This is all about Globalisation

1. Globalization at a glance
Introduction to course in
Globalization in the DIR, EU’s,
History and CCG-programmes
Fall 2007

2. What is globalization?
Your turn: what is globalization?
Write down 10 words that come into your
mind…
Is Globalization new?
Is there a difference between
”internationalization” and ”globalization?”

3. Today
What is globalization?
Is globalization new?
Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld
Globalists, sceptics and
transformationalists
Example of practical globalization
Presentation of the course in
Globalization

4. Is Globalization new?
Tradesmen in the 16th Century Europe?
Migration and expanded trade in the
19th Century?
WW II and the creation of new
institutions such as the UN?

5. First message sent by
telegraph in 1844 by Morse

6. The Greatest Iron Ship
S.S. Great Eastern
1858

7. Phone, Bell, 1876
Internet
Cerf, 1973

8. Internationalization vs.
Globalization?
Internationalization supports the nation
state… (Hedetoft, 2002)
Internationalisation is patterns of interaction
and interconnectedness between two or more
nationstates, irrespective of ther specific
geographical location” (Held et al., 1999)
Globalization covers many other levels
(Hedetoft, 2002)
Globalization is the process generating
transcontinental or interregional flows (Held
et al., 1999)

9. What is globalization?
Time and space (things coming in and
going out)
Local/global nexus
A pathology or not an abnormality?
Something that ought to be stopped or
something which cannot be stopped?
(misunderstandings and legitimizations)

10. Fragments of a definition…
An all purpose catch word (Boli et al.
2006)
”Interconnectedness”
”A shared awareness that the world
itself is changing”
”Links, institutions, culture and
consciousness”
”With winners and loosers”

11. A call-center in India

12. Winners and Loosers

13. The View on Cultural Change from
Globalization Frameworks
Hyperglobalizers: homogenization of
world under American popular culture
or Western consumerism
Political Sceptics: thinness of global
culture relative to national cultures.
Transformationalists: intermingling
of cultures and peoples: hybrids and
new forms

15. Barber’s Jihad vs. McWorld
(1992)
McWorld
Interconnectedness
Artificial social
cooperation
Civic mutuality
Integration and
uniformity
”mesmerize the world
with fast music, fast
computers and fast food”
Makes borders go away
Jihad
Cultures against cultures
People against people
Tribe against tribe
Fights against
interdependence
Fights for self-sufficiency
Recreates borders

16. Barber’s image of two
movements
Jihad’s centrifugal whirlwind
McWorld’s centripetal black hole

17. Barber cont.’
The planet is falling a part and coming
together at the very same moment (p.
53, 1992)

18. Who knows this monkey?

20. Course plan
1.Globalization at a glance. An Introduction
(Malene Gram) 5/9/07
2. Globalization – an historical overview I
(Marianne Rostgaard) 12/9/07
3. Globalization – an historical overview II
(Marianne Rostgaard) 19/9/07
4. Globalization, Politics and Economy
(Henrik Plaschke) 26/9/07
5. Globalization and Democracy (Birte
Siim) 3/10/07
6. Globalization and Multiculturalism (Birte
Siim) 10/10/07
7. Globalization and new social movements
(Paul McIlvenny) 17/10/07
8. Globalization and Consumption (Dannie
Kjeldgaard) 24/10/07

21. For next time…
Please read for Marianne Rostgaard’s first
lecture:
Michael Geyer and Charles Bright, World
History in a Global Age, American Historical
Review, Oct. 1995
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, extract from
Pathfinders. A Global History of Exploration.
W.W. Norton and Company 2006, pp.153