{"id":74,"date":"2018-01-05T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/world-politics-2018\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T19:30:57","slug":"globalization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/world-politics-2018\/globalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

PART V<\/strong><\/p>\n

I devote this, the final section of our course to the meaning of Globalization<\/strong><\/em> for the Nation State<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The term \u201cglobalization\u201d is frequently used as if it were an entirely new phenomenon.  But I am comfortable with this, ironically, global<\/em> use of the concept because it is so vague.  If we define globalization as a massive expansion in contacts among peoples and an explosion in new technologies, I\u2019m afraid that Genghis Khan (1162-1227 AD) and Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) would be offended by being excluded.  To avoid making the concept extend too far, I will merely focus on a few contemporary ways in which they world has become, as they say, \u201ca smaller place.\u201d  To do this, I will debunk a few popular mythologies about where we are and where we are going.  These are the myths of global rationality; terrorist irrationality; and our end of history.<\/p>\n

35. LECTURE:  Monday,  April 16<\/strong><\/p>\n

Myth #1<\/em>:   \u201cThe spread of global liberalism is rational.\u201d  No, it’s not always rational!  Its effects are often counterproductive and destabilizing.<\/p>\n

Assumption<\/em>:   We tend to associate the idea of \u201cglobalization\u201d with the  spread of our own values.  It\u2019s sheer mythology to imagine that these values are uniformly appropriate for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

Assignments<\/em>:  So, is globalization good or bad?  Or should we frame the question differently?\"\"<\/p>\n

Globalization and the Mythology of Coca-Cola   WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n

Benjamin Barber, \u201cJihad vs. McWorld\u201d PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n

John Rapley: \u201cThe New Middle Ages,\u201d Foreign Affairs<\/em> (May-June 2006)  At JSTOR, then search through ProQuest Social Science Journals:  PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n

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36. NO CLASS:  Wednesday,  April 18<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will be in Dublin, Ireland, hosting a Nanovic Institute distinguished lecture and giving my own lecture at University College-Dublin<\/p>\n

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37. DISCUSSION SECTION:  Friday, April 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discussion sections will not be held today.  Please use this time to catch up on your old reading assignments and complete the assignments for Ro and Omar’s lecture on Monday.<\/p>\n

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38. LECTURE:  Monday,  April 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

Special Lecture<\/em>.  Ro and Omar will give the lecture today: “Reflections on the expansion and consequences of neoliberalism”<\/i><\/p>\n

Please read the following articles in preparation for this lecture:<\/p>\n

Stahler Schok, Vanden, and Kuecker, “Globalizing Resistance”  READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Kenneth Roberts, “Latin America’s Populist Revival,” SAIS Review of International Affairs, Volume 27, Number 1, Winter-Spring
\n2007, pp. 3-15  READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Gerardo Otero, “Neo-liberal Globalization, NAFTA, and Poverty”  READ<\/a><\/p>\n

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39. <\/strong>LECTURE:  Wednesday, April 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Myth #2<\/em>:  \u201cGlobal Terrorism is irrational.\u201d  No, it’s often frighteningly rational!<\/p>\n

Reflections on terrorism:  My focus on the rational roots of inhumanity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sanche de Gramont, \u201cThe Transformation of Moral Idealism into Violent Revolution\u201d PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Dale Eickelman: \u201cThe public sphere, the Arab \u2018Street\u2019, and the Middle East\u2019s Democracy Deficit\u201d: HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Osama bin Laden: \u201cTranscript of Speech,\u201d Al Jazeera.com<\/span>, Nov. 1, 2004 READ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe French Colonialist\u2019s Global Comeuppance,\u201d Foreign Policy<\/em>, January 2015 PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n


\n40. DISCUSSION SECTION:  Friday, April 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paragraph Assignment: <\/em> Has political history, as we have known it (see Fukuyama) come to an end, or are we destined to relive the conflicts of the past (see Stanley and Lee)?<\/p>\n

For this discussion, read only<\/span> Fukuyama’s Introduction and Sections 3 and 4.  You should complete these readings before<\/em> this section meeting:<\/p>\n

Francis Fukuyama: \u201cEnd of History,\u201d National Interest<\/em>, Summer 1989  PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Timothy Stanley and Alexander Lee, \u201cIt\u2019s still not the end of history\u201d PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n

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41. LECTURE:  Monday, April 30<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reflections on liberal democracy:  My bias for hope
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\nToday\u2019s Assumption<\/em>: It\u2019s hard to be optimistic about the chances for global liberalism, but it\u2019s reasonable to be hopeful.<\/p>\n

Assignments<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Samuel Huntington: \u201cDemocracy\u2019s Third Wave,\u201d  Journal of Democracy<\/em>, Spring 1991. See JSTOR at PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Knowledge@Wharton, \u201cLew Gerstner\u2019s turnaround tales at IBM,\u201d READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Cas Mudde, “It’s fashionable to say that democracies are dying” PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"42. LECTURE:  Wednesday, May 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Myth #3<\/em>:  \u201cWe are the end of history.\u201d   No way!  We are only kidding ourselves when we make this assumption.  This attitude explains why the United States is so unpopular throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s assumption<\/em>: The world is not ours to control.  Still, I believe that we can take some steps to make it better for ourselves and, equally important, for others.  Another way framing the issue is: On why liberalism is not enough.<\/p>\n

My bias for perspective about our limitations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read these short essays in sequence and ask yourself whether each will lead us in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Yuval Lewin, “Taking the Long Way”: READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Stuart Jeffries, \u201cWelcome to the new age of uncertainty\u201d:  READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Kurt Andersen, \u201cThe end of the world as they know it\u201d  READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Erica Goode, \u201cIs humanity getting better?\u201d  READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Kelly J. Baker, \u201cWhy I remain hopeful,\u201d Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>  READ<\/a><\/p>\n

Alan Weisman, \u201cThe World Without Us\u201d WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n

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Your final essay assignment is HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a5<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes<\/em> 9:11  \u201cI returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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