HL Extension: Unit 4: Power, places and networks

How wealthy and powerful places exist at varying scales, and how the global map is complex and subject to change

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

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

Air traffic

World shipping routes

Internet fiberoptic cables

More than half are owner by Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft

Migration

Financial Flows

Source

How else can we measure globalization?

Source - Reddit (to be taken lightly!)

Question: Can you name a product that embodies all of these globa interactions?

countries become interdependent
increasing what they buy and sell with each other
resulting in the flow of money (capital) between places
the sharing and take up of technology in those countries

How can we measure Globalization?

Globalization indices showing how countries participate in global interactions

KOF INdex

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 5 and bottom 5 countries in the NGI and KOF
Outline the main differences between KOF and the NGI

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]

Part 2: Superpowers

Global superpowers and their economic, geopolitical and cultural influence

Detailed examples of at least two actual or potential global superpowers

Questions:

Give two specific examples explaining the United State's global influence in terms of:

Politics
Military
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?

Geo 4.1 - SUperpowers

China's plan to overtake America as the Next Superpower

Activity:
In groups, you will complete a 4P analysis, describing the economic, geopolitical, military and cultural influence of the USA, Russia and China

Link your work here

Part 3: International Organisations

In groups, 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 a definition of the organizatiuon and its members
Describe their power to influence countries and regions of the world.
Give 2 examples, of different scale, of the organizarion asserting power on a named region

Powerful organizations and global groups:

G7/8, G20
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) influence over energy policies
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
New Development Bank (NDB)

Present your findings here