World Civilizations

The Global Experience AP* Sixth Edition

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Chapter

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Globalization and Resistance

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Globalization and Resistance

I.

II.

Globalization: Causes and Processes Resistance and Alternatives III.

The Global Environment IV.

Toward the Future

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Globalization: Causes and Processes

• What Globalization Means –Causes  China • opening, 1978  Soviet Union •

glasnost

, 1985

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The New Technology

• cellular phone • computers • Internet –World Wide Web  Tim Berners, 1990

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Multinational Corporations in 2000

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Economic Globalization

• Business Organization and Investment • Multinational corporations

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• Continuity

Migration

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Cultural Globalization

• Holidays • Dress • Music

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Institutions of Globalization

• International Monetary Fund (IMF) • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

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Resistance and Alternatives

• Protest and Economic Uncertainties –World Trade Organization –World Bank • Nationalism and New Religious Currents –Religious revival  Russian Orthodoxy  Fundamentalism

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The Global Environment

• Environmental Issues as Global Concerns –Greenhouse effect • Disease –AIDS –Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), 2003

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Globalization and Global Balance

• Shift in Balance of Power

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Toward the Future

• Projecting from Trends • Big Changes • The Problem of the Contemporary Period

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Global Connections: Civilizations and Global Forces

• What will forces of homogenization yield – End of individual civilizations?

– Reactions against globalization – Deep cultural differences persist

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