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GLOBALIZATION The Contemporary World

 Learning Objectives
1. Provide a working definition of globalization;
2. Appreciate various global issues affecting the rest of the
world;
3. Differentiate the competing conceptions of globalization;
and
4. Narrate a personal experience of globalization

Source: Claudio, L. & P. Abinales (2018). The Contemporary World

WHAT’S IN THE NEWS?
1. U.S. Withdrawal from Transpacific Partnership
2. ASEAN Economic Community 2015
3. Trump’s immigration policy
4. British exit from EU
 TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
▪ Created in February 2016
▪ 12 countries originally signed up for TPP
i.e., Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile,
Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand,
Peru, Singapore, United States, Vietnam
▪ In January 2017, U.S. withdrew its
signature from the agreement
▪ In March 2018, the remaining 11 countries
signed a revised version of TPP called
Comprehensive and Progressive
Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

Source: Gaspar (2017). Global Business

 ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY 2015
1. In 1992, Free Trade Agreement was signed among the members of
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which pro
2. Currently, there are 10 official members of ASEAN, i.e., Malaysia,
Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia,
Myanmar, and Vietnam (N.B. Timor Leste’s application is still
pending).

Source: asean.org
 TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICY
1. Immigration has been one of the major centerpieces of Pres. Donald
Trump’s policies since election campaign.
2. Major actions on immigration during 2017:
a. Banning of nationals from entering the United States, e.g., Chad, Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Syria, and Yemen – mostly Muslim-dominated countries.
b. Reduced refugee admissions to the lowest level.
c. Reversed the decline in arrests of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.
d. Ended the designation of Temporary Protected Status for nationals of Haiti,
Nicaragua, and Sudan.

Source: Migration Policy Institute Policy Briefs – December 2017

 BREXIT
Brexit (British Exit from the European Union) refers to the planned
withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
In June 2016, a referendum was held to decide whether the UK should
leave or remain in the European Union. Leave won by 51.9% to 48.1%.
The referendum turnout was 71.8%, with more than 30 million voting.
On March 29, 2019, the UK is due to leave the European Union.

Source: BBC, January 2019

What is Globalization?
It is “the process by which people and goods move
easily across borders” (World Economic Forum 2017).

It is the process of “expansion and intensification of

social relations and consciousness across world-time
and across world-space” (Steger 2013).
What is Globalization?
It cuts across economic, political, social, cultural, and technological
boundaries among states.
✓The rise of business processing outsourcing industries (BPOs);
✓The emergence of non-governmental organizations and other multi-
national corporations;
✓Fast-paced changes in technological advancements;
✓Westernization of the East and vice-versa; and
✓among other transactions happening worldwide.
Multifaceted Globalization?
Arjun Appadurai, an anthropologist, noted that different kinds of
globalization occur on multiple and intersecting dimensions of
integration called “scapes”
▪Ethnoscape – global movement of people
▪Mediascape – flow of culture
▪Technoscape – circulation of technology
▪Financescape – circulation of money
▪Ideoscape – flow of political ideas