Module 1: The Structures of Globalization

Lesson 1: What is Globalization?

ACTIVITY

GLOBALIZATION: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

Scenario Positive Negative Depends

Scenario A: In your local town, one of the main sources of employment for three generations
has been the fruit cannery. The company has recently decided to close the factory and outsource
the canning of fruit to another country where labor fruit are cheaper.
Scenario B: Your friend’s garage band has really taken off on YouTube and people from places
as distant as Finland and Ghana are downloading it.
Scenario C: You meet someone really nice while you’re on holiday in Bali and can now keep in
touch via Skype.
Scenario D: The shoes that you really like are much cheaper via an online shop in America.
Scenario E: The Australian Government is being pressured to decrease the current annual
minimum quota of 55% Australian television programming (between 6 am and midnight) to
40%.
Scenario F: The Company that your father works for has recently been taken over by a
transnational corporation with job opportunities in many parts of the world if he is prepared to
move/relocate. Scenario G: A representative from World Wildlife Fund invites students to
become involved in and advocate to help secure the future of orangutans.
Scenario H: Your mother’s superannuation fund has been affected by the Global Financial
Crisis and she is worried that she won’t have enough money when she retires.

ANALYSIS

Direction: Write the word True if the statement is correct and False if the statement is incorrect.
______1. World health Organization define Globalization, “the increased interconnectedness and
interdependence of people and countries.
______2. Thomas Friedman defined globalization as,” as the inexorable integration of markets,
transportation systems, and communication systems to a degree never witnessed before.”.
______3. Exchange information and goods in an easy way, this process is called “Globalization.
______4. Globalization is an event occurred in unprecedented pace and gives definition to the world’s
market.
______5. Globalization has contributed to global warming, climate change and the overuse of natural
resources.
______6. Some politicians argue that globalization is detrimental to the middle class, and is causing
increasing economic and political polarization to developed countries.
______7. United Nations defines Economic globalization as “increasing interdependence of world
economies as a result of the growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities and services, flow of
international capital and wide and rapid spread of technologies.
______8. In economic globalization, companies seek the greatest possibility of efficient and maximized
profits that will involve many regions and localities to “global production”.
______9. The rapid growing significance of information in all types of productive activities and
marketization are the two major driving forces for economic globalization”
______10. The United Nation, focused at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1994, is the official
organization for securing international monetary cooperation.

APPLICATION

Think and Explain

1. How have you experienced globalization?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
 ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

2. Why it is crucial to emphasize that globalization is uneven?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

3. What is the difference between globalization and globalism?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

Lesson 2

The Globalization of World Economics

ACTIVITY

Global Economic Institutions

Go to the web and accomplish these tasks:
a. research the origins and history of the institution you have chosen;
b. map the international connections it has created
c. identify the major country-leaders if this institution; and
d. locate the Philippines in this map of interconnections.

ANALYSIS

1. How does this institution influence global economic activity?

_____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

2. How does it affect economics in the Philippines?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

APPLICATION

Think and Explain

1. How do economic forces facilitate the deepening of globalization?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

2. How is the Philippines central to the history of economic globalization?

_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

3. . Compare and contrast the assumptions of the original Bretton Woods system with those
of the Washington Consensus.
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
 _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

Lesson 3
A History of Global Politics: Creating an International Order

ACTIVITY
Further research/read on Giuseppe Mazzini, Woodrow Wilson, Karl Marx, or Vladimir
Lenin.

ANALYSIS
Conduct an imaginary interview, have your selected figure answer the following questions:
1. What do you think of nationalism?
2. What is necessary for the development of an international order?
3. What do you think of the League of Nations?
4. What is the role of revolution in internationalism?
APPLICATION

Think and Explain

1. What are the qualities that makes you proud and unique as an individual?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

2. Cite your ideas in the quotation: “Everyone has something unique to offer and when
we unite in a common goal our actions are powerful”.
_____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
 Lesson 4
The United Nations and Contemporary Global Governance

ACTIVITY
The United Nations Peacekeepers: Re-enacting their Roles, Responsibilities, and
Challenges

