Assignments

1. Write an Essay on Globalization

Contemporary World
Quiz 1
1. The speedup of movements and exchanges (of human beings, goods, and services, capital,
technologies or cultural practices) all over the planet. – Globalization
2. Refers to the period of time when there is a strong belief that all people are connected, that all
humans share a common fate, and that the survival of the human species on Earth is under danger.
- Global Age
3. Movement of people, things, information, and places due, in part, to the increasing porosity of
global barriers. – Global Flows
4-7 – 4 types of flow
 Interconnected flows
 Multidirectional flows
 Conflicting flows
 Reverse flows
8. Believe that there is such a thing as globalization and that it encompasses virtually the entire
globe.
- Globalist
9. Contend that there is no such thing as globalization. – Skeptics
10 & 11 The idealist position on globalization is that the main drivers of the process are changes in
 thinking and ideas
 information and knowledge
12. Described as an ideology, political strategy, practice, state policy, or advocacy that entails
expanding political and economic authority over additional regions by territorial conquest
- Imperialism
13. The process of gaining full or partial governmental control over another nation, populating it
with settlers, and then economically exploitation it. -Colonialism
14. Developments that take place in a former colony after the colonizing power departs.
-Post-Colonialism
15. Economic, political, and cultural influence of the West on the rest of the world. –
Westernization
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2. Research this following Regional Political Organization and answer the follow up questions:
 ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS)
 ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN)
 AFRICAN UNION (AU)
1. How does Regional Political Organization Works?
2. What makes this 3 Regional Political Organization unique with each other?
3. Examine the relevance of global political structures such as the Regional Political Organization in
light of global flows and processes.

Quiz 2
True or False
1. The origin of the modern nation-state is traced to the Peace of Westphalia, and its treaties which
led to the notion that nation-states are non-autonomous. - False
2. The threats to the nation-independence state's include information flows, undocumented
immigration, new social movements, conflict, terrorism, criminals, drug trafficking, money
laundering, and sex trafficking. – True
3. That governance structures are not all created to meet general functional needs but can also be
developed to pursue narrow interests. – True
4. The nation-state is especially threatened by the global economy and global economic flows. –
True
5. ASEAN was founded in 1968, with Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand
as the original members, to foster regional cooperation in Southeast Asia among its smaller,
developing nations. – False
6. The UN integrates sub-groups that define themselves as a nation with the organizational
structure of the state. – False
7. Globalization creates a sense of interdependence among nations, which could create an
imbalance of power among nations of different economic strengths. – True
8. ASEAN has engaged economically, by way of trade and investments, with all the large economies
of the world. – True
9. Global governance has developed in response to the decline of the nation-state, as well as to
global crises that nation-states cannot control. -True
10. Local civil society now co-exists with “global civil society.” – True
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3. Describe the Global Economic flows by creating a collage.
QUIZ 3
1. Value-adding activities in the production process beginning with raw materials and ending with a
finished product. – Supply Chains
2. Networks of producers involved in producing a finished product.
- International production networks
3. Value-adding chains, global industries, and the sellers of global products.
- Global commodity chains

4. Various phases of production, delivery to final consumers, final disposal. -Global Value Chain
5. Countries involved in a downward spiral of competitiveness. - Race to the bottom
6. Nation-states, firms, and even workers move from low-value to relatively high-value production.
- Industrial upgrading

7. Transfer of activities once performed by an entity to a business (or businesses) in exchange for
money. -Outsourcing
8. Transfer of activities to entities in other countries. - Offshore outsourcing
9. Buying more than one can afford. – Hype-consumption
10. Owing more than one will be able to repay. – Hyper-debt

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