GLOBALIZATION: HISTORY, CONCEPTS, ISSUES

GOVT 469/569

Neal M. Rosendorf, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of International Relations

Fall 2017

Course Meeting Time/Day: Wednesdays, 3:00-5:30 PM

Course Meeting Place: Breland Hall, Room 179

Instructor Contact Information:

Email address: [email protected]
Mobile phone: (516) 423-1492 (I welcome texts; voice phone only in extremis, SVP!)

Office Location: Breland 345

Office Hours: TBA

Graduate Assistant: Miriam Guevara

NB: Please use only your NMSU account for email to/from the instructor and GA. You may at your
discretion forward your NMSU account messages to any current use email address.

INTRODUCTION

In this course we are going to focus on the phenomenon of globalization as a key driving force
leading the world, for better or for worse, into the future. Globalization was one of the great
buzzwords of the 1990s and early 2000s. Although there were rumblings of protest during this time,
in most academic and establishment circles globalization was seen as an unalloyed good leading the
US and the world toward something like a millennial utopia of widely shared peace, prosperity and
freedom. Over the past decade-plus public opinion in the US and a number of other countries
toward globalization has either taken a more equivocal turn or veered into an outright hostility that,
among other things, helped fuel Britains Brexit from the European Union and Donald Trumps
successful presidential campaign.

But what precisely is this phenomenon, when did it begin, and what does it encompass? What are
globalizations effects? How do they differ from place to place and time to time? Is globalization a
good, bad, or mutable thing? Who benefits and who does not? Is globalization inevitable? Is it
increasing or decreasing? Can it be regulated or governed? Can it be stopped, and if so, should it
be?

In an attempt to provide some answers to these questions, we will be looking at the history,
concepts and issues of globalization. We will range in time from the dawn of human history to the
present and beyond. We will examine various dimensions of the phenomenon, including the
economic, cultural, military/diplomatic, and environmental aspects. We will look at topics as varied
as information technology, genetic modification, transnational terrorism, popular culture and
international organizations as constituent elements of, and contributing factors to, contemporary
globalization.

Hence, we will be taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, with readings and discussions
grounded in history, political science, economics, sociology, cultural studies, and medicine and
biology. We will examine a combination of scholarly writings, journalism, primary documents, and
audio-visual sources. All sources for this course will be available either via the Internet or on
Canvas. Be advised: this course is reading-heavy, with well-prepared student class participation
mandatory!

COURSE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

For this 400/500-level course, it is expected that students will acquire a range of general and
specific attributes. These include: 1) an introduction to this field of study; 2) the honing of skills in
verbal and written communication, independence and creativity and, related to this, 3) critical
thinking and analysis; 4) enhanced ethical and social understanding; and 5) and the enhancement of
skills in utilizing interdisciplinary perspectives. Particular to this class, students will gain an
enhanced sense of the breadth of views concerning globalization from various thematic and
ideological perspectives and will hone their capacity to analyze and critique events, concepts and
trends, and scholars analyses thereof. Ultimately, this course will deepen students capacity to
function as critical citizens, both of their native countries and of the worlda capacity that is
always important, but especially so in the current global political climate.

NB while we will be reading a number of opinion-oriented pieces from various ideological vantage
points, the course does not seek to sway the opinion of students in any particular direction. But at
the same time students shouldindeed mustbe willing to consider well-reasoned views that may
be at variance with their own preconceived ideas about globalization in general or any of its
constituent elements. This extends to class participation, where evidence will underpin student
discussion with the instructor and with each other, and respectful disagreement, if disagreement
there be, is the order of the day.

Please note that the first two of the three essay assignments are to be approximately 1000-1100
words (about 4 pages) in length and are worth 20% each; the third will be 2000-2200 words (about
8-9 pages) in length and will be worth 35%. Your essays will assess all five major Graduate
Attributes. Your attendance and participation will count 25% toward your final grade, and will
assess your preparation, engagement, demonstrated knowledge of course subject matter, effective
communication, and problem-solving. Participating graduate students will prepare papers double
the length specified above and will be expected to meet periodically as a group with the instructor
at a time and day convenient to all participants.

