Colour coding: Case studies

KK1: Key terms

• State: Central actor in global politics w/ a permanent population, defined territory and recognised sovereignty.

• Citizenship: Member of a community w/ specific rights, privileges and responsibilities.

• Environmentalism: Concern about and action towards protecting the environment.

• Global community: People, states and non-state actors that are connected by technology who are economically, socially and politically interdependent.

• Global actor: A state, IGO, NGO or TNC that is involved in global politics.

• National interests: Pursued to ensure survival and potential growth of the state. States implement policies and harness types of powers to achieve national interests and maintain state sovereignty.

• Non-state actors: Global actor that is not a state and not required for global governance. This includes non-profit organisations and terrorist groups.

• Social connectedness: the frequency and ways people come together and interact with each other

• Power: Ability of a global actor to be influential to others.

• Multilateralism: A system of coordinating relations between 3+ states to pursue certain objectives.

• Unilateralism: When a state is acting alone, with little consideration for other global actors when pursuing foreign policy objectives.

• Globalisation: The acceleration of exchanges of goods, services, labour and capital. This promotes global independence. This is aided by rapid changes in tech and communication.

KK2: Political impact of globalisation such as global political movements and the potential for these to transcend national borders (ADD MORE INFO TO CASE STUDIES)

• Iron Curtain: A political, military and ideological barrier inflicted by the Soviet Union following WWII to block itself + central Europe from communicating with the West and noncommunist areas. The division between communist countries in Eastern Europe and Western Europe.

• Fall of the Iron Curtain: When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 which lead to the reunions of families and communication between different sides of Europe. It represents the collapse of the Soviet Union and the abandonment of the one-party rule.

• Bretton Woods Agreement: This

• Arab Spring - Internet: h

• Transnational Corporations: Companies involved with the production of goods and services across different countries.

  • Examples of transnational

  • corporations: Apple, McDonalds, Nike, Amazon

• Australian Free Trade Agreements: An international treaty between two or more economies which reduces or removes barriers to trade in goods and services.

KK3: Social impact of globalisation such as its effect on global communication, networking and international travel

• Pre-globalised world:

  • difficult and infrequent communication

  • expensive technology

  • unreliable without high tech items

  • communication worldwide was through a letter or overpriced phone calls

• Post-globalised world:

  • instant and continuous communication

  • relatively affordable/inexpensive technology

  • technology is more reliable due to frequent software updates

  • instant communication through social media, texts, calls, etc

KK4: Economic impact of globalisation such as the increasing power of TNCs and their effects on global commerce, trade and investment

• The law of comparative advantage

• The idea of factor price equalisation

• The concept of economies of scale

• IMF:

KK5: Impact of global interconnectedness on human rights, culture & the environment