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Market Globalism: BY Manfred B. Steger
Market Globalism: BY Manfred B. Steger
BY
MANFRED B. STEGER
• Steger: “Globalization refers to the expansion and
intensification of social relations and consciousness across
world-time and world-space”.
• Steger’s definition of globalization must be differentiated
from “globalism”.
POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND THE GLOBAL IMAGINARY
• IDEOLOGY
• A system of widely shared ideas, patterned beliefs, guiding norms and values,
and ideals accepted as truth by some groups
• Serves as guide and compass for social and political action
• Structured based on “core” claims
• First coined by Antoine Destutt de Tracy in the late 18th century
PAUL RICOEUR (French philosopher, 1986)
• Robert Kaplan, “ You also have to have military and economic power
behind market globalism or else your ideas cannot spread.”
• Globalization is actually Americanization or McDonaldization
• USA must demonstrate herself as the most powerful military power
and foremost market-economy in the world capable of leading a
greater number of developing nations to a more prosperous and
stable future( Robert McFarlane & Michael Bleyzer)
THOMAS BERNETT
• Author of the book The Pentagon’s New Map (2004)
• Professor in US Naval War College
• Argues that the Iraq war marked US real ownership of strategic security
• Breaks the globe into 3 distinct regions :
• Functioning Core or Core (globalization thick like North America, Europe, Australia,
New Zealand and small part of Latin America)
• Seam states ( Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Turkey,
Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia)
• Non-integrating Gap or Gap (globalization is thinning or just plain absent plagued by
repressive political regimes, regulated markets, mass murder, widespread poverty
and disease like Caribbean Rim, Africa, Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East
and Southeast Asia)
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