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Readings from Lechner and from Steger
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Reaction Research Date Topic Preparation Paper Paper Module 1: Globalization - The new world order Intro to the 8/24 course Complete Ice Breaker & Explore the Blackboard site What is Watch: The World is Flat http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266 8/26 Globalization? Read: Excerpted from THE WORLD IS FLAT: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/flat.jsp Read: Steger Ch 1 Dimensions of 8/31 Globalization Watch: Giddens “Gloablisation” http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/video/events99/reith_lectures/globevi.ram Topic Dimensions of Read: Lechner Ch1 9/2 Globalization selection Read: The Globalization of Food & Plants http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/food.jsp for paper A Short, Short Read: Steger Ch 2 9/7 History of 1 Globalization Read: Lechner Ch 2 Read: Lechner Ch10 Read: “Coming Together: Globalization means reconnecting the human community” We are all 9/9 interconnected http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/essay.jsp Read: “Interconnected we prosper” http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=11008 Watch: T-Shirt Travels http://www.hulu.com/Watch: /69783/global-voices-t-shirt-travels Complete Quiz #1 Online between 2 PM 9/9 and 2PM 9/11
Module 2: Global Ideologies & Globalized Economy
Read: Steger Ch 6 Ideologies of 9/14 Globalization, Read: “Increased global trade has actually been good for the poor in rich countries” http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/Sonderthemen;art893,2613355 Rationalization, Explore: McDonaldization http://www.mcdonaldization.com/whatisit.shtml Subtopic 9/16 and Read: Rationalization & McDonaldization http://www.pineforge.com/upm- selection McDonaldization data/16567_Chapter_2.pdf for paper Read: Sills “Philippine Labor Migration to Taiwan: Social, Political, Demographic, and Economic Dimensions.”[blackboard] Global Labor - 9/21 Global Supply Read: “Lured Into Bondage” http://www.newsweek.com/id/131707 Watch: 30-Days Outsourcing http://www.hulu.com/Watch: /56907/30-days-outsourcing Explore: Small Screen, Smaller World http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=204 Read: Steger Ch 3 Read: Weidenbaum “Globalization: Wonder Land or Wasteland?” Economic 9/21 Globalization http://www.springerlink.com/content/lqx6avl31x94mykw/fulltext.pdf Watch: The Story of Stuff http://web.1.c3.audiovideoweb.com/1c3web3536/annie_integration_36.swf Read: Lechner Ch 5 Bring down the Read: “It Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game” http://www.newsweek.com/id/156251/output/print 9/28 walls - Neoliberalism Watch: Global Economics - Global Exchange: Free Trade & Protection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJZWfqWcs0 The true cost of Watch: The Corporation http://www.hulu.com/watch/118169/the-corporation?c=News-and- 9/30 consumerism Information/Documentary-and-Biography Read: Lechner Ch 11 World Systems Bibliograp 10/5 Theory Read: The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy (Immanuel Wallerstein) 2 hy [Blackboard] Read: Parenti “Imperialism 101” http://www.michaelparenti.org/Imperialism101.html Read: Howe “American Empire: The History and Future of an Idea” 10/7 NeoImperialism http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2003/0612idea.htm Watch: Newman “History of Oil” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=- 5267640865741878159 Complete Quiz #2 Online between 2 PM 10/7 and 2 PM 10/9
Module 3: Global Governance & Political Globalization
