Globalization Economic

HON351, American Ideals in Global Perspective

Fall Semester 2008

Study Guide

Economic Globalization

Reading Assignment:

Steger, ch. 3

Amy Stewart, "Flower Power," Foreign Policy, No. 161, July/August 2007, pp. 44-52 (electronic reserves)

Websites: (optional)

Questions to consider while reading Steger (chapter 3)

1. How does Steger define economic globalization?

2. What role did the Bretton Woods system play in the evolution of a global economic order?

3. What roles have the internationalization of trade and finance as well as transnational corporations played in the modern global economy?

4. How has the global South fared in the new global economic order?

5. What are the message from the case studies on the Southeast Asia crisis, Nokia and the Finnish economy, and neoliberal economics and Argentina?

Questions to consider while reading the Stewart article:

1. In what ways have flower markets gone global?

2. What factors must be taken into account by frowers who want to access international flower markets?

3. How has gloalization affected the types of flowers available to consumers?

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