POL 1102 Study Guide - Mantra, Comparative Advantage, Fredric Jameson

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: All

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Definitions: the concept of globalization reflects sense of an immense enlargement of world communications. Highly contested concept: there are two fundamentally opposed views with respect to the essence and the beginning of this phenomenon. Globalization is: an active process of corporate expansion across borders and, a structure of cross-border facilities and economic linkages steadily growing and transforming, globalization is also an ideology. To reduce any resistance to the process, pr strategy based on the following main arguments: beneficial, unstoppable (tina there is no alternative , margaret thatcher) Fiscal deregulation (good for the corporations, bad for everyone else in order to secure quality, regulation is necessary) Critique: alternative rewording for: a struggle between protection of transnational corporate (tnc) rights versus the freedom of democratic governments to regulate in the interests of domestic non-corporate constituencies. Globalization: good/bad dichotomy (depending on the ideological affiliation, new-old phenomenon dichotomy (depending on the specific definition)