January 24, 2018
Dear Friends and Family,
Technological changes have facilitated the growth of huge international corporations that conduct business throughout the world with instantaneous banking transactions, rapid delivery, and highly efficient low-cost manufacturing. In many instances their products are available worldwide even though they may be produced halfway around the globe (e.g., clothing, electronics, automobiles, etc.) This is economic globalization which is leading the world in globalization processes. It is having a large impact on individual country’s economy, the global economy and the global market.
But the success of economic globalization is putting strains on judicial systems throughout the world as well as on religious values and beliefs. Political systems have also changed little and seemingly are drawing the most attention as the next globalization system. As one author wrote, “There is a clear need for strong international institutions to deal the challenges posed by economic globalization; yet today confidence in existing institutions is weak.” This reference is undoubtedly directed at the United Nations.
Many globalists are theorizing how to best fill this political void. Theories range from doing away with nation-states, to turning the planet into a giant welfare state, to creating a European Union type governance for the world, to reforming and upgrading the United Nations. This segment will provide some insight into the trends, considerations and debate on Market Globalization, Justice Globalization, and Political Globalization. There will be additional excerpts on the question of Global Governance in segment 7.
Next: The next segment will focus on the research findings of Globalization Results to date – what has worked and what hasn’t worked.
Happy Learning,
Harley
Dear Friends and Family,
Technological changes have facilitated the growth of huge international corporations that conduct business throughout the world with instantaneous banking transactions, rapid delivery, and highly efficient low-cost manufacturing. In many instances their products are available worldwide even though they may be produced halfway around the globe (e.g., clothing, electronics, automobiles, etc.) This is economic globalization which is leading the world in globalization processes. It is having a large impact on individual country’s economy, the global economy and the global market.
But the success of economic globalization is putting strains on judicial systems throughout the world as well as on religious values and beliefs. Political systems have also changed little and seemingly are drawing the most attention as the next globalization system. As one author wrote, “There is a clear need for strong international institutions to deal the challenges posed by economic globalization; yet today confidence in existing institutions is weak.” This reference is undoubtedly directed at the United Nations.
Many globalists are theorizing how to best fill this political void. Theories range from doing away with nation-states, to turning the planet into a giant welfare state, to creating a European Union type governance for the world, to reforming and upgrading the United Nations. This segment will provide some insight into the trends, considerations and debate on Market Globalization, Justice Globalization, and Political Globalization. There will be additional excerpts on the question of Global Governance in segment 7.
Next: The next segment will focus on the research findings of Globalization Results to date – what has worked and what hasn’t worked.
Happy Learning,
Harley
GLOBALIZATION – SEGMENT 3
GLOBALIZATION: WHAT IS IT? -- EXCERPTS
DEFINITION: As more people become more connected across larger distances in different ways, they are creating a new world society in which they do more similar things, affect each other's lives more deeply, follow more of the same norms, and grow more aware of what they share. "Globalization" is one name for that process. Globalization occurs in many fields. Applied to a great variety of social practices, from economic to legal to religious, this conveys the inherent diversity of globalization. If some kind of "world society" is emerging, it is also tempting to think that this will leave nation-states behind as hopelessly old-fashioned. If we have more in common with distant peoples, what we have in common with those nearby should matter less. This makes intuitive sense, but we should resist the intellectual temptation. Nation-states are not going away; neither will national identities. Globalization will have to work in and through nation-states.
Source Globalization – The Making of World Society by Frank E. Lechner (2008)
ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: Economic globalization refers to the intensification and stretching of economic connections across the globe. Huge transnational corporations (TNCs), powerful international and gigantic regional business and trade networks like Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) or the European Union (EU) have emerged as major building blocks of the 21st century's global economic order. TNCs are powerful enterprises comprising a parent company and subsidiary units in more than one country, which all operate under a coherent system of decision-making and a common strategy. Their numbers skyrocketed from 7,000 in 1970 to over 100,000 in 2015. Enterprises like General Motors, Wal-Mart, Exxon-Mobil, Mitsubishi, and Siemens. Rivaling nation states in their economic power, these corporations control much of the world's investment capital, technology, and access to international markets. The growing power of TNCs has profoundly altered the structure and functioning of the international economy. 147 super-connected corporations to be exact – control 40% of the total wealth in the network.
Source Globalization by Manfred B. Steger (2017).
