UIMP Visiones Internacionales desde España y Nuevos escenarios estrategicos s.XXI: Globalization,...

Anthony GiddensDirector of the London School of Economics.

Among his 34 books are The Third Way: The

Renewal of Social Democracy, The Third Way

and It's Critics, and Runaway World : How

Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives.

Anthony Giddens is the most widely-read and

cited social theorist of his generation.

His ideas about Globalization have profoundly

influenced the writing and teaching of sociology

and social theory around the world.

Frequently referred to as Tony Blair's guru,

Giddens has made a strong impact on the

evolution of New Labour.

Anthony GiddensWe live in an era of unprecedented

globalization.

that change is more often than not

attributed exclusively to the

convergence of technology with the

financial markets.

But too often, the larger point is

missed: we have a historic opportunity.

"we have the chance to take over where the 20th century failed,

and a key project for us is to drag the history of the 21st century

away from that of the 20th.“http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/giddens/giddens_index.html

Guidden‟s conclusions

There are five areas where global institutions

need to be further developed:

1. Governance of the world economy

2. Global Ecological management

3. Regulation of corporate power

4. Warfare control

5. Fostering Transnational Democracy

(Giddens 2000, p. 124).

Extended (my) conclusions

Same global basic principles & patterns we

have seen after first century of globalization will

apply for the second stage.

Human communications, driven & enriched by:

1. wireless technology

2. mobile internet services &

3. global communities...

...will accelerate exponentially social, political &

economical transformations.

(@efernandez #visiones21 #UIMP – August 2011).

World Global Economy

Nation-states are main actors within

global political order

Corporations are the dominant

agents within the world economy.

In their trading relations, and with

consumers, companies … depend

upon production for profit.

Their increasing global influence

creates world extension of

commodity markets,

including money markets.

World Global Economy

The turnover of multinational companies might

be bigger than GDP of most states.

But nation states are still generically much more

powerful.

Reasons are:

1. Control of Territory.

2. Military force.

3. Law system & Enforcement.

(Giddens 2000, p. 122).

How will globalization affect the nation-state?

Globalization affects the nation-state in 3 ways

1. Globalization, especially the global marketplace, takes certain powers

away from the nation-state.

• Nation-states are not as in command of their economic futures as they

used to be.

2. The more we globalize, the more we localize.

• Globalization creates new possibilities and motivations for local

cultural autonomy and identities.

3. Emergence of regional groupings or “regional states”.

• Globalization also pushes sideways. Giddens refers to Catalonia as an

example of this in the context of UE.

There has been a major expansion of global interdependence

in the division of labor since the Second World War.

Shifts happened in the worldwide distribution of production:

1. Deindustrialization of some regions in the developed

countries

2. Emergence of the Newly Industrializing Countries in

the Third World

(Giddens 1990, p. 76).

International Division of Labor

Social movements

Giddens has identified four areas in which social movements operate in

modern societies:

1. Democratic work for political rights

2. Labor work for control of the workplace

3. Ecological concerned with the environment

4. Peace work toward, well, peace

Social Communities

„Globalization from below‟:Involving millions of people and organized groups of all kinds.

An infrastructure of global civil society built by these changes.

It can be indexed by the growing number of Non-Governmental

Organizations:

• In 1950 there were only 200-300 NGOs.

• Now there are more than 10,000, trend is sharply upwards

(Giddens 2000, p. 123).

BB Protect

“ The driving force of the new

globalization is the communications

revolution."

Beyond its effects on the financial markets

and corporations,

This revolution is fundamentally altering

individuals and the way society & public

institutions interact.

Definition of Globalization

in the context of communications

“Globalization can be defined as the

intensification of worldwide social relations which

link distant localities in such a way that local

happenings are shaped by events occurring

many miles away and vice versa.”

Dimensions of modernity

& communicationsGiddens maintains that the dynamism of modernity is reliant on the following:

1. Separation of time and space:

• The condition of time-space distanciation.

2. Disembedding of social systems:

• The lifting out of social relations from local context.

3. Reflexive appropriation of knowledge/Reflexivity.

• A process through which social practices are

constantly examined and reformed.

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@efernandez