THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

MODULE 3 & 4
Name: AJ Grean T. Escobido Score _________
Subject and Section: CONTEMPORARY 9:00-10:00 am Date May 5, 2021
Research: Globalism vs. Internationalism

Use the Internet to compare and contrast globalism and internationalism.

Internationalism is political,
economic and cultural cooperation
between nations. INTERNATIONALISM
and GLOBALISM are
INTERNATIONALISM similar in itshas
goaltotodo Globalism is an
more with politics
become borderlessthan in ideology based on
anything else.
bothA POLITICS
good example and the belief that
of this would be the UNITED NATIONS.
TRADE. people, goods and
information ought
to be able to cross
national borders
unfettered.
Name: AJ Grean T. Escobido Score _________
Subject and Section: CONTEMPORARY 9:00-10:00 am Date May 5, 2021
Activity: Issue/Challenge in Global Governance: A SWOT Analysis
A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique used to help a person or organization identify
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to business competition or project planning.
Strengths and weakness are frequently internally-related, while opportunities and threats commonly focus
on the external environment. The name is an acronym for the four parameters the technique examines:
Strengths: characteristics of the business or project that give it an advantage over others.
Weaknesses: characteristics of the business that place the business or project at a disadvantage relative to
others.
Opportunities: elements in the environment that the business or project could exploit to its advantage.
Threats: elements in the environment that could cause trouble for the business or project. (Wikipedia
“SWOT Analysis,” 2019)

Choose one issue/challenge in global governance from the following: rogue state, ethnic
conflict, infectious disease, terrorism, climate change, food and water scarcity, international
migration, human trafficking, drug trafficking, piracy and proliferation of Weapons of Mass
Destruction and then use the SWOT analysis template below.
Identified Issue/Challenge in Global Governance: _______________________________________

STRENGTHS
Governance does matter in outbreaks and
epidemics control. As noted by
Southwood Smith nearly 200 years ago,
“Epidemics are under our own control; we
may promote their spread; we may prevent
it; we may secure ourselves for them.”
With the advantage of modern medicine,
optimists have anticipated that we will
need to face the threat of infectious
diseases not far in the future.
Building an optimal global health
governance system is not easy task.
Whenever and wherever an outbreak
occurs, the aim is to detect it as soon as
possible and to get it under control so that
we can ultimately save lives of people at
risk. From a public health perspective, the
basic principles behind a great variety of
preventive and control measures are fairly
WEAKNESSES
(WHO,
2003)
Epidemics are rampant throughout human history and they
have generated some of the most catastrophic events. Black
Death eliminated a third of the European population during
the 14th century and the 1918 flu killed nearly a hundred
million people. Infectious diseases have devastating
impacts, more serious and powerful than other human
disasters such as wars.
As documented, the 1918 flu pandemic killed more
Americans in a single year than the total amount of death in
World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the
Vietnam War. 1Being contagious illnesses, these diseases
have posed a considerable threat to human survival and
caused massive social anxiety. Under certain circumstances
with unmanaged disease transmission and public panic, fear
straightforward: prepare, detect and grows as fast as the disease itself will cause abrupt and
respond. However In practice, infectious serious social disturbance.
disease outbreaks are more of a social
Current global health governance literature suffers in
problem rather than pure public health
description and analytical capacity of global infectious
concerns due to its complex relationship
disease epidemics policy, presenting an unmanaged
with of ethics, politics and economic
governance structure with roles of players, in particular
interests.
nation states and World Health Organization (WHO),
Global governance of infectious disease mixed and not clearly defined.
transmission is being shaped by two broad
sets of trends, one characterized by the
evolution of microbial agents and the
changing nature of disease transmission in
a globalized world, the other by the
gradually reshaped perception of
epidemics and the concept of global public
governance in the current international
arena.
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Security has been an idea framed to The threat posed by infectious diseases is prevailing,
“justify bilateral and multilateral action” accompanied with the high speed and volume of
as a primary objective to protect national international trade and travel.
interests and predominance.
As people began to travel and trade, the Microorganisms
Employing such a security framework, not and infectious diseases they harbored traveled with them.
only forces us into the rationale actor Transoceanic air travel allows microorganisms to move
model dilemma discussed above since from country to country and provides them with a
security is the primary interest of propitious environment to incubate and spread. Time for
sovereign states, but also exposes us to traveling from coast to coast is even less than the incubation
higher risks of an over--‐politicized global period for many infectious diseases. As a consequence of
health arena. cut in distance, the world today is more interconnected by
means of transportation and faster communication. The
Shared health governance scheme is based globalization of the world’s political economy and
on a set of shared moral values among infectious disease are accelerating inseparably.
different actors in the global health arena
and a social contract for collective
decision making processes. It emphasizes
the importance of establishing a set of
shared public moral norms and believes
that the internalization of these shared
values will encourage members to comply
with their moral commitments based on
either voluntary actions or functional
requirements. The scheme has three
principal components: shared values and
beliefs, responsibility allocation after
internalizing the shared norms, a “global
 health constitution” reinforcing the
allocated responsibilities.

