Chapter 1 IB

Globalization involves...

• A stretching of social, political, and economic activities across political frontiers.

• A growing magnitude of interconnectedness in almost every sphere of social existence.

• An accelerating pace of global interactions and processes associated with a deepening enmeshment of the local and the global.

• All of the answer options given are correct

In the first wave, the age of discovery (1450-1850), globalization...

• Was a benign form of cosmopolitan democracy.

• Was equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups.

• Was decisively shaped by European expansion and conquest.

• Saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour.

The second wave (1850-1945)...

• Defined a new age in world history so that today the microchip and the satellite are considered icons of a globalized world order.

• Evidenced a major expansion in the spread and entrenchment of European empires.

• Saw the expansion of transnational and international law from trade to human rights.

• Saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour.

Asymmetrical globalization is...

• The way in which contemporary globalization is equally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups.

• The way in which contemporary globalization is unequally experienced across the world and amongst different social groups.

• The degree to which networks or patterns of social interaction are formally constituted as organizations with specific purposes.

• A process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries.

Sceptical accounts of globalization dismiss its significance because they argue that...

• By comparison with the period 1870 to 1914, the world is now less globalized economically, politically and culturally.

• The vast bulk of international economic and political activity is concentrated within the group of OECD states.

• Globalization is at best a self-serving myth or ideology which reinforces Western and particularly US hegemony in world politics.

• All of the answer options given are correct

State autonomy is challenged in the "post-Westphalian" order because...

• Countries appear as autonomous containers of political, social and economic activity in that fixed borders separate the domestic sphere from the world outside.

• By comparison with the heyday of European global empires the majority of the world population and countries in the South are now much less integrated into the global system.

• In a more interdependent world, national governments are forced to engage in extensive multilateral collaboration and co-operation simply to achieve domestic objectives.

• State power, nationalism and territorial boundaries are of growing, not less importance in world politics.

Time-space compression is...

• Capitalism’s insatiable requirement for new markets and profits, which lead inevitably to the globalization of economic activity.

• A shared ecology involving shared environmental problems, from global warming to species protection, alongside the creation of multilateral responses and regimes of global environmental governance.

• Central to any account of globalization since it is a truism that without modern communications infrastructures, in particular, a global system or worldwide economy would not be possible.

• The technologically induced erosion of distance and time, which gives the appearance of a world that is, in communication terms, shrinking.

The unit of analysis of international relations scholars has traditionally been…

• Globalization

• Regionalization

• The State

• International Organizations

What does the ‘resource curse’ argument deal with?

• Companies do not become involved in the repression that often sustains natural resource extraction.

• The paradox of too much natural resource wealth leading to underdevelopment, repression and rebellion.

• Investment and international trade is not linked with natural resource wealth.

• All of the above

According to Haufler (2015), ‘the international business studies literature often displays an optimistic perspective on the impact of business, [while] international relations scholars are much more skeptical’.

• True

• False