GLOBALIZATIONGLOBALIZATION
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GlobalizationGlobalization
What is it?What causes it?What are its effects?How is it similar to/distinct from
Americanization?
Globalization: Various Strands....Globalization: Various Strands.... economic integration
foreign investment trade macroeconomic policy labour market integration integrated production processes
political integration EU, NAFTA WTO, OECD, IMF NORAD, NATO, UN
cultural integration cultural homogenization
Globalization: CausesGlobalization: Causes technology interlinkages between strands
– economic integration creates incentives to create cultural integration
Coca-Colonization
– cultural integration creates demand for economic integration
political globalization as a “political project” expand the scope of markets
Globalization: EffectsGlobalization: EffectsRetribalization vs. McWorldpower of the state
– up, down and out
power of various groups in society polarization additional power resources for some marginalized
groups
Americanization and Americanization and Globalization...Globalization...distinctionsimilarities (from a Canadian perspective)
– Americanization is similar to globalization similar constraints on public policy/role of
government
– globalization is similar to Americanization globalized culture is heavily American “race to the bottom”
Americanization and Americanization and Globalization...Globalization...distinctionsimilarities (from a Canadian perspective)different implications
asymmetry of continental integration (overemphasizing globalization)
cultural paranoia (overemphasizing Americanization)
Americanization/Globalization Americanization/Globalization and the Canadian Political and the Canadian Political ContextContextCanada cannot make decisions as if it exists
in isolationeffects of globalization/Americanization
– direct effects– symbolic effects
these processes may have major effects simply because Canadian policy-makers and public believe they are having these effects
central elements of the political landscape
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