The shared health governance scheme is

beneficial in various ways of providing
governance implications on global
epidemics and developing more coherent
and practical political theories for
international and national actors to fulfill
their roles in global infectious disease
epidemics control.

Rubric
3 - Full Accomplishment - Students identified an issue/challenge in global governance and
applied the SWOT analysis in a clear and consistent manner.
2 - Substantial Accomplishment - Students identified an issue/challenge in global governance
and applied the SWOT analysis and do so in a somewhat consistent manner.
1 - Little or Partial Accomplishment - Students have difficulty identifying an issue/challenge in
global governance and applied the SWOT analysis consistently.
Name: AJ Grean T. Escobido Score _________
Subject and Section: CONTEMPORARY 9:00-10:00 am Date May 7, 2021
Essay: “Global Stratification & Poverty” Video Evaluation Chart
Watch Crash Course Sociology #27: Global Stratification & Poverty hosted by Nicole Sweeney
during your free time. Use this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rts_PWIVTU and then
read the instructions below carefully and answer the following questions cogently.
I. Reaction (Check the blank below)
__/__Very Favorable
____ Favorable
____Unfavorable
____Uncertain
II. Your response to the video in six words:
Global Stratification and poverty is engaging.
III. In just six words, explain the purpose/theme/aim of the video as you see it.
Global poverty links to categorizing countries.
IV. Make a summary of the video in ten words.
High, lower middle and low income countries categorize the countries.
V. In ten words, what are the values you learned from this video?
The values that I learned are connect and be rational.
Rubric
3 - Full Participation - Students wrote their reflection essays about the video in a clear and
consistent manner.
2 - Substantial Participation - Students wrote their reflection essays about the video and do so in
a somewhat consistent manner.
1 - Little or Partial Participation - Students have difficulty writing their reflection essays about
the video consistently.
Name: AJ Grean T. Escobido Score _________
Subject and Section: CONTEMPORARY 9:00-10:00 am Date May 8, 2021
Essay: “Theories of Global Stratification” Video Evaluation Chart
Watch Crash Course Sociology #28: Theories of Global Stratification hosted by Nicole Sweeney
during your free time. Use this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b350ljkYWrU and then
read the instructions below carefully and answer the following questions cogently.
I. Reaction (Check the blank below)
__/__Very Favorable
____ Favorable
____Unfavorable
____Uncertain
II. Your response to the video in six words:
It is understandable about Global stratification.
III. In just six words, explain the purpose/theme/aim of the video as you see it.
Points about theories of global stratification.
IV. Make a summary of the video in ten words.
Modernization Theory and Rostow’s Four Stages of Modernization: The theories.
V. In ten words, what are the values you learned from this video?
Be willing to explore more to have developments in countries.
Rubric
3 - Full Participation - Students wrote their reflection essays about the video in a clear and
consistent manner.
2 - Substantial Participation - Students wrote their reflection essays about the video and do so in
a somewhat consistent manner.
1 - Little or Partial Participation - Students have difficulty writing their reflection essays about
the video consistently.
Name: AJ Grean T. Escobido Score _________
Subject and Section: CONTEMPORARY 9:00-10:00 am Date May 10, 2021
Quiz: Essay
Answer each question in exactly 140 words:
(1) In what ways did the global north-south divide?
(2) What way or method do you recommend to resolve the gap/divide between the Global North
and the Global South?

