GLOBL 2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Westernization, Sam Huntington, United States Treasury Security
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The 5 characteristics of global studies that scholars agreed on were that it had to be: transnational, interdisciplinary, contemporary and historical, critical and multicultural, globally responsible. Global studies as an academic field is fairly new. Two popular ways of thinking globally are. Scape culturally shaped understanding of the world. Transnational more than international, stretches beyond borders of nations and regions and stretch across the various areas of the world. Glocalization how local communities are affected by global trends. Local settings can also influence global trends (no beef in mcdee"s india) Osama bin laden recorded in a mountain cave in afghanistan denouncing modernity and secularism and it perfectly captures the complex dynamics of globalization. Contradictory: osama denounces modernity but that is what allows him to deliver a recorded message to billions of people while in a mountain cave. Al-jazeera (state-financed, arabic-language news and current affairs channel that offered limited programming) was a new station and could reach many people thanks to.
