POLSCI 3EE3 Lecture Notes - Foreign Portfolio Investment, North South Mrt Line, University Of Warwick
11 Nov 2013
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A globalized world is one in which political, economic and cultural and social events become more and more interconnected, and also one in which they have more impact (baylis, smith and owens) Globalization depending on how it is defined, it has elements of power. These favor actors in the global north, rather than actors in the global south. Velocity is the fact that interactions happen quicker. Rise in interactions after the cold war across the oecd. Trade international as a percentage of gdp has grown steadily. Internet used is another method of measuring social interactions. Percentage of the internet users, 6. 2% of them come from africa. Only 13. 5% of the people in africa use the internet. Percentages of people differ in their access to the internet. Warwick university center for the study of globalization rank the degree to which. Assessing globalization: held & mcgrew, hyper globalists, skeptics, transformationalists, fragmentation vs integration, skeptics realists, say that states drive globalization.