1. The North-South Divide is the socio-economic and political division that exists between the
wealthy developed countries, known collectively as “the North”, and the poorer developing
countries (least developed countries), or “the South.
The North–South divide is considered a socio-economic and political divide. The South is
made up of Latin America, African Countries and developing Asia. The North is home to four
(USA, France, Russian, and UK) of the five (People’s Republic of China) permanent members
of the United Nations Security Council and all members of the G8.
The categorizing countries by their economic and developmental status began during the
Cold War with classifications of East and West. The cause of the gap is the colonization of the
Southern world regions by Europe over the past several centuries. This colonization occurred at
different times in different parts of the world.

2. The North-South problem is a most urgent and basic problem for international peace and
stability. There’s also a factor about the oil crisis that rise to heightened awareness of the
economic interdependence of all nations, developed and developing.
It was under these circumstances that the Fourth U.N. Conference on Trade and
Development was held in Nairobi in May 1976 to hold wide-ranging discussions on and to forge
policies of international cooperation for the many facets of the North-South problem, including
primary products, trade, aid, industrialization, and technology transfer.
Integrated Commodity Programme was introduced for the stabilization and real growth of
commodity export earnings, with special stress being laid upon the "common fund" (a central
fund to finance international buffer stocks and the like within the framework of separate
commodity agreements) which is central to the Programme. The Programme was adopted.
Name: AJ Grean T. Escobido Score _________
Subject and Section: CONTEMPORARY 9:00-10:00 am Date May 10, 2021
Activity: ASIAN COUNTRIES WORD SEARCH

R A M A L D I V E S V A T A
E N E P A L C A M B O D I A
R N A T S I K A P I W D N M
P A N O N A B E L T N H D Y
O N S M P T O O D I I U R A
N A O N E E R O P A G N I S
A J A B N E M E Y N A A L O
M B L D R D N A L I A H T T
O A D R N U O U N M A I A I
R A T A Q D N H I I N A M A
E B H U T A N E A R V N R W
I J O R D A N O I D A O U U
N I N A M A N T E I V N B K
N O A K I N D O N E S I A A

YEMEN INDONESIA OMAN LEBANON BURMA BHUTAN PAKISTAN

CAMBODIA LAOS INDIA VIETNAM NEPAL THAILAND
QATAR IRAN MALDIVES BRUNEI SINGAPORE
KUWAIT JORDAN
Name: AJ Grean T. Escobido Score _________
Subject and Section: CONTEMPORARY 9:00-10:00 am Date May 12, 2021
Quiz: Political Cartoon

Direction: Explain the theme of this political cartoon in exactly 140 words.

Media, political pressure, truth centralized the theme of the picture. The media is a dummy who is likely
in pressured by the political powers held by those who seek to cover the truth and manipulate it to make
the people oblivious of what is really going on. There is abuse and a unfair bordering of truth which is an
ill treatment for the people that seeks genuine truth from those leaders. A world without political
leadership wouldn’t have much structure to it; there would be no laws or guidelines through everyday life.
Clearly, we need some type of control – we need someone to have power over us if we want to achieve
anything politically. As long as leaders or politicians have power there will continue to be a downward
sloping relay of information to the less powerful in our society.