The great hope of globalization is that it will raise living standards throughout the world: give poor countries access to overseas markets so that they can sell their goods, allow in foreign investment that will make new products at cheaper prices, and open borders so that people can travel abroad to be educated, work, and send home earnings to help their families and fund new businesses. It is important for developed countries to open their markets to poorer countries – but if the developing countries have no roads or ports with which to bring their goods to market, what good does it do? If productivity in agriculture is so low that farmers have little to sell, then ports and roads will make little difference. Development is a process that involves every aspect of society, engaging the efforts of everyone: markets, governments, NGOs, cooperatives, not-for-profit institutions. A developing country that simply opens itself up to the outside world does not necessarily reap the fruits of globalization.
Source: Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz (2007)
MARKET GLOBALIZATION: You become what you produce. That is the inevitable fate of nations. Specialize in commodities and raw materials, and you will get stuck in the periphery of the world economy. You will remain hostage to the fluctuations in world prices and suffer under the rule of a small group of domestic elites. It you can push your way into manufactures and other modern tradable products, you may pave a path toward convergence with the world's rich countries. You will have greater ability to withstand swings in world markets, and you will acquire the broad-based, representative institutions that a growing middle class demands instead of the repressive ones that elites need to hide behind. In principle, well-functioning markets – both domestic and global – should help countries move up the ladder from commodities to new industries. But in practice there are too many things that can go wrong. Learning new technologies and investing in new products is a difficult process that has many built-in obstacles if a country is not already predisposed toward it.
Source: The Globalization Paradox by Dani Rodrik (2011)
POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION: Political globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of political interrelations across the globe. These processes raise an important set of political issues pertaining to the principle of state sovereignty, the growing impact of intergovernmental organization, and the environmental politics affecting our planet. These themes respond to the evolutions of political arrangements beyond the framework of the nation-state, thus breaking new conceptual and institutional ground. After all, for the last two centuries, humans have organized their political differences along territorial line that generated a sense of 'belonging' to a particular nation-state. Contemporary manifestations of globalization have led to the greater permeation of these old territorial boundaries, in the process softening hard conceptual boundaries and cultural lines of demarcation.
Source: Globalization by Manfred B. Steger (2017)
The international bureaucrats, both American and European have one aim: to cripple the power of we the people of the United States. Ever since the end of the Cold War, they have come to see the unipolar world, dominated by the American democracy, as a dangerous thing. Unwilling to trust the American people with the tremendous power of global leadership, they are trying to marginalize the United States and subsume it within a superstructure of global governance. To them, the prospect of depending on the wisdom of any democratic electorate is problematic. Domestic bureaucrats and supposed international experts seek to ensnare us in a web of laws, regulations, and treaties – using what they call soft power to control us. Implicit in their entire global construct is the notion that these experts know best, and that democracy is a poor substitute for their collective wisdom.
Source: Screwed by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann (2012)
JUSTICE GLOBALIZATION: Dedicated to the establishment of a more equitable relationship between the global North and South, the 'global justice movement' (GJM) agitated for the protection of the global environment, fair trade, and international labor issues, human rights and women's issues. Envisioning the construction of a new world order based on a global redistribution of wealth and power. Calling for a 'Global New Deal' favoring the marginalized and poor, justice globalists seek to protect ordinary people all over the world.
Source: Globalization by Manfred B. Steger (2017)
"The richest 1% of the world's population receive as much as the poorest 57%," laments George Soros in his 2002 book George Soros on Globalization. Closing the gap between the rich and poor nations will require putting curbs on what Soros calls "global capitalism." Soros' solution to the problem is to turn the entire planet into a giant welfare state. In order to squeeze the necessary taxes from today's globalist investor class, Soros calls for the creation of global institutions with the authority to track down and confiscate capital from anyone, anywhere in the world. To this end, Soros recommends the formation of what he calls an Open Society Alliance.
Source: The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. (2011)
Our sovereignty and ability to govern ourselves is under attack by the growing pressure to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). This judicial body, established in 2002, is appropriating the power to itself to overrule all our courts. The powers the ICC is claiming for itself would amount to creating a super tribunal above the Supreme Court, the American president, and our elected Congress. Presidents Clinton and Bush refused to sign onto the court. Both men understood that the operations of the court contradict our most fundamental constitutional rights. The International Criminal Court has no trial by jury. It has no right to a speedy trial. No right to confront your accusers. No presumption of innocence. Many moves to integrate the United States into a global framework can be undone by a subsequent administration. But if we submit ourselves to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, it can’t be undone.
