INTL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: International Studies, Cultural Homogenization, Straitjacket
28 Jan 2017
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Chapter 1: getting your global bearings: navigating the world. International studies is a field of inquiry that examines human relationships that involve cross-border interactions. How and where humans have settled and the degree to which they have interact with one another. Distinguished on the basis of territory, population, governments, and recognition by others. Markets that promote the exchange of goods and services. Form identities in terms of language, religion, ethnicity or a common historical experience. Globalization: political, economic, social and cultural flows across the international system, it includes a broad range of interactions. Hyperglobalization: progressive erosion of the borders that have differentiated national economies and sustained the centrality of nation states. Overall standards of living can be improved. People feel unable to control their lives. Friedman, the lexus and the olive tree. Actions that states must take in order to compete in the global market: Transnational corporations manipulate local economies and ignore local concerns.
