GLOBAL DIVIDES:

THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH

CHED TRAINING OF TRAINERS:
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD / ANG KASALUKUYANG DAIGDIG

GRACE C. MAGALZO-BUALAT
UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS
QUIZ PART I. Q & A
1. GLOBAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS IS WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF EVERYDAY LIFE. True
2. THE ECONOMIC NORMS THE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES APPLIES TO ITSELF ARE
NEVER THE SAME AS THOSE IT IMPOSES ON THE DEVELOPING WORLD. THIS MAKES
GLOBALIZATION AN EVEN PROCESS. False

3. GLOBALIZATION CREATES BOTH AFFLUENCE AND POVERTY. True

4. AS GLOBAL PROBLEMS INTENSIFY, IT BECOMES MORE AND MORE NECESSARY FOR
PEOPLE IN THE NORTH TO SUPPORT ALTERNATIVES FROM THE SOUTH. True
5. DRAWING LINES BETWEEN THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND THE GLOBAL NORTH, THE
DEVELOPED AND THE DEVELOPING, THE FIRST AND THE THIRD WORLD, HAS NO
POWERFUL POLITICAL FUNCTION. False
 QUIZ PART II. IDENTIFICATION
6. THE PROCESS OF RAPID EXPANSION AND INTENSIFICATION OF SOCIAL
RELATIONS ACROSS-TIME AND WORLD-SPACE. Globalization
7. A METAPHOR FOR INTERSTATE INEQUALITY, FLUID AND EVOLVING. Global South
8. ACCORDING TO ROSTOW, THIS OUTLINES HISTORICAL PROGRESS IN TERMS
Modernization
OF SOCIETY’S CAPACITY TO PRODUCE AND CONSUME MATERIAL GOODS. Theory
9. ACCORDING TO HUNTINGTON, THIS IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF CONFLICT IN
THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD, REHASHES MANY OF COLONIAL
STEREOTYPES ASSOCIATED WITH SO-CALLED BACKWARD CIVILIZATIONS. Clash of
Civilizations
10.THIS THEORY, ESPOUSED BY FUKUYAMA, TALKS ABOUT THE COMPLETE
TRIUMPH OF WESTERN CAPITALISM AND LIBERALISM TURNING THE WEST End of
INTO THE TELOS OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, WHICH ALL MUST ASPIRE TO. History
 GLOBAL DIVIDES:
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH

CHED TRAINING OF TRAINERS:

THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD / ANG KASALUKUYANG DAIGDIG

GRACE C. MAGALZO-BUALAT
UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS
 INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
•TO DEFINE THE TERM “GLOBAL SOUTH;
•TO DIFFERENTIATE THE GLOBAL SOUTH
FROM THE THIRD WORLD; AND
•TO ANALYZE DIFFERENT CONCEPTIONS /
LENSES OF GLOBAL RELATIONS.
I. DEFINITION: GLOBAL SOUTH

Socio-
economic
Africa and political
divide

Refers to
Latin
developing America
countries

Developing Located
Asia
including
primarily in
Middle the southern
East
hemisphere WORLD MAP SHOWING THE MODERN DEFINITION OF THE NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE
II. THE GLOBAL NORTH VS. THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Global North Global South
Home to all the members of the G8 &
to four of the five permanent
members of the UN Security Council Africa, Latin America
USA, Canada,
Western Europe

Developing Asia including Middle

Developed parts of Asia, Australia East
and New Zealand
III. CONCEPTIONS OF GLOBAL RELATIONS
• MAJOR PREMISE: THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF
CERTAIN STATES/PEOPLES AND THEIR LACK OF
REPRESENTATION IN GLOBAL POLITICAL PROCESS IS A
REALITY
• PREVALENT: IMBALANCES OF AGGREGATE ECONOMIC
AND POLITICAL POWER BETWEEN STATES
• INTERSTATE DIMENSION
• THE STARBUCKS AND THE SHANTY:
• SPACES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
MAY MIRROR THE POVERTY OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH, AND
SPACES OF AFFLUENCE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD MIRROR
THOSE OF THE GLOBAL NORTH
• “THE GLOBAL SOUTH IS EVERYWHERE, BUT IT IS ALSO
SOMEWHERE, AND THAT SOMEWHERE, LOCATED AT THE
INTERSECTION OF ENTANGLED POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF
DISPOSSESSION AND REPOSSESSION
MAJOR LENSES: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

