globalization

Examples of globalization in the following topics:

• Politics and the Great Recession of 2008

  • Global political instability is rising fast due to the global financial crisis and is creating new challenges that need to be managed.
  • The 2008–2012 global recession is a massive global economic decline that began in December 2007 and took a particularly sharp downward turn in September 2008.
  • No economic recession since The Great Depression of the 1930s has affected economic input, production and circulation of capital like the current global recession.
  • The global recession affected the entire world economy, hitting some countries more than others.
  • In March 2009, Business Week stated that global political instability is rising fast due to the global financial crisis and is creating new challenges that needed to be addressed.

• Trade

  • The agreement was intended to prevent national trade barriers that could create global economic depressions.
  • The anti-globalization movement is critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism for these reasons.
  • Many anti-globalization activists, however, call for forms of global integration that provide better democratic representation, advancement of human rights, fair trade and sustainable development and therefore feel the term "anti-globalization" is misleading.
  • In general, the anti-globalization movement is especially opposed to the various abuses which are perpetuated by globalization and the international institutions which are believed to promote neoliberalism without regard to ethical standards.
  • The anti-globalization movement is considered a rather new and modern day social movement, as the issues it is fighting against are relevant in today's time.

• Climate Change

  • Global warming policy can be quite contentious because competing interests get involved in the policy-making and implementation process.
  • Global warming, or climate change, is the idea that the actions of human beings are drastically changing weather patterns on the planet, including the temperature.
  • These include many countries in the global south and island nations that will be impacted if the sea levels rise.
  • Because of the global impact of these emissions, international treaties have tried to address the issue.
  • Global warming is disproportionately affecting the polar regions, and changing the landscape for arctic wildlife like the polar bear.

• The International Monetary Structure

  • The main components in the international monetary structure are global institutions (such as the International Monetary Fund and Bank for International Settlements), national agencies and government departments (such as central banks and finance ministries), private institutions acting on the global scale (such as banks and hedge funds), and regional institutions (like the Eurozone or NAFTA).
  • The most important American contribution to the global financial system is perhaps the introduction of the Bretton Woods system.
  • Besides the influence of the U.S. on the Bretton Woods system, it is often claimed that the United States's transition to neoliberalism and global capitalism also led to a change in the identity and functions of international financial institutions like the IMF.
  • Because of the high involvement and voting power of the United States, the global economic ideology could effectively be transformed to match that of the U.S.
  • Notice the global reach of organizations like the WTO.

• United States in the World

  • The global reach of the United States is backed by a $15 trillion economy, approximately a quarter of global GDP, and a defense budget of $711 billion, which accounts for approximately 43% of global military spending.
  • The United States exercises global economic, political, and military influence.
  • The military operates 865 bases and facilities abroad,and maintains deployments greater than 100 active duty personnel in 25 foreign countries.The extent of this global military presence has prompted some scholars to describe the United States as maintaining an "empire of bases. "

• New Media

  • Contradicting these positive appraisals of the potential social impact of new media are scholars such as Ed Herman and Robert McChesney who have suggested that the transition to new media has seen a handful of powerful transnational telecommunications corporations achieve a level of global influence which was previously unimaginable.
  • While this perspective suggests that the technology drives – and therefore is a determining factor – in the process of globalization, arguments involving technological determinism are generally frowned upon by mainstream media studies.
  • People are taking advantage of the Internet to produce a grassroots globalization, one that is anti-neoliberal and centered on people rather than the flow of capital.
  • New media has also recently become of interest to the global espionage community as it is easily accessible electronically in database format and can therefore be quickly retrieved and reverse engineered by national governments.

• National Security Policy

  • An international order advanced by U.S. leadership that promotes peace, security, and opportunity through a stronger cooperation to meet global challenges, and,
  • Current national security concerns in the U.S. include the Drug War in Mexico, terrorism, instability in the Middle East, the national debt, and global warming, among others.
  • While all environmental events are not considered significant enough to be categorized as threats, many transnational issues, both global and regional, stand to affect national security.
  • These include global warming, deforestation, or conflicts over limited resources.

• Collective Military Force

  • The use of collective military force in the global environment involves two primary concepts: collective security and collective defense.
  • Collective security can be understood as a security arrangement, regional or global, in which each state in the system accepts that the security of one is the concern of all, and agrees to join in a collective response to threats to, and breaches of, the peace.
  • Collective security is more ambitious than collective defense in that it seeks to encompass the totality of states within a region or indeed globally, and to address a wide range of possible threats.
  • As a global military and economic superpower, the US has taken charge of leading many of NATO's initiatives and interventions.

• Economic Prosperity

  • The United States is highly influential in the world, primarily because the United States's foreign policy is backed by a $15 trillion economy, which is approximately a quarter of the global gross domestic product (GDP).
  • Similarly, economic prosperity is tied to the maintenance of a global military presence.
  • Cuts to the military and defense spending have been threatened, and this economic crisis will undoubtedly take a toll on the United State's position as a global superpower.
  • The United States' share of world GDP (nominal) peaked in 1985 with 32.74% of global GDP (nominal).

• Interest Groups

  • Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.
  • Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.
  • Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.