anti-globalization

Examples of anti-globalization in the following topics:

• Debates over Globalization

  • While proponents argue globalization is beneficial to economic growth, opponents argue that it contributes to global inequality.
  • Those opposed to globalization view one or more globalizing processes as detrimental to social well-being on a global or local scale.
  • Anti-globalization, or counter-globalization, consists of a number of criticisms of globalization, but can be generally described as a criticism of the globalization of corporate capitalism.
  • Opponents of globalization in developed countries are disproportionately middle class and college educated; this contrasts sharply with the situation in developing countries, where anti-globalization movements have been more successful in enlisting a broader group, including millions of workers and farmers.
  • One of the most recent manifestations of the anti-global capitalism movement is the Occupy Movements.

• Globalization and the U.S.

  • Further, environmental challenges such as global warming, cross-boundary water and air pollution, and over-fishing of the ocean are linked with globalization.
  • Academic literature commonly subdivides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization, and political globalization.
  • Multiple anti-globalization movements have emerged out of this concern, protesting against globalization and giving new momentum to the defense of local uniqueness, individuality, and identity.
  • In general, globalization may ultimately reduce the importance of nation states.
  • As a response to globalization, some countries have embraced isolationist policies.

• The Internationalization of the United States

  • Globalization is seen by these proponents as the beneficial spread of liberty and capitalism.
  • The idea of free trade is opposed by many anti-globalization groups, based on the assertion that free trade agreements generally do not increase the economic freedom of the poor or the working class, and frequently make the poor even poorer.
  • The diffusion of certain cuisines such as American fast food chains is a visible aspect of cultural globalization: the two most successful global food and beverage outlets, McDonald's and Starbucks, are American companies often cited as examples of globalization, with over 32,000 and 18,000 locations operating worldwide, respectively, as of 2008.
  • Some critics of globalization argue that it harms the diversity of cultures.
  • In this way, globalization can contribute to the alienation of individuals from their traditions.

• Environmental Protests

  • It focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.
  • The Back-to-the-Land movement combined ideas of environmental ethics with anti-Vietnam War sentiments and other political issues.

• Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval During the Transition to Peace

  • After the war ended, however, the global economy began to decline.
  • Yet a more severe recession hit the United States in 1920 and 1921 when the global economy as a whole fell sharply.
  • The public was so anti-labor union that in 1922, the Harding administration was able to procure a court injunction to destroy a railroad strike of about 400,000 workers.

• A World War

  • The Seven Years War was a global military war involved most of the great global powers of the time, which affected European colonies.
  • The Seven Years War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines (.
  • The attack on the neutral Electorate of Saxony caused outrage across Europe and led to the strengthening of the anti-Prussian coalition.

• The Defense Buildup and the "Evil Empire"

  • While Ronald Reagan worked to restrict the influence of the federal government in people’s lives, he simultaneously pursued interventionist policies abroad as part of a global Cold War strategy.
  • Eager to cure the United States of “Vietnam Syndrome,” he increased the American stockpile of weapons and aided anti-Communist groups in the Caribbean and Central America.
  • As part of the policies that became known as the Reagan Doctrine, the United States also offered financial and logistics support to the anti-communist opposition in central Europe and took an increasingly hard line against socialist and communist governments in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua.
  • As a result of the shootdown—the cause of KAL 007's going astray thought to be inadequacies related to its navigational system—Reagan announced on September 16, 1983 that the Global Positioning System would be made available for civilian use, free of charge, to avert similar navigational errors in future.
  • Under a policy that came to be known as the Reagan Doctrine, Reagan and his administration provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist resistance movements in an effort to manipulate governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America away from communism and toward capitalism.

• Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

  • The war brought America onto the global stage in a way never before experienced.
  • The public was so anti-labor union that in 1922 the Harding administration was able to procure a court injunction to destroy a railroad strike of about 400,000 workers.
  • The speech was the only explicit statement of aims by any of the nations involved in World War I and led to Wilson receiving the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to create a peaceful global community.
  • In many ways World War I pulled America into modernity, while leaving unsettled many older issues and problems that continued through the ensuing years of economic troubles and new global conflict.
  • To understand how World War I changed America’s role in the global arena and the effects the war had on domestic issues and policies.

• The Birth of Political Parties

  • The Democratic-Republicans, who arose out of the Anti-Federalist faction opposing ratification, favored a less-powerful central government and an economy that was built around farming and the trades.
  • The Federalists tended to focus on the financial programs of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, while Democratic-Republican Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson led those who had been prominent in the Anti-Federalist cause.
  • The country also was driven by the global conflict between Great Britain and Revolutionary France during the 1790s.

• Vietnam Becomes Nixon's War

  • An avowed anti-communist since early in his political career, Nixon could make diplomatic overtures to the communists without being accused by the American public of being "soft on communism."
  • Nixon viewed the conflict in Vietnam as merely a small part of the larger tapestry of the United States' relations with other global superpowers.
  • To this end, Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger employed Chinese and Soviet foreign policy gambits to defuse some of the anti-war opposition at home and to pressure North Vietnam into favoring negotiations.
  • This incursion sparked a surge in anti-war activism in the United States.