Essays aim to:

Familiarize students with topics on the history of, themes related to, and issues concerning
globalization
Encourage students to be aware of and bring a critical perspective to bear on various types of
source materials from a variety of disciplines
Sharpen students skills in the art and mechanics of quality historical, social-scientific and
interdisciplinary writing
To encourage students to make full and judicious use of appropriate Web-based search tools,
data bases and audiovisual materials

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Week 1 (August 16): Course Introduction/Overview of Syllabus

Week 2 (August 23): Conceptualizing Globalization

David Held, et al., Introduction, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and
Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), on Canvas

Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Introduction, in Joseph S. Nye and John D.
Donahue, Governance in a Globalizing World (Washington: Brookings, 2000), on Canvas

Neal Rosendorf, Social and Cultural Globalization: Concepts, History, and Americas
Role, in Nye and Donahue, eds., Governance in a Globalizing World (Brookings 2000), on
Canvas

Kevin H. ORourke and Geoffrey G. Williamson, Once More: When Did Globalisation
Begin? European Review of Economic History, n. 8 (2004), at
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.421.8408&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Luke Martell, Introduction: Concepts of Globalization, The Sociology of Globalization,

2nd ed. (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2016), on Canvas

Week 3 (August 30): Globalization in the Pre-Modern Era

When Did Globalisation Start? Economist, 9/23/13, at
https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/economic-history-1

Jared Diamond, Continental Divides, Sciences, March/April 1997, on Canvas

(For a recent article that offers empirical support for Diamonds thesis, see David Laitin et al., Geographic
Axes and the Persistence of Cultural Diversity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 109, n.
26 (2012), at http://www.pnas.org/content/109/26/10263.full.pdf)

John Noble Wilford, Under Centuries of Sand, a Trading Hub, New York Times, 7/9/02, at
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/09/science/under-centuries-of-sand-a-trading-hub.html

Ingvild Gilhus, Orbis Terrarum Romanorum Est: Globalization Processes in the Roman
Empire, unpublished conference paper, 2002, on Canvas

David Lewis and Karl Moore, The Origins of Globalization: A Canadian Perspective,
Ivey Business Journal, May-June 2009, at http://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/the-
origins-of-globalization-a-canadian-perspective/

The Viking Diaspora Webpage, at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/diaspora.html

Andrew Lawler, Epic Pre-Columbian Voyage Suggested by Genes, Science, 10/23/14, at

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/epic-pre-columbian-voyage-suggested-genes

George Raudzens, Military Revolution or Maritime Evolution? Military Superiorities or

Transportation Advantages as Main Causes of European Colonial Conquests to 1788, The
Journal of Military History, July 1999, at
http://militaryrevolution.s3.amazonaws.com/Primary%20sources/MR-
Maritime%20Evolution.pdf

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 Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian, The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and
Ideas, Journal of Economic Perspectives, spring 2010, at
https://web.viu.ca/davies/H131/ColumbianExchange.pdf

Week 4 (September 6): The Making of the Modern Globalized World (I)
Emma Rothschild, Globalization and the Return of History, Foreign Policy; Summer
1999, on Canvas

Robert Harms, Early Globalization and the Slave Trade, YaleGlobal Online, 5/9/03, at
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/early-globalization-and-slave-trade

Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton, Atlantic, 12/12/14, at

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/empire-of-cotton/383660/

Daniel R. Headrick, The Tools of Imperialism: Technology and the Expansion of

European Colonial Empires in the Nineteenth Century, Journal of Modern History, June
1979, on Canvas

Neal Rosendorf, Expositions, in Pierre-Yves Saunier and Akira Iriye, eds., Palgrave
Dictionary of Transnational History: From the Mid-19th Century to the Present Day
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), on Canvas

Nigel Williams, How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Still Influences Science Today,
Guardian (UK), 8/2/815, at https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/aug/28/how-
the-great-exhibition-of-1851-still-influences-science-today

Barry Buzan and George Lawson, The Global Transformation: The Nineteenth Century
and the Making of Modern International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, n. 57
(2013), at https://historicalsociology.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/buzan-and-lawson-the-
great-transformation.pdf

Luigi Pascali, The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade, and Economic
Development, University of Warwick working paper, 2014, at
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66197/1/WRAP_twerp_1049_pascali.pdf

Week 5 (September 13): The Making of the Modern Globalized World (II)
Vaclav Smil, The Two Prime Movers of Globalization: History and Impact of Diesel
Engines and Gas Turbines, Journal of Global History, n. 2 (2007), at
http://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/docs/smil-article-20070000-jgh-2007.pdf

Grrlscientist, Influenza: How the Great War Helped Create the Greatest Pandemic Ever
Known, Guardian (UK), 7/30/14, at
https://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2014/jul/30/influenza-pandemic-1918-
viruses-biology-medicine-history

ric Germain, Out of Sight, Out of Reach: Moral Issues in the Globalization of the
Battlefield, International Review of the Red Cross, n. 97 (2015), on Canvas

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 David M. Kennedy, The Great Depression and World War II, at
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/essays/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-
1929-1945

Williamson Murray, Review of Gerhard Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of

World War II, Commentary, 5/1/94, at https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/a-
world-at-arms-by-gerhard-l-weinberg/

