Political Science 2211E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Product Differentiation, Indian Railways, Canadian Cultural Protectionism
11 Mar 2016
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Comprises three interconnected elements (woods, 2000: expansion of markets increasing cross-border lows of trade and capital. Efects of trade impacing domesic economies costs of trade at all-ime lows. Transnaional corporaions 7,000 to 80,000 since 1970s. How globalizaion efects the lives of people all over the world emerging global culture with spread of media. Westernizaion criical perspecive sees globalizaion as cultural imperialism. Transnaional social movements global civil society new lines of transboundary solidarity is forming, shared interests which are truly global in nature are now picking up (i. e. labour movement, Some argue that borders are now essenially meaningless: hyper-globalizers" global markets, global communicaion, civil society, culture. More nuanced treatments as well: some naions have experienced greater globalizaion than others, coastal vs inland areas (i. e. china, varies case by case globalizaion is fundamentally diferent about new globalizaion (interacion less based on territorial proximity)
