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Chapter 11: The Globalization of World Politics
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Chapter 11: The
Globalization of World
Politics
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Population Growth
Annual population growth rate:
• 2.2% (maximum) in 1964
• Currently 1.2%
6.8 billion people
Growth highest in Global South
• 95% of total growth
• Often unable to deal with social, economic and environmental problems of larger population
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World Population Growth
Projections to the Year 2050
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Global South
Population Growth
High fertility rates
Relatively low death rates
Demographic transition model:
• High death and birth rates replaced by low death
and birth rates
• Europe and North America 1750–1930
• A part of modernization
• However, Global South has high birth rates and
low death rates, with minimal modernization
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The Aging and Graying
World Population
Rising fertility rates coinciding
with increasing life expectancies
aging population
Less taxpayers and greater
government costs
Contributes to the divide between
rich and poor
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The Global North–Global
South Population Divide
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Urbanization
Dual societies
• City dwellers
• Rural, poor periphery
Externalities
• Aggravation of health and
environmental problems
• Straining supplies of clean water,
shelter, and sanitation
• Crime, smog and communicable
diseases
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A World that is “Spiky,” Not Flat
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Global Migration Patterns
Global migration crisis
20 million people each year
Externalities
• Erosion of cultural identity and citizenship
• Remittances
Labor
College
Trafficking
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Foreign Students as a Percent of All
University Students in Leading Countries
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Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS
and Swine Flu
TB
• 2 million deaths per year
• Drug resistant strains
HIV/AIDS
• 14,500 new infections daily
• Approximately 8000 deaths daily
• > 90% new infections in Global South
• Could substantially lower population growth
Swine Flu
• Common name for H1N1 virus
• Pandemic
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Death in the Prime of Life: The Most
Seriously HIV-Affected Countries
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The Global Information Age
Globalization
Cosmopolitan viewpoint: An outlook
that values viewing the cosmos or entire
world as the best polity or unit for political
governance and personal identity, as
opposed to other politics, such
as one’s local metropolis or
city of residence
Global communication
• Digital divide
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The Media:
Markets or Monopoly?
Cartel of ten corporations in the
Global North
Agenda setting
New World Information and
Communication Order (NWICO)
• 1980 call by the less-developed Global South to
combat “cultural imperialism” by
circumscribing news and information
disseminated by Western transnational news
agencies
World Telecom Pact, 1997
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The Digital Divide in Information
and Communication Technologies
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Globalization and
the Global Future
Reduces capacity of state
Rising power of nonstate actors
Liberals optimistic of prospects for
global civil society
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Levels of Globalization
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