IGS 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Security, United Nations Secretariat, Member States Of The United Nations
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A technology-driven process of expanding market opportunities for economic exchange. Expanded connectedness = greater sense of awareness of, and responsibility for, what happens in the world. Media and information technologies: television, cell phones, social media, etc. Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. --carnegie endowment for international peace. Many side effects of globalization show no regard for national borders. No do they travel linearly from point a to point b. These problems without passports" are our common enemy . The require concerted global action to manage and solve. Global problems require global governance to address and manage.