are other possibilities other than theexploitation of poor nations economies and workforce in theinterest of the big multi-national corporations.The poor ______________, they always _____,but thats just _______ _________________.Our system brings __________ __ _______,at least to __________ that ___________.Noam CHOMSKY, professor of linguistics and philosophy MIT 17. GLOBAL ALTERNATIVES?Sustainable Development Fair Trade Slow Movement ...