10/12 No Class Fall Break Who’s in charge? Read: Lechner Ch 7 10/14 Global Civil Society Watch: “Civil Society in Global Governance” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFD0lxt7jE Read: “World Government” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/world-government/ Who’s in charge? Watch: “The global power elite” Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbXzhUB9miM & Thesis 10/19 The Superclass Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcHn1omvUgQ Statement Read: “What Power Looks Like” http://www.newsweek.com/id/130637 Read: Steger Ch4 Are countries Read: “World Society and the Nation-State” (John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and 10/21 doomed? Francisco O. Ramirez) Read: “The End of the Nation State” (Kenichi Ohmae) [Blackboard] Read: Realism and Complex Interdependence (Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye) [Blackboard] Neo-Liberalism A Read: Globalization’s Achilles’ Heel http://www.newsweek.com/id/145864/output/print 10/26 complex system 3 Watch: “We All Have to Think Multilateral“ http://streaming.yale.edu:8080/ramgen/cmibroadcast/Globalization/chanda_burns_041509.rm Explore: World Polity Theory http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/theories02.html Read: Kofi Annan "No Country, No Matter How Powerful…Can Control the Forces of Globalization on Its Own" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article5586585.ece 10/28 World Polity Read: "In Search of Common Sense" http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=9809 Read: "Runaway Globalization Without Governance" http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/pdfs/runawayGlobalization.pdf Complete Quiz #3 Online between 2 PM 10/28 and 2 PM 10/30
Module 4: Globalized Culture & the Rise of the Rest
Read: Steger Ch 5 Cultural 11/2 Imperialism Watch: "Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy" http://video.google.com/videoplay? docid=6573660441809242121 Read: Lechner Ch 4 Watch: “Globalisation and the Media” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HRt1bH_dw 11/4 Global Media Watch: “OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism” http://video.google.com/videoplay? docid=1315719834301238577&ei=Gyg5SoPtJIqCqQL6qoiSAw&q=outfoxed&hl=en&dur=3 Read: Maisami “Islam and Globalization” http://www.fountainmagazine.com/article.php? ARTICLEID=33 Read: Jihad vs. McWorld (Benjamin Barber) [Blackboard] When Cultures Rough 11/9 Clash Read: Al-Qaida at 20 http://www.slate.com/id/2196904/ Draft Due Explore: “The Changing Face of Iran” Photoessay: http://www.newsweek.com/id/199011 Read: Zakaria “They May Not Want The Bomb. And other unexpected truths.” http://www.newsweek.com/id/199147 Read: Lechner Ch 9 Read: “Does globalization diminish cultural diversity? “http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/issues05.html Read: Fowler “Converting the Masses: Starbucks in China” Case studies: The http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/2003/0710starbucks.htm Westernization 11/11 of China and Read: Young and Restless in China 4 India http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/youngchina/view/main.html Watch: “Jesus in China” http://www.pbs.org/video/video/1092332047/subject/957383727/topic/957390620# Read: Doshi "Reversing Flows: Pop Culture, East to West" http://www.sameerdoshi.com/AsianPopcult.htm Complete Quiz #4 Online between 2 PM 11/11 and 2 PM 11/13
Module 5: The Future of Globalization
Read: Steger Ch 7 The Future of Read: Steger Ch 8 Globalization & Peterson Wunder and Mueller Epilogue Reimagining the Future [Blackboard] 11/16 The Rise of the Watch: "The Future of Globalization" Prof. Jeffrey Sachs http://academicearth.org/lectures/the- Rest future-of-globalization Watch: The Post-American World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiUJ2hfEp78 11/18 Saving the Planet Read: Lechner Ch 12 5 11/23 Alter- Read: Lechner Ch 13 Globalization and other Social Read: The Port Huron Statement: An Agenda For A Generation Movements http://www.tomhayden.com/porthuron.htm Read: Meyer “How Social Movements Matter” http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink? did=546092131&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=15109&RQT=309&VName=PQD Read: Global Call for Action http://www.globalcalltoaction.org/ Read: A Better World is Possible: International Forum on Globalization. [Blackboard] Watch: “The Global Environment with Jeffrey Sachs” http://fora.tv/2008/04/22/The_Global_Environment_with_Jeffrey_Sachs Complete Quiz #5 Online between 2 PM 11/23 and 2 PM 11/25 11/30 Research Presentations In Class 12/2 Research Presentations In Class Research Paper Due 12/7 Upload to Blackboard by 5:00pm