Source: Screwed by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (2012)
RELIGIOUS GLOBALIZATION: Religious globalism struggles against both market globalism and justice globalism as they seek to mobilize a religious community imagined in global terms in defense of religious values and beliefs that are thought to be under severe attack by the forces of secularism and consumerism. Most religions incorporate a sense of a global community united along religious lines, although in general this is largely informal.
Source: Globalization by Manfred B. Steger (2017)
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is a religious and political organization. Close to the Muslim World League of the Muslim Brotherhood, it shares its strategic and cultural vision, that of a universal religious community, the umma, based on the Koran, the Sunna and the canonical orthodoxy of shari'a law. The OIC represents fifty-six countries and the Palestinian Authority considered a state, the whole constituting the universal umma with the community of more than 1.3 billion Muslims.
Not only does the OIC enjoy unlimited power through the European Union and cohesion of all its bodies, but also to this it adds infallibility conferred by religion. Bringing together 56 countries, including some of the richest in the world, it controls the lion's share of the global energy resources. The EU, far from anticipating the problems caused by such a concentration of power and investing in the diversification and autonomy of energy source since 1973, acted to weaken America internationally, in order to substitute for it the UN, the OIC's docile agent.
Source: Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate by Bat Ye'or. (2011)
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
GLOBALIZATION: WHAT IS IT? -- EXCERPTS
DEFINITION: As more people become more connected across larger distances in different ways, they are creating a new world society in which they do more similar things, affect each other's lives more deeply, follow more of the same norms, and grow more aware of what they share. "Globalization" is one name for that process. Globalization occurs in many fields. Applied to a great variety of social practices, from economic to legal to religious, this conveys the inherent diversity of globalization. If some kind of "world society" is emerging, it is also tempting to think that this will leave nation-states behind as hopelessly old-fashioned. If we have more in common with distant peoples, what we have in common with those nearby should matter less. This makes intuitive sense, but we should resist the intellectual temptation. Nation-states are not going away; neither will national identities. Globalization will have to work in and through nation-states.
Source Globalization – The Making of World Society by Frank E. Lechner (2008)
ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: Economic globalization refers to the intensification and stretching of economic connections across the globe. Huge transnational corporations (TNCs), powerful international and gigantic regional business and trade networks like Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) or the European Union (EU) have emerged as major building blocks of the 21st century's global economic order. TNCs are powerful enterprises comprising a parent company and subsidiary units in more than one country, which all operate under a coherent system of decision-making and a common strategy. Their numbers skyrocketed from 7,000 in 1970 to over 100,000 in 2015. Enterprises like General Motors, Wal-Mart, Exxon-Mobil, Mitsubishi, and Siemens. Rivaling nation states in their economic power, these corporations control much of the world's investment capital, technology, and access to international markets. The growing power of TNCs has profoundly altered the structure and functioning of the international economy. 147 super-connected corporations to be exact – control 40% of the total wealth in the network.
Source Globalization by Manfred B. Steger (2017).
The great hope of globalization is that it will raise living standards throughout the world: give poor countries access to overseas markets so that they can sell their goods, allow in foreign investment that will make new products at cheaper prices, and open borders so that people can travel abroad to be educated, work, and send home earnings to help their families and fund new businesses. It is important for developed countries to open their markets to poorer countries – but if the developing countries have no roads or ports with which to bring their goods to market, what good does it do? If productivity in agriculture is so low that farmers have little to sell, then ports and roads will make little difference. Development is a process that involves every aspect of society, engaging the efforts of everyone: markets, governments, NGOs, cooperatives, not-for-profit institutions. A developing country that simply opens itself up to the outside world does not necessarily reap the fruits of globalization.
Source: Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz (2007)
MARKET GLOBALIZATION: You become what you produce. That is the inevitable fate of nations. Specialize in commodities and raw materials, and you will get stuck in the periphery of the world economy. You will remain hostage to the fluctuations in world prices and suffer under the rule of a small group of domestic elites. It you can push your way into manufactures and other modern tradable products, you may pave a path toward convergence with the world's rich countries. You will have greater ability to withstand swings in world markets, and you will acquire the broad-based, representative institutions that a growing middle class demands instead of the repressive ones that elites need to hide behind. In principle, well-functioning markets – both domestic and global – should help countries move up the ladder from commodities to new industries. But in practice there are too many things that can go wrong. Learning new technologies and investing in new products is a difficult process that has many built-in obstacles if a country is not already predisposed toward it.
