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 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
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