HL Extension: Unit 4: Power, places and networks
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How wealthy and powerful places exist at varying scales, and how the global map is complex and subject to change
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Prescribed reading
Prescribed reading
Week 1:
N&C p. 516-529
Richard Florida, The World is Spikey, The Atlantic Monthly, Oct 2005
How global power and influence varies spatially
How global power and influence varies spatially
Discuss:
What is globalization?
List different types of global interactions
What factors influence how a place is globalized?
How does global power and influence vary spatially?
How do different places become interconnected by global interactions?
How do politics, technology and physical processes influence global interactions?
What is the core periphery model?
How does globalization influence culture?
Key Terminology:
Cross-border flows
Flows of products, services, capital, information and people across political (country) borders.
Global connectedness
Refers to the depth and breadth of a country's integration with the rest of the world, as manifested by its participation in international flows of products and services, capital, information , and people.
Global interactions
A two-way and complex process whereby cultural traits and commodities may be adopted, adapted or resisted by societies. The process is neither inevitable nor universal.
Globalization index
The KOF Globalisation Index is one of several measures of globalization. It measures the economic, social and political dimensions of globalisation.
Transport
Transport
Air traffic
World shipping routes
Internet fiberoptic cables
Internet fiberoptic cables
More than half are owner by Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Migration
Migration
Financial Flows
Financial Flows
How else can we measure globalization?
How else can we measure globalization?
Source - Reddit (to be taken lughtly!)
How can we measure Globalization?
How can we measure Globalization?
Globalization indices showing how countries participate in global interactions
Globalization indices showing how countries participate in global interactions
Exercise:
In your table groups, read N&C p. 518-9 and online resources:
outline the main variables of the New Globalization Index
List the top 10 and bottom 10 countries in the NGI
Outline the main differences between KOF and the NGI
Exam type questions:
Exam type questions:
Using examples, explain how a country’s global interactions can be measured. [12]
"The world's countries are all losing their independence and identity because of global interactions" To what extent do you agree with this statement [16]
Global superpowers and their economic, geopolitical and cultural influence
Global superpowers and their economic, geopolitical and cultural influence
Detailed examples of at least two actual or potential global superpowers
Detailed examples of at least two actual or potential global superpowers
Questions:
What is the United State's global influence in terms of
Politics
Economics
culture
What are the benefits and drawbacks of these influences?
How did they become so powerful?
Who are the other superpowers? Can they be defined as such?
China's plan to overtake America as the Next Superpower
Homework: Read Handout and answer questions 1-7 (color graphs: YIS ONLY)
I groups of 3 or 4, you will research and present a brief explanation of the following global organizations, focusing on their power to influence countries and regions of the world. Give at least 2 detailed examples.
Powerful organizations and global groups:
G7/8, G20 and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) groups
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) influence over energy policies
global lending institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and New Development Bank (NDB)
Synthesis, evaluation and skills opportunities
Synthesis, evaluation and skills opportunities
How wealthy and powerful places exist at varying scales, and how the global map is complex and subject to change
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