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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| State Fission | Intrastate conflict, often two or more ethnic groups fighting and pulling the state to extremes. I.e. Syria |
| Local vs. Global Events | ICTs allow events/natural disasters to have a global response. (Philippines driven by social media vs. Wilson Hall suicide.) |
| Globalization and effect on language | World is flatter, singular language controls business transactions. Lingua franca. |
| Criticisms of globalization | Skeptics dont believe globalization has changed the fundamental structure of the world that does/had already existed. |
| Kimberly process | Attempted to stop the flow of blood diamons |
| Samual Huntington | Clash of Civilizations. "Islam has bloody borders.: |
| Democratic deficit | Citizens have less say in what transactional corporations do, even if the corporations operate democratically. Institutions take the decisions away from the people. |
| 1995 Bejing UN women's conference | Hillary Clinton, "Women's rights are human rights." |
| Orgs that regulate global economics | GATT, IMF, WTO |
| Stephen Krasner | Positive sovereignty, capacity for an effective civil government |
| Rosenau | Two worlds in global politics: a state-centric world, and a global centric world. States are in an authority crisis. |
| The Roma | Gypsies |
| Female underside of globalization, and primary victims. | Sex trafficking, Thailand |
| US rank on globalization indices | Now well, behind most western European countries |
| Eco migration | Flooding and other environmental changes that force movement and migration |
| Jagdish Bhagwati | Old Marxist, thought largely influenced globalization |
| Collective good | Clean air, the environment, and other things that everyone has access to. |
| Chaos theory | Finite number of possibilities, but that there are many "random" possibilities |
| Fragmentation | Rosenau theory on groups breaking into pieces smaller than the whole |
| Epistemic communities | Community of experts on a particular subject |
| Insular and Resistant locals | Insular are sheltered/community focused. Resistant are reactant on outside forces. |
| Three institutional pillars of globalization | WTO, World Bank, IMF |
| Global elite and their culture | Speak English, financially secure, educated, live in global cities |
| Ghostnest | Cyberwarfare |
| McDonaldization | Making global products local, multicultural homogeneity. Using a global brand to sell local items. |
| Legitimacy | People being ruled believe the rulers have the right to be in power. |
| Race to the bottom | Efficiency, getting the most output for the least input |
| Suttee | Women throwing themselves on the burning pile of their husbands in India |
| BRICS | Brazil, India, China, South Africa |
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