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- It is important to remember that it is not only the economy of one country but
also other economies in the world that have a significant impact on the global
market and finance
We’ll be talking about financial institutions and economic organizations that made
countries even closer in terms of trade.
- After the two world wars, world leaders sought to create a global economic
system that would ensure a longer-lasting global peace.
- Inaugurated in 1944. It is a set of unified rules and policies that provided the
framework necessary to create fixed international currency exchange rates.
- Influenced by John Maynard Keynes- believed that economic crises occur not
when a country does not have enough money, but when money is not being
spent and, thereby, not moving.
- When the economies slow down, the government should reinvigorate markets
with infusions of capital
- Stemmed from the Bretton Woods System, with the role to oversee the
exchange rates
3. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- 1947- Shortly after Bretton Woods, other countries made their own economic
integration through GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE in
1947
- The main purpose was to reduce tariffs and other hindrances to free trade
- The time when people learned to domesticate plants and animals, and
realized that it was much more productive than the hunter-gatherer society
Effects:
- Farming led to permanent settlements
- trade network and population growth
- The 1800s-the rise of new economic tools like the steam engine,
manufacturing, and mass production
Effects:
- People began to work as wage laborers
- began to be more specialized in their skills
- Productivity went up
- Standards of living rose up
Two economic models that sprung around the time of the industrial revolution:
Capitalism VS Socialism
Capitalism
- system in which all natural resources and means of production are privately
owned
Socialism
- The age where scientific and technological advances have reduced the
role of human labor
Effects
- digitalization and computers have replaced people because of automation
- Outsourcing jobs offshore
- Decline in union membership
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Global Corporations
- Companies that extend beyond the border of one country are called
multinational or transnational corporations (MNCs or TNCs)
- Also called global corporations
GLOBAL INTERSTATE
STATE- set of political community with its own set of rules and practices that
is more or less separated from other communities
3. Government- the body that regulates relations among people and other
states
Nation- refers to the people and culture rather than any kind of formal territorial
boundaries or instructions
Example:
- Think about the Philippines based on its government, territory, and internal
and external sovereignty.
- How is the trade between the Philippines and this particular country? How is
the country upholding its sovereignty in relation to territorial issues e.g. China
and Philippines’ dispute over the West Philippine sea?
The Philippines as a Nation
Government- a group of people who have the ultimate authority to act on behalf of a
state
- Each state has its own right to self-determination and that other country
should not intervene in the affairs of the state unless there are extraordinary
reasons
A. Tradtional Challenges
1. External Intervention
Example:
Example:
- Nations have a cultural identity that people attach to, while a state is a definite
entity due to its specific boundaries
- Example: The ethnic group Sama-Bajau (Badjao, sea nomads, sea gypsies),
can be found not just in the Philippines but also in Malaysia, Indonesia, and
Brunei
- Great Britain (GB) and Scotland- GB had a vote in Scotland to decide whether
it was going to be an autonomous state and not be a part of GB
- GB voted against it, and Scotland is still part of GB, but it now has significant
degree of authority compared before
Neoliberal capitalism
- The laws and standards of a certain country may interfere with the capital
flow. Environmental regulations would discourage economc growth.
- Neoliberal capitalism requires a state to cooperate with its rules of free trade,
diminishing the government’s role
- Most of the time, they are not seen as a threat but as a challenge to the state
sovereignty still
- States have less control over them because they occur across countries,
across borders
Example:
Human rights movement, in the case of the death penalty. If a certain state or
country has rules about the death penalty (for example, Country A allows the death
penalty), but violates an international standard, then there is a challenge for their
state to fully implement it
Let’s revisit the idea that Globalism is an ideology based on the belief that people,
goods, and information ought to be able to cross national borders without
restrictions.
Global Politics entails the relationship between countries and different government
and non-government organizations. Here are a list of organizations, and their roles in
maintaining peace, and economic growth.
- October 24, 1945- its first operations began, with 50 representative countries.
Now, it's close to 200.
- Maintaining Peace and Security became their central mission after the war
a. Military Issues
b. Economic Issues
c. Environmental Issues
d. Human Protection
The General Assembly- the main deliberative body that provides a forum for member
states to express their views and reach an agreement
Other Programs under the UN:
- Help children around the world by distributing emergency relief from famine,
poverty, and disease
- Countries agreed to combine their military resources and tell the rest of the
world that if a country messed with one of its members, the other countries
will come to their defense.
3. NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Examples:
Oxfam
Amnesty International
- Good in nature but without criticism: Some people say that it is more about
helping large companies and corporations than it was helping people
2. NAFTA
- An economic treaty between the US, Canada, and Mexico, in which the three
countries trade freely without taxing each other
Globalization was used as bases to make changes in society, but it also benefits
decision-makers (government) of each country that are hoping for changes.