Globalism

The Cold War long defined American foreign policy. American foreign policy was forced to embody American national identity by advocating for economic freedom and countering the Soviet Union across the globe. Once the Cold War ended, the U.S. faced a world with new actors and new challenges. This new world necessitated a new foreign policy as well. After the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy struggled to meet different challenges, but its core objective of spreading American ideology remained. The…

Research Questions: The objective of this paper is to investigate animal welfare and cosmetology from a moral philosophical framework. Is animal testing universally unethical or contingent on circumstance? In particular, is animal testing considered unethical in the cosmetics industry? If so, how do corporate entities, governments, and citizens justify the production and purchase of cosmetic products tested on animals? Are corporations inherently wicked, are the psychopathic, innately selfish,…

Manfred B. Steger proposes the concept of globalization to describe the interpenetration of globalism and nationalism, and in the near future, East Asia and the world’s growing economy, ecologic demand, and culinary cuisine will shift and cause the region to adapt to change and progress in its innovations, stability, and dominance. The future of the East Asian region is contingent on Steger’s concept of globalization, specifically in the multidisciplinary aspects of economy, ecology, and…

Is art really global? The art world often prides itself with its “globalism”, but how global is it? Chin-Tao Wu who is an assistant research fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan raises these questions in her journal”Biennials without borders?” .Wu raises two important questions. Where were the artists born? And, where are they currently living? The relation between the two tell us where the flow is. Wu constructed her data on the Kassel documenta exhibitions that were held between 1968 and…

Everyone who lives in America know that sweatshops are bad, but the question is, is a sweatshop really that bad? Author Pietra Rivoli explains her views on the issue in her novel The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy and breaks it down into why sweatshops are bad and why they are good. Along with Rivoli’s arguments, sweatshops can help stop the war on poverty, drugs, and terror. I believe that sweatshops overall are a good thing to have and that we shouldn’t get rid of them. Pietra…

DKNY KNY is a New York-based fashion house specializing in fashion goods for men and women founded in 1984 by Donna Karan. DKNY sells a more affordable fast fashion line diffusion clothe line and many labels and brands have branched off of the original DKNY label including DKNY Jeans, DKNY Active, DKNY Underwear, DKNY Juniors, DKNY Kids, DKNY Pure. DKNY Men, launched in 1992, consists of tailored suits, dress wear, formalwear, casual wear, sportswear, and shoes. The Donna Karan Beauty collection…

Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton, a systemic history of the cotton trade and globalism throughout history, has a post-colonial edge although it is not strictly within the disciple. In the midst of the statistics about cotton imports and exports, Beckert shows the necessity of “othering” people groups, especially people groups in the…

Penney’s have now decided on an attempt to penetrate the US market. This by no means is an easy task for any business. The US has proven to be a very lucrative market if one can break into the already extremely competitive market place. The US market holds both numerous attractions and causes for concern, which Penney’s must take both into account in order to continue achieving the success that they have had across Europe in the US. The problem with politics Political influences can have an…

Reme Gomez contends that the recent economic crisis in Spain has been used as a scaring tactic by politicians to justify the implementation of new commercial mechanisms in Barcelona. Changes that promotes consumerism and to some extent capitalist globalism neglecting local business and…

“It 's A Bird... It 's A Plane... It 's Propaganda?!?” For years, superhero’s have become ingrained in American culture, spanning over several decades and evolving to spawn new eras of heroes. Now, we find superheroes in almost any form of media. Writers routinely revisit stories to deepen their mythologies and, sometimes, to try to correct faults from the tunnels of the past. Because these characters live throughout history -- many of them are over 60 years old – but unfortunately they don 't…