Six Core Claims of Globalization by Mansfred Steger Flashcards
Claim 1
Globalization is About the Liberalization and Global Integration of Markets (not an Ideology)
Claim 2
Globalization is Inevitable and Irreversible
Claim 3
Nobody is in Charge of Globalization
Claim 4
Globalization Benefits Everyone (in the long run)
Claim 5
Globalization Furthers the Spread of Democracy in the World
Claim 6
Globalization Requires War on Terror
“The invisible happen yet Globalists usually convey the assertion that globalization is integration of markets in the form of moral imperatives. The concept of free trade arose as a moral principle even before it became a pillar of economics.
Claim 1
By seeing globalization as the natural historical local of the universe’s organization principles, it is passively accepted yet actively pursued.
Claim 2
Everything from the strength of our economy to the safety of our cities, to the health of our people, depends on events not only within our borders, but half way a world away.
Claim 2
The great beauty of globalization is that no one is in control. The great beauty of globalization is that it is not controlled by any individual, any government, any institution.
Claim 3
“Economic growth and progress in today’s interdependent world is bound up with the process of globalization. Globalization provides great opportunities for the future, not only for our countries, but for all others too. Hence we are convinced that the process of globalization is a source of hope for the future.
Claim 4
The globalist claim is anchored in the neoliberal assertion that freedom, free-markets,free trade and democracy are synonymous terms. This focus on the act of voting-in which equality prevails only in the formal sense-helps to obscure the conditions of inequality reflected in existing asymmetrical power relations in society.
Claim 5