Gavin Edwards, The Beatles Make History with All You Need Is Love, Rolling Stone,
8/28/14, at http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-beatles-make-history-with-all-
you-need-is-love-a-minute-by-minute-breakdown-20140828

Zbigniew Brzezinski, America in the Technetronic Age: New Questions of Our Time,
Encounter, January 1968, at http://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1968jan-00016

Raymond Vernon, The Multinational Enterprise: Power Versus Sovereignty, Foreign

Affairs, July 1971, on Canvas

Week 6 (September 20): The United States: Rise and Impact of the Global Nation
Roundtable: Globalization and Its Limits Between the American Revolution and the Civil
War, Journal of American History, September 2016, on Canvas

Kevin Baker, They Took Manhattan, review of Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center
of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped
America, New York Times, 4/4/04, at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/books/they-took-
manhattan.html

Steve Fraser, How New Yorks Stock Went Up, review of Thomas Kessner, Capital City:
New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860-1900,
Los Angeles Times, 7/20/03, at http://articles.latimes.com/print/2003/jul/20/books/bk-
fraser20

US Expansion in North America: Map, StratFor, at

https://www.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/main/images/US_old_territories_800.jpg

Native American Cultural Areas: Map, at https://s-media-cache-

ak0.pinimg.com/originals/6e/3d/75/6e3d75fead9e28aa9a7f88eb22b9c95e.jpg

David Ward, Population Growth, Migration, and Urbanization, 1860-1920, in Thomas F.

McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller, eds., North America: The Historical Geography of a
Changing Continent, 2nd ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), on Canvas

Shut the Door: Statement of Sen. Ellison DuRant Smith, 1924, at

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5080

Queens One of the Most Diverse Places on Earth, New Figures Show, New York Daily
News, 7/12/09, at http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/queens-diverse-places-
earth-new-figures-show-article-1.430744

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 Orlando Patterson, Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos,
World Policy Journal, v. 11, n. 2 (1994), at
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/patterson/files/ecumencial.pdf

Stphane Dorin, The Global Circulations of Jazz, Jazz Research Journal, v.10, n. 1-2
(2016), at https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JAZZ/article/view/29354/27714

Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, Americas Impact: The End of Empire and the
Globalization of the Westphalian System, Princeton University, 2015, at
http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/gji3/files/am-impact-dd-gji-final-1-august-
2015.pdf

David Nasaw, The Empire Builders, review of Warren Zimmerman, First Great Triumph:
How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power), New York Times, 11/24/02, at
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/books/the-empire-builders.html

Henry Luce, The American Century, Time Magazine, 2/17/41 at

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6139.htm

A Report to the National Security Council: United States Objectives and Programs for
National Security NSC-68, 1950, excerpt on Canvas (full original document available at
https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/coldwar/documents/pdf/10-
1.pdf)

Lane Crothers, The Hegemony of Pop, The European, 9/19/11, at

http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/lane-crothers--2/6201-american-culture-american-
influence (for a non-US authorial perspective, See Rob Kroes, American Empire
and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End, Diplomatic History, Fall 1999,
available via Academic Search Premier at the NMSU Library database)

FIRST SHORT PAPER DUE SEPTEMBER 27 (1000-1100 WORDS)

[Note: the paper should reflect engagement with readings through week 6]

Week 7 (September 27): Economic Globalization

Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisms Discontents, The American Prospect, winter 2002, at
http://prospect.org/article/globalisms-discontents

Nick Matheson, Three Weeks that Changed the World, Guardian (UK), 12/27/08, at
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/dec/28/markets-credit-crunch-banking-2008

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its New Discontents, Project Syndicate, 8/5/16, at
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/globalization-new-discontents-by-joseph-e--
stiglitz-2016-08

Carl Bildt, Restoring Faith in Globalization, Globe and Mail (Toronto), 2/22/17, at
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/restoring-faith-in-globalization/article34098977/

John Cassidy, R.I.P., Free Trade Treaties? New Yorker, 6/16/15, at

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/r-i-p-free-trade-treaties

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 Richard A. Epstein, Defending Free Trade, Hoover Institution Website, 7/11/16, at
http://www.hoover.org/research/defending-free-trade

George J. Borjas, Immigration and Globalization: A Review Essay, Journal of Economic

Literature, v. 53, n. 4 (2015), at
https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/fs/gborjas/publications/journal/JEL2015.pdf

Ian Goldin, How Immigration has Changed the Worldfor the Better, World Economic
Forum Website, 1/7/16, at https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/how-immigration-
has-changed-the-world-for-the-better

Nathan Gardels, Globalization Will Work if We Stop Catering to the Elite, Says Larry
Summers, WorldPost, 6/22/17, at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/globalization-
larry-summers_us_594b0440e4b0312cfb616164