Research in Google what the United Nations peacekeepers are, the countries that
send these peacekeepers, their responsibilities, and the places where they have been
involved in the last 50 years. After familiarizing yourselves with the UN’s peacekeeping
function, you will now be ready to deal with a crisis. Read the scenario below.
Countries A and B have been at war against each other for 50 years over a big area of
land that is located in their borders. The land consists of rainforests, suitable farmlands, and
rich mineral resources. It is also suspected to have oil reserves underground.
The community that lives in this area is composed of people who have never been
clear about their national loyalties, for the simple reason that they do not recognize these
borders. They have been living in the area long before countries A and B had national
territories. They, therefore, would like to be left alone, to “go back and forth” between
the two borders.
Countries A and B, however, want to exploit the resources of this borderland.
They started supporting leaders in this community, secretly at first, but later on with open
economic assistance. This association created tensions within the community that soon
worsened into open factional rivalries between its leaders.
The factional rivalry started over how assistance was to be shared, and then
moved to competition over elected positions. The rivalry took a turn for the worse when
Countries A and B began supplying their allies with arms and military training, especially
supplying their allies with arms and military training, especially after they both realized
the security problems this borderland can cause.
It did not take long before conflict between the two factions came out in the open.
This “mimi-war” spread and seriously affected the community, dividing families and
pitting friends and relatives against each other.
And then suddenly, the two countries were sending their armies into the border
supposedly to help keep the peace, but in reality, to fight alongside their local allies. The
war was intense, Thousands perished and were injured. But what was clear was that no
side was winning.
Eventually, exhausted by the war (Countries A and B began to realize how much
resources they wasted in this war), the protagonists agreed to a temporary truce. They
also asked the help of the United Nations in terms of bringing in a peacekeeping force to
stand between the two sides, and negotiate how to turn the truce into a lasting peace.
Your class is that peacekeeping force. List down the things you need to do to prepare
for this mission. Once you have established your presence, think of measures you have to
take to keep the peace, knowing that you will not be there permanently. Good luck.

ANALYSIS
 The student will come up with his own reflection.
“The Characteristics of a Good Leader”

APPLICATION
Think and Explain

1. Why is global governance multi-faceted?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

2. How do international organizations take on “lives of their-own?”

___________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
3. What are the challenges faced by the United Nations in maintaining global security?
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

Lesson 5
 A World of Regions

ACTIVITY

From Kingdoms to Empires, to Colonies, and to Republics

Organize yourselves based on these following broad regional divisions:

North America South America

China Japan
Korea South Asia
Middle East Southeast Asia
th
At the beginning of the 16 century, before the Europeans ruled the world, these
regions had their own empires and kingdoms. When the Spanish established the first global
empires and kingdoms. When the Spanish established the first global empire, some of these
kingdoms and empires disappeared or were weakened. This process was continued under the
British colonial rule, and other powers began to carve their own spheres of interests.
Europeans dominated and made colonies out of these areas.

After World War I, however, there began a noticeable shift, this time with colonies
challenging the colonial rule and demanding that they be allowed to become nations and
determine their own future. This pursuit was what US President Woodrow Wilson called “
the principle of self-determination” ( see the discussion this in the Lesson 3) reached a high
point when World War II destroyed the empires, and the colonies achieved their
independence.
Choose a regional division and trace how it has changed from the time before
European powers like Britain and Spain ruled the world, then during the era of colonialism,
until its independence.

List what kinds of changes happened to these areas (once participates, then
provinces, then republics) and the people who inhabit there. Finally, see how the nations and
republics that were born from the ashes of colonialism after World War II looked back on
the past era to explain their own histories.

POLITICAL CARTOONING

Direction: Draw a political cartoon of what regions would look like:

-Make it unique and eye catching
-Creativity and humor help
-Using familiar figures also helps dramatically
Present in Group Chat and Explain. Then, the class will vote for the best cartoon.

ANALYSIS
 Compare your region’s changes with other regions. Pinpoint the
similarities and differences.

APPLICATION
 Essay

1. How is regionalism different from and yet a part of globalization?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

2. What is the difference between state-to-state regionalism and non-state regionalism?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

3. What triggers various regionalist projects?

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________