Globalization Flashcards

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What is Globalization

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  • When a business, and other corporations expands to the point where it has international power
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What are the 3 p’s of Globalization

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Phenomenon
- historical events that happen somewhere impact everywhere else
-intricate interconnectedness
philosophy
- People experiences converging
process
-eliminated political and geographical distances
-makes the world smaller
internet
we are able to go across borders like never before in history

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Top 5 country producers(as of 2010)

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  • USA
    -China
    -Japan
    -Germany
    -Italy
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Interference

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Hindering something from moving forward

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Regulation

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Strict laws put in place
something being controlled

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Subsidy

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  • monetary asistance provider(for groups, people or public interest)
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Freemarket economy

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  • a market that thrives off of the ability to do things freely without being regulated . the government has little to no interference
    laissez faire capitalism
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Closed market

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Not open to business from outside and foreign countries ex: Latin America used to be a closed market until the 1980s

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How does oil trading affect the economy?

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  • Oil trading is one of the most important things
  • supply and demand
  • the more people we have the more oil we need
    -China, and India other places becoming more industrialized and urbanized, so there needed to be a significant increase in sales
  • Yom Kippur- happened I 1973
    Iranian revolution1979
    affects business shipping
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Adam smith

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  • Irish economist
    -can also be known as the father
  • Important works: wealth of nations
    invisible hand
    laissez faire
    government should leave the economy alone, in other words it is a free market
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What is the concept of the invisible hand

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  • yet even though the economy is moving, and people are free to make decisions, the invisible hand is there subconsciously. meaning that even though o=you make decisions yourself it is ultimately going to impact the economy in one way
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What book did Adam smith contribute

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The wealth of nations

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Karl Marx

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  • Communist
    important works: communist manifesto
  • the workers are going to be the ones providing the goods, then the owners get and own everything
    Proletariat’s VS Bourgeoisie
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John Keynes Maynard

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  • Macroeconomics
    -spending in the economy affects employment
    unemployment benefits
    Governments should play a key role in their economies
    “in the long term we are all dead”
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Milton

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Money growth so that the economy can be stable
Monetarist
in order for you to reap its benefits you have to put money in
Free to chose

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IMF

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International Monetary Fund
1. oversee fixed exchange rates
2.promote convertibility
3.Lender of last resort

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What was the wolrd bank known as in the past

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  • IBRD
    International, bank for reconstruction and development
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What makes part of the international trade organuization in the present day

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What does the World bank do?

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-They enable people to borrow money
-Infastructure

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What was the Marshall plan?

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  • AN American plan that aimed to help a war torn Europe, and by helping them they get lots of money
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jobs of GATT and WTO

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Reduce national barriers

Stop competitive trade policies

Finally established in 1994 – called World Trade
Organization

150 member states

30 ‘observers’

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The Bretton woods Trio

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International Monetary Fund (IMF)

The World Bank

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

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Name 5 big Corporations

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-walmart
-Toyota
- Volkswagon
-Apple
state grids

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Yalta conference

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How they(US, UK, USSR) are going to reconstruct old Europe post war

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Potsdam
Negation of how to end WW2
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Isolation VS containment
meaning, that if you were in complete isolation, you put a stop to that then you start going into nation which prohibits other from getting involved The Americans get involved in: The Korean War the Vietnam war cuban misslie crisis The Afghan conflict
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Dwight Eisenhower
-President -part of military
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SIPRI
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
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5 Forms of Human Trafficking
Pornorgraphy Organ Labour forced prostitution Servitude
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Human trafficking cases in Ottawa?
-Over a seven year period 7 men have been arrested for zex trafficking from 2010-2020, 1 in every 10 police report to human trafficking
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Methods of controlling the Victim
-Physical abuse -Sexual abuse Blackmailing Money branding
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3 concepts of Sipri
1. US continues to be the worlds most dominant force 2. as if 2010, Middle East giant 10 times more weapons 3.india has more weapon imports
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On the list of Big countries and economic entities where does Canada score
Canada is number 9th , right beforee Walmart
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What lead to the stockpiling of weapons
1949 - USSR atomic bomb (announces it has entered the atomic age) - challenging American hegemony (USA no longer dominates world)
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NATO - security alliance of 30 countries, safeguards freedom by military and political means NORAD - military command responsible for aerospace warning and control, commander is appointed by the Heads of Government of Canada and the United States DEW LINE - system of radar stations in the Northern Arctic region of Canada, shut down in late 1980s, increased connections between Inuit peoples and Canadian polity, provided economic development
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SIPRI
Arms Trade tracker, records value of military imports Swedish (Stockholm)
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Countries with high sex trafficking
Thailand (military state) A lot of prostitution; quick and easy money Not legal but mostly unprosecuted because people spend money which is good for the economy A lot of tourists Unstable government Military run Very poor population Ukraine (Former Soviet) Mono Economy Moldova (Former Soviet) Mono Economy Romania (Former Soviet) Belarus (Former Soviet) Nepal (Former British Raj and poor lmao) Libya (Former Ottoman/Italian/French/Brit colony also poor) A lot of people escaping the Middle East; easy targets North Africa; labour is a most popular form of trafficking
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What do all the high sex trafficking countries have in common?
Poor Have relaxed government officials Poor Have trafficking be “illegal”
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Ways victims fall into sex trafficking
Romeo/ Loverboy - A relationship that leads to blackmail and trafficking (Andrew Tate) Jobs - Promise of jobs and financial stability for families (Qatar World Cup controversy + UAE construction controversy) Modelling Industries - sussy business Exploitation - “Friends” bringing other friends into trafficking Buy them dogs and after forming an emotional attachment they beat the dog Saying they owe them money and make them “work” for it.
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Ottawa is a HUB for sex trafficking in Canada
Between two major cities, Montreal et Toronto Girls (overwhelmingly) are transported between the three cities to be used while under the nose of law enforcement 10% of sex trafficking cases despite not holding 10% of Canada’s population (disproportionate) Indigenous communities most at risk
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Ottawa holds_ percent of sex trafficking cases
10 percent
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Trafficking
Someone will continue to profit off the transport of a certain good (mostly people) after “acquiring” them
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Smuggling
illegally bringing goods or someone over a(ny) border A business transaction (you pay for someone/thing to be smuggled, and the deal is done) Think smuggling drugs over the borde
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Which countries loaned money and are now in depth
Greece Germany