Dani Rodrik, Populism and the Economics of Globalization (August 2017 revision),
Kennedy School of Government, at https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/files/dani-
rodrik/files/populism_and_the_economics_of_globalization.pdf

Week 8 (October 4): Environmental Globalization

Mike Davis, The Origin of the Third World, Antipode, v. 31, n. 1 (2000), at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8330.00119/pdf

Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, Defining the Anthropocene, Nature, 3/12/15, at
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273467448_Defining_the_Anthropocene

Eliza Griswold, How Silent Spring Ignited the Environmental Movement, New York
Times, 9/21/12, at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/how-silent-spring-
ignited-the-environmental-movement.html

Michael Specter, Seeds of Doubt, New Yorker, 8/25/14, at

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt

Meera Senthilingam, Seven Reasons Were More at Risk than Ever of a Global
Pandemic, CNN, 4/10/17, at http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/03/health/pandemic-risk-virus-
bacteria/index.html

Jill Lepore, The Atomic Origins of Climate Science, New Yorker, 1/30/17, at
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-origins-of-climate-science

Elizabeth Jardim, From Smart to Senseless: The Global Impact of Ten Years of
Smartphones, Greenpeace Research, February/March 2017, at
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FINAL-10YearsSmartphones-
Report-Design-230217-Digital.pdf

In-Class Viewing: Contagion (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2011)

Week 9 (October 11): Military-Diplomatic Globalization

Neal Rosendorf, Globalization, in Ruud van Dyck, et al., Encyclopedia of the Cold War,
v. 1(London: Routledge, 2008), on Canvas

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 Laurie R. Blank, Defining the Battlefield in Contemporary Conflict and Counterterrorism:
Understanding the Parameters of the Zone of Combat, Georgia Journal of International
and Comparative Law, v. 39, n. 1 (2010), at
http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=gjicl

William J. Lynn III, The End of the Military-Industrial Complex: How the Pentagon Is
Adapting to Globalization, Foreign Affairs, Nov-Dec 2014, on Canvas

Shavit Matias, Combatting Cyberattacks in the Age of Globalization, Hoover Institution,

3/5/15, at http://www.hoover.org/research/combating-cyberattacks-age-globalization

Capt. Johnny Sokolowski, Jr., The Future of War: How Globalization is Changing the
Security Paradigm, Military Review, Jan-Feb 2016, at
http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20160228
_art006.pdf

Victor Mallet, Terror: The Globalization of Extremism, Financial Times (UK), 2/1/16, at
https://www.ft.com/content/a181bbda-c8e1-11e5-be0b-b7ece4e953a0

Thomas Wright, Trump Takes Allies Back to 19th Century Global Order, Brookings
Institution, 3/21/17, at https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-
chaos/2017/03/21/trump-takes-allies-back-to-19th-century-global-order/

James Kirchik, Russias Plot Against the West, Politico.EU, 3/17/17, at

http://www.politico.eu/article/russia-plot-against-the-west-vladimir-putin-donald-trump-
europe/

Steve Byas, Trump Resists Globalization at G-20 Summit, New American, 7/10/17, at
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/26438-trump-resists-
globalization-at-g-20-summit

Stuart Madnick, Preparing for the Cyber-Attack that will Knock Out U.S. Power Grids,
Harvard Business Review, 5/10/17, at https://hbr.org/2017/05/preparing-for-the-
cyberattack-that-will-knock-out-u-s-power-grids

Henry Kissinger, Chaos and Order in a Changing World, CapX, 8/2/17, at

https://capx.co/chaos-and-order-in-a-changing-world/

Week 10 (October 18): Social-Cultural Globalization

Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld, Atlantic, March 1992, at
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1992/03/jihad-vs-mcworld/303882/

Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs, summer 1993, at

http://users.metu.edu.tr/utuba/Huntington.pdf

Neal Rosendorf, Social and Cultural Globalization: Concepts, History, and Americas
Role, in Nye and Donahue, eds., Governance in a Globalizing World (2000), on Canvas
(Just take a brief second look!)

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 Arthur Isak Applbaum, Culture, Identity and Legitimacy, in in Nye and Donahue, eds.,
Governance in a Globalizing World (2000), on Canvas

Tyler Cowen, Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures
(Princeton University Press, 2002), chapter 1, at
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7347.pdf

Mel van Elteren, Cultural Globalization and Transnational Flows of Things American, in
Piotr Pachura, ed., The Systemic Dimension of Globalization (InTech, 2011), at
https://www.intechopen.com/books/the-systemic-dimension-of-globalization/cultural-
globalization-and-transnational-flows-of-things-american

Greg Clark, How Cities took