REALISM LIBERALISM/CONSTRUCTIVISM

North vs. South

MARXISM POST MODERNISM

• GLOBALISM (STEGER): GLOBAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IS NOT
ONLY INEVITABLE GIVEN THE RISE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES; IT IS,
MORE IMPORTANTLY, A NORMATIVE INTERNATIONAL GOAL. TO
NOT PARTAKE TO GLOBALITY IS BACKWARDS
• CIVILIZATION DISCOURSE: DOMINANT IDEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM
AND THE LOGIC THAT SHAPED THE BIRTH OF THE INTERNATIONAL
ORDER
• MODERNIZATION THEORY (ROSTOW): OUTLINED HISTORICAL
PROGRESS IN TERMS OF A SOCIETY’S CAPACITY TO PRODUCE
AND CONSUME MATERIAL GOODS
• CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS (HUNTINGTON): A CLASH OF CIVILIZATION IS
THE MAIN SOURCE OF CONFLICT IN THE POST-COLD WAR WORLD
• END OF HISTORY (FUKUYAMA): THE COMPLETE TRIUMPH OF WESTERN
CAPITALISM AND LIBERALISM TURNS THE WEST INTO THE TELOS OF
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, WHICH ALL MUST ASPIRE TO
• THE LEXUS (FRIEDMAN): GLOBAL PROGRESS IN TERMS OF A BINARY
BETWEEN EMBRACING FREE TRADE AND BEING LEFT BEHIND BY THE
PACE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENTS. THE ALTERNATIVE TO LEXUS IS STAGNATION, MAKING
INJUNCTION TO GLOBALIZE AN IMPERATIVE IN THE QUEST FOR GLOBAL
MODERNITY
• CHALLENGING THE GLOBAL ORDER:
• LENIN: CAPITALISM’S STRENGTH IS PREMISED ON THE
CREATION OF NEW MARKETS VIA IMPERIALISM
• SUKARNO: COLONIALISM HAS ALSO ITS MODERN DRESS, IN
THE FORM OF ECONOMIC CONTROL, INTELLECTUAL CONTROL,
ACTUAL PHYSICAL CONTROL BY A SMALL BUT ALIEN
COMMUNITY WITHIN A NATION. IT IS A SKILLFUL AND
DETERMINED ENEMY, IT APPEARS IN MANY GUISES
• THIRD WORLDISM: BEGAN AS COMMON RESISTANCE TO NEW
FORMS OF COLONIALISM
CONCLUSION
• THE SOUTH CONTINUES TO BE GLOBALIZED
• THE GLOBAL SOUTH HAS PROVIDED MODELS OF RESISTANCE FOR THE
WORLD
• AS GLOBAL PROBLEMS INTENSIFY, IT BECOMES MORE AND MORE
NECESSARY FOR PEOPLE IN THE NORTH TO SUPPORT ALTERNATIVES
FROM THE SOUTH
• EMPHASIS ON THE STATE AND INTERSTATE POLITICS REMAINS
POLITICALLY AND ANALYTICALLY RELEVANT MOST ESPECIALLY IN
ADDRESSING GLOBAL INEQUALITIES
BREAK-OUT SESSION
•CRAFT A LEARNING
ACTIVITY THAT WOULD
ALLOW THE STUDENTS
TO TACKLE AND
ADDRESS THESE
QUESTIONS.
ASSESSMENT

• CONTENT
• RELEVANCE
• STUDENT CENTERED
• INNOVATIVENESS
REFERENCES
•REQUIRED READING:
•STEGER, MANFRED B., BATTERSY, PAUL, AND
SIRACUSA, JOSEPH (2014). THE SAGE
HANDBOOK OF GLOBALIZATION. THOUSAND
OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATION. PP. 187-199.
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