Globalization as Advent of a “Network Society”Stretching:Thickening:Accelerating:Deepening:Globalization: stretching + thickening + accelerating + (stretching x thickening x accelerating) ** Id’s examples. MidtermA Penultimate Consequence Of GlobalizationChristopher Chase Dunn: 5 types of Globalization: Ecological Globalization, Cultural Globalization, Communication Globalization, Political Globalization.Ecological Globalization (Chase-Dun): Ecological degradation has only recently begun to operate o a global scale. The result is a need for global collective action. The PD as a model of collective action problem: How will global public goods be provided in a world of selfish states?Shadow of the future: Prisoners Dilemma. Part of the section of ecological globalization.Chase Dun Common Problems: common problems first becoming recognized and then stimulating collective action is ITSELF a core component process of globalization.Cultural Globalization: Type 1: diffusion of west-originating values of individualism and individual conspicuous consumption to ever larger segments of the human population. Type 2: The diffusion throughout the world of West-Originating institutional practices. QUOTE (recorded)Communication Globalization: Global communication facilitates have the power to move things visible and invisible from one part of the globe o another whether any nation-state likes it or not. This applies not only to economically relevant exchange, but also to ideas.Economic Globalization: trade and investment have increased.Political Globalization: over the pat 100 years or so, the international society of states has been developing both an increasingly consensual international normative order and a set of international political structures that regulate all sorts of interaction: “global governance.”POWER: McGrew “a shrinking world” implies that sites of power and the subjects of power quite literally may be continents apart. Power, whether economic, political, cultural, or military, is increasingly organized and exercised at a distance”Globalization as the advent of a network society. The Work Of Manuel Castells, USC PROFESSOR in Annenberg school. Ideas: Agriculture Revolution – 10,000 years ago, Industrial Revolution – 200 years ago, Information revolution – 70 or so years ago.Defining Network: abstract on blackboard. Significant. For work, for a culture, for a polity, for a social organization... (bullet points)Three main ways to organize the human race: In a world spanning hierarchy. In sovereign autonomous units. In a globe spanning network.Networks vs. hierarchies and sovereign autonomous units: 1) in a network power is dispersed interconnected nodes. 2)nodes connect at switches. Switches: definition blackboard.Final exam question: come up with switches. Key components… (recording) Imagery , money, violence all together a switch is not an actor. 3) no single actor of any kind can predictably, consistently, and decisively control the net.IR Lecture 18Globalization as Advent of a “Network Society”Stretching: Thickening:Accelerating: Deepening:Globalization: stretching + thickening + accelerating + (stretching x thickening x accelerating) ** Id’s examples. MidtermA Penultimate Consequence Of GlobalizationChristopher Chase Dunn: 5 types of Globalization: Ecological Globalization, Cultural Globalization, Communication Globalization, Political Globalization.Ecological Globalization (Chase-Dun): Ecological degradation has only recently begun to operate o a global scale. The result is a need for global collective action. The PD as a model of collective action problem: How will global public goods be provided in a world of selfish states? Shadow of the future: Prisoners Dilemma. Part of the section of ecological globalization.Chase Dun Common Problems: common problems first becoming recognized and then stimulating collective action is ITSELF a core componentprocess of globalization.Cultural Globalization: Type 1: diffusion of west-originating values ofindividualism and individual conspicuous consumption to ever larger segments of the human population. Type 2: The diffusion throughout the world of West-Originating institutional practices. QUOTE (recorded) Communication Globalization: Global communication facilitates have the power to move things visible and invisible from one part of the globe o another whether any nation-state likes it or not. This applies not onlyto economically relevant exchange, but also to ideas. Economic Globalization: trade and investment have increased.Political Globalization: over the pat 100 years or so, the international society of states has been developing both an increasingly consensual international normative order and a set of international political structures that regulate all sorts of interaction: “global governance.”POWER: McGrew “a shrinking world” implies that sites of power and the subjects of power quite literally may be continents apart. Power, whethereconomic, political, cultural, or military, is increasingly organized and exercised at a distance” Globalization as the advent of a network society. The Work Of Manuel Castells, USC PROFESSOR in Annenberg school. Ideas: Agriculture Revolution – 10,000 years ago, Industrial Revolution – 200 years ago, Information revolution – 70 or so years ago. Defining Network: abstract on blackboard. Significant. For work, for a culture, for a polity, for a social organization... (bullet points)Three main ways to organize the human race: In a world spanning hierarchy. In sovereign autonomous units. In a globe spanning network. Networks vs. hierarchies and sovereign autonomous units: 1) ina network power is dispersed interconnected nodes. 2)nodes connect at switches. Switches: definition blackboard. Final exam question: come up with switches. Key components… (recording) Imagery , money, violence all together a switch is not an actor. 3) no single actor of any kind can predictably, consistently, and decisively control the