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LECTURE WEEK OUTLINES FOR Transforming Todays Students into Tomorrows Global Citizens (The article is in Week 13 Folder) 1. Define global citizenship and explain the three main aspects of global citizenship. (p.6 & 18) 2. What is global competency and are US undergraduate students prepare to undertake the challenges of a globalized environment? (p.7) 3. What should be taught to students regarding global citizenship? (p.6 &8) 4. What some key methods that can be utilized in teaching globalization? (p.9-11)
READING GUIDE FOR Click to Read: Ethics Must Be global, Not Local 1. What is situation ethics? And what are the consequences of situation ethics in the context of businesses going global? (p.1) 2. What is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA)? (p.1) 3. What are some shortcomings despite that good ethics is good business? (p.2) LINK: Global Ethics: Beyond Local Leadership What the three methods for developing global ethics? What is a shortcoming of each method?
LINK: Inside the Knockoff-Tennis-Shoe Factory What does the term zhanshai implies regarding counterfeiting in China and what is its implications?
WEEK 3
The Four Ps of Globalization What are the four Ps?
Postwar Juncture Timeline What is a postwar juncture? And what are the three factors that allow the winning state to transform the international system? What are the two views on 9/11 as a postwar juncture? What are the two views on the 2008 financial crisis in the context of the end of history?
Conceptualizing Globalization Summarize the main features as espoused by the hyperglobalists. Summarize the main features as espoused by the skeptics. Summarize the main features as espoused by the transformationalists.
Concepts of the Political Economy Summarize the main features of the Liberalism. Summarize the main features of the Marxism. Summarize the main features of Mercantilism.
Interpretation of Winners and Losers Summarize NIE perspective. Summarize SPG perspective. Summarize the Outliers perspective. Summarize the Feminist Economics perspective.
Source:GlobalizationandglobalpoliticsbyAnthonyMcGrewand TeachingGlobalizationby Muqtedar Khan
WEEK 4
LECTURE OUTLINES FOR Assessing Globalization Click to Read Growth After the Crisis (See Figure 1 on p.34, Figure 4 on page 37, and Figure 5 on page 38). Who were the main growth champions from the 1950s to 2005 and what explain their growth? What has been shown to be correlated with high economic growth? What are the prospects for developing countries in the current financial slowdown?
READING GUIDE FOR Assessing Globalization State of the Worlds Cities by UNs Habitat (PDF in Week 4 Folder) 4. How are cities defined? And why is the 21 st century is the century of the city? (p.12-13) 5. What are the main trends in cities becoming more unequal in developing countries? And what are the consequences of urban inequality in developing countries? (p.15) 6. Why is important for cities to be well planned and managed in regard to environmental harmony? (p.16) PPT: The Competitive Advantage of Nations Why is increasing competitiveness essential to a countrys prosperity? (Slide 3) Explain the main the features of competitiveness. (Slide 5) What are the two determinants of competitiveness and what do they have to say about the rise of China as a superpower? (Slide 4 & 6)
LINK: Top 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing Cities 2009 are What the only two cities not in India that are on the Top 8 Global Sourcing Cities? (p.22) What cities top the list of the Top 5 Offshore Nations? (p.11-18)
What cities top the list of the Next 5 Offshore Nations? (p.18)
WEEK 5
LECTURE OUTLINES FOR Richard Haass The Age of Nonpolarity (PDF in Week 5 Folder) The Nonpolarity Order Describe the principal characteristics of nonpolarity? Which structure system is the thought to be most stable? What system is thought to be least stable? Explain why U.S. power and influence are less and less linked in an era of nonpolarity. Nonpolarity: More than a Moment of Disorder Describe two fundamental ways in which globalization will continue to reinforce nonpolarity. (p.3) Explain the threats and vulnerabilities of nonpolarity. (p.3) Explain how nonpolarity complicates diplomacy. (p.5) In what way can United States reduce the chances that a nonpolar world will become a cauldron of instability? (p.4-5)
READING STUDY GUIDE FORState Capitalism and the Crisis (PDF in Week
5 Folder) 1. What is state capitalism and how is this playing out in the energy market? (p.3) 2. Explain the role of sovereign wealth funds and their role in financing state capitalism? And what is the effect of state capitalism n the financial markets? (p.3-4) 3. Who are the potential winners and losers in state capitalism? (p.4) 4. What are the second-order effects as result of state capitalism? (p.5) 5. Will state capitalism reverse in the near future? (p. 5-6) LINK: The Case for a League of Democracies The current concert of democracies originate from whom? (p.1) What role does the league of democracies play in relation to the U.N.? (p.2)
LINK: Wide Dissatisfaction with Capitalism (PDF file under Week 5 Folder)
What are the views on free market capitalism? (p.1) What are the vies on the role of government in managing the economy? (p.3)
WEEK6
LECTURE OUTLINES FOR: Click to read: Water Wars: The Rise of a Hegemonic Concept Explain the main features of water wars. (6-7). Explain the main features of water peace. (p.7) Who benefits from the water war concept? (10-11) Who benefits from the water war concept? (12)
READING STUDY GUIDE FOR: Growing Links in Energy and Geopolitics (PDF of the article is posted in Week 5 folder) What is the consequence of China being at the center of the Pan-Asian Global Energy Bridge? (p.2) What are the four changes in todays world energy? (p.3-4) Who is Chinas principal supplier of oil? (p.13) And in what ways does this supplier benefits from China? (p.17-18) What region offers China the best option to reduce its dependence on the Gulf and help avoid the Malacca dilemma? (p.30) And in which ways do this region benefits from China? (p.36)
LINK: The business opportunity in conservation (PDF of the article is posted in Week 6 folder) What does data say about global supply and demand of water by 2030? (p.3) What have companies such as TheSwedishpulpandpaperproducerSCAandSABMiller
startedtodo?
LINK: Promoting energy efficiency in developing countries (PDF of the article is posted in Week 6 folder) Why is it important for policy makers and businesses in developing world to boost energy productivity (the output they achieve from the energy they consume) now? (p.2)
What percent do developing regions represent regarding the positive-return opportunities to reduce global energy demand? (p.3)