Source: The Globalization Paradox by Dani Rodrik (2011)
POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION: Political globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of political interrelations across the globe. These processes raise an important set of political issues pertaining to the principle of state sovereignty, the growing impact of intergovernmental organization, and the environmental politics affecting our planet. These themes respond to the evolutions of political arrangements beyond the framework of the nation-state, thus breaking new conceptual and institutional ground. After all, for the last two centuries, humans have organized their political differences along territorial line that generated a sense of 'belonging' to a particular nation-state. Contemporary manifestations of globalization have led to the greater permeation of these old territorial boundaries, in the process softening hard conceptual boundaries and cultural lines of demarcation.
Source: Globalization by Manfred B. Steger (2017)
The international bureaucrats, both American and European have one aim: to cripple the power of we the people of the United States. Ever since the end of the Cold War, they have come to see the unipolar world, dominated by the American democracy, as a dangerous thing. Unwilling to trust the American people with the tremendous power of global leadership, they are trying to marginalize the United States and subsume it within a superstructure of global governance. To them, the prospect of depending on the wisdom of any democratic electorate is problematic. Domestic bureaucrats and supposed international experts seek to ensnare us in a web of laws, regulations, and treaties – using what they call soft power to control us. Implicit in their entire global construct is the notion that these experts know best, and that democracy is a poor substitute for their collective wisdom.
Source: Screwed by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann (2012)
JUSTICE GLOBALIZATION: Dedicated to the establishment of a more equitable relationship between the global North and South, the 'global justice movement' (GJM) agitated for the protection of the global environment, fair trade, and international labor issues, human rights and women's issues. Envisioning the construction of a new world order based on a global redistribution of wealth and power. Calling for a 'Global New Deal' favoring the marginalized and poor, justice globalists seek to protect ordinary people all over the world.
Source: Globalization by Manfred B. Steger (2017)
"The richest 1% of the world's population receive as much as the poorest 57%," laments George Soros in his 2002 book George Soros on Globalization. Closing the gap between the rich and poor nations will require putting curbs on what Soros calls "global capitalism." Soros' solution to the problem is to turn the entire planet into a giant welfare state. In order to squeeze the necessary taxes from today's globalist investor class, Soros calls for the creation of global institutions with the authority to track down and confiscate capital from anyone, anywhere in the world. To this end, Soros recommends the formation of what he calls an Open Society Alliance.
Source: The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. (2011)
Our sovereignty and ability to govern ourselves is under attack by the growing pressure to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). This judicial body, established in 2002, is appropriating the power to itself to overrule all our courts. The powers the ICC is claiming for itself would amount to creating a super tribunal above the Supreme Court, the American president, and our elected Congress. Presidents Clinton and Bush refused to sign onto the court. Both men understood that the operations of the court contradict our most fundamental constitutional rights. The International Criminal Court has no trial by jury. It has no right to a speedy trial. No right to confront your accusers. No presumption of innocence. Many moves to integrate the United States into a global framework can be undone by a subsequent administration. But if we submit ourselves to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, it can’t be undone.
Source: Screwed by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (2012)
RELIGIOUS GLOBALIZATION: Religious globalism struggles against both market globalism and justice globalism as they seek to mobilize a religious community imagined in global terms in defense of religious values and beliefs that are thought to be under severe attack by the forces of secularism and consumerism. Most religions incorporate a sense of a global community united along religious lines, although in general this is largely informal.
Source: Globalization by Manfred B. Steger (2017)
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is a religious and political organization. Close to the Muslim World League of the Muslim Brotherhood, it shares its strategic and cultural vision, that of a universal religious community, the umma, based on the Koran, the Sunna and the canonical orthodoxy of shari'a law. The OIC represents fifty-six countries and the Palestinian Authority considered a state, the whole constituting the universal umma with the community of more than 1.3 billion Muslims.
Not only does the OIC enjoy unlimited power through the European Union and cohesion of all its bodies, but also to this it adds infallibility conferred by religion. Bringing together 56 countries, including some of the richest in the world, it controls the lion's share of the global energy resources. The EU, far from anticipating the problems caused by such a concentration of power and investing in the diversification and autonomy of energy source since 1973, acted to weaken America internationally, in order to substitute for it the UN, the OIC's docile agent.
Source: Europe, Globalization, and the Coming Universal Caliphate by Bat Ye'or. (2011)
The unabbreviated version of the above can be found in the pdf document below.
| glo_3l_what_is_globlization_--_segment_3.pdf |