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4th Lecture Globalization
4th Lecture Globalization
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Globalization Defined:
“the inexorable integration of markets, nation states, and
technologies to a degree never witnessed before—in a way that
is enabling individuals, corporations, and nation states to reach
around the world farther, faster, deeper, and cheaper than ever
before.”
Tom Friedman
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Globalization explained
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Three Perspectives on Globalization
First:
Democracy has become global value.
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Second:
This perspective is skeptical of these claims about
globalization.
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
West exports the social structures of modernity - capitalism,
industrialism, rationalism, urbanism, individualism to the
world.
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Engines of Globalization
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Friedman’s 3 Waves of Globalization
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Economic Globalization
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Politics and Globalization
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Technological globalization
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Manifestations of globalization
Communications
Post, Telecommunications / Mass media
Culture
A global culture has emerged.
Travel
Pilgrims, Tourism, Business travellers, Visa free.
Production
Global chains of productions - Apple.
Raw material, production, and marketing, are never within one
state now.
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Ecology
Global atmosphere - climate change, ozone depletion,
radioactive fallout, acid rain.
Health
Research – improved Avrg. life expectancy.
Revolution in medicine.
Global campaigns of health improvement.
But, rapid industrialization is also the source of many new
diseases.
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Globalization in everyday life
Internet
Facebook
Twitter
WhatsApp
Instagram
Email
Skype
Smart phones
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Conclusion!
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.
Today, in digital age, information revolution and communication
revolution, globalization is as vital as water for human life.
However, globalization undermines state, and a threat to the
multiethnic societies;
How and Why?
International integration creates national disintegration.
Lecture by: Zahid Mehmood Zahid, PhD (IR) NDU, NOA Islamabad.