1 Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets

2 Globalization is inevitable and irreversible

Globalization furthers the spread
3 Nobody is in charge of globalization 5 of democracy in the world

Globalization requires a
4 Globalization benefits everyone 6 global war on terror
 GLOBALIZATION IS ABOUT THE
LIBERALIZATION AND GLOBAL
1 INTEGRATION OF MARKETS

The driving force today are markets, which

are suborning the role of government

One role of government is to get out

Liberalization of the way—to remove barriers to the free Integration of market
flow of goods, services, and capital

The driving idea behind GLOBALIZATION

is free-market capitalism.
 Globalization is

2 inevitable and irreversible

Globalization is adjacent to historical inevitability.
We have to adapt to the discipline of the market to
survive and prosper.
Villar (n.d) ‘We cannot simply wish away the process of globalization. It is a
reality of a modern world. The process is irreversible”

GLOBALIZATION Gravity and weather

It does not matter whether you like it or not, it’s

happening, it’s going to happen’.
 Nobody is in charge
3 of globalization

We are all increasingy connected but

no one is in charge
Friedman ‘the most basic truth about globalization is this: NO
ONE IS IN CHARGE
We all want to believe that someone is in charge and responsible.”
You and I can increasingly work on the world stage
directly, unmediated by a state

There is a transcendental force that decides

what happens in the world.
 globalization

4 benefits everyone
Globalization is intrinsically good

Globalization have led to a considerable

expansion of wealth and prosperity in the world

There is a possibility of unequal global

distribution patterns but these irregularities will
eventually correct itself
 globalization furthers the

spread of democracy
5 in the world

Freedom
Democracy Free trade
Free market

Economic Powerful
Globalization middle class democracy
development

The claim that globalization furthers the spread of

democracy in the world is thus largely based on a narrow, formal-
procedural understanding of ‘democracy’.
 globalization requires a

6 global war on terror

It combines the idea of economic globalization with
openly militaristic and nationalistic ideas associated with the
American-led global War on Terror.

Global war on long-term

9/11 attack Global security military
terror
commitment

spread of globalization requires a

War on Terror