Global Issues

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Sustainability

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everything that we need for survival and wellbeing depends on our natural environment. It creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in harmony.

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Globalization

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is a set of processes that operate simultaneously and unevenly on multiple levels and dimensions.

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Globalists

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People that believe globalization is real and encompasses all of the world.

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Skeptics

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People that believe globalization is not real, but believe globalization is an oversimplification of more complex processes.

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What do Globalist Believe?

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Majority of the world is immersed in globalization, nation state being main actor, multilayered global governance (nation states, IGO’s, TNC’s, NGO’s), Transitional Economy, and global popular culture.

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What do skeptics believe?

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No one process of globalization, but many smaller processes of globalization, nation states are still ascendant, TNC’s are still weak, National Economies are central to the global economy, few companies are transnational, Global culture thesis is being exaggerated.

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What are the six key factors of a contemporary globalization?

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1. New International Division of Labor, 2. Internationalization of Finance, 3. A new technology system, 4. Similarity of International Markets, 5. Transnational Corporations, 6. Transnational Economic Organizations

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What is the difference between “Hard Consumption and Soft Consumption?”

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Hard consumption is the needs of a person, and soft consumption is the wants

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Globaphilia

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an emphasis on the positives of globalization (economic success, personal mobility, and the spread of democracy)

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Globaphobia

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an emphasis on the negatives of globalization (widening of inequality, eroding of local cultures, and environmental degradation)