Globalization and
Global Society
Course Supervisor:
Dr. Rong-yang Huang
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Outline
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Agenda One
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Globalization and You
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Agenda Two
Globalization and Globalism
Agenda Three
Is There a “Global Society”?
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Globalization and You
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What globalization is?
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“…a process that embodies a
transformation in the spatial
organization of social relations
and transactions, generating
transcontinental or interregional
flows and networks of activity,
interaction, and power.”
(Held & McGrew, 1999)
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What globalization is?
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It is not a single process but involves four
distinct types of “change”:
1. Stretches (social, political, economic
activities across political frontier, regions,
and continents.)
2. Intensified (our dependence on each
other, as flows of trade, migration and
culture increase.)
3. Speeds up (the world. Including ideas,
goods, information, capital and people.)
4. Deeper (distant events have a deeper
impact on our lives.)
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What globalization is?
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What globalization is?
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What globalization is?
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What globalization is?
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What globalization is?
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What globalization is?
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What globalization is?
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What globalization is?
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A “big idea” or cliché?
Can we give it more precisely?
Interconnectedness of everybody?
The absence of hierarchies in global
networks?
What limits on the power of
government?
What role of individual will be?
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From government to governance model
Global change flow
Multi-centric
world
State-centric
world
Governance model
transition
Government
model
governance
model
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Integration
Authority
Fragmentation
Global governance：inclusive words
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Micro
Global governance flow
Changing
patterns of
global life
Macro
Changing
patterns of
global order
Individual actor
(J. Rosenau, 2000)
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Globalization is a paradox
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Fragmegration = Fragmentation
+ Integration
Globalization is a reasonable paradox
Glocalization or global localism
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Yes, it’s you!
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Globalization at risk?
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Governance dilemma
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* Democracy deficit:
Who is participating in?
Who should take
responsibility?
* Global inequality:
Ungovernable 
regime change
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Globalization and Globalism
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Globalization:
1. an objective process
2. the world is
“compressing”
Globalism:
1. a subjective thought
2. a global “consciousness”
is needed
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A gift or curse from the West？
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Westernization？
Americanization？
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How to judge globalism?
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Global interdependences and
movements
Are the poor getting poorer?
Global justice and the bargaining
problem
Altering global arrangements
Institutions and inequality
Fair sharing of global opportunities
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Karen A. Mingst
Global
common
issues or risks
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Global
governance
creation
Global society？
Is it the same as
International
society？
Vague
concepts
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Is There a “Global Society”?
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Governance Transition
Governance
that is global
Where are we now？
Governance in
the global
Do we have the
constitution of global
civil society？
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The fact is…..
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Cultural differences continue to
matter.
Incompatible between globalized
cultural standards and local
standards  “decoupling”: you talk
the talk, but you do not walk the
walk.
Hybrid cultures (‘Glocalized’ cultures)
are the likely result.
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The linkage of regime and governance
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Institutional
linkages
regim
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Global
governance
Institutional
linkages
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Regimes network
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To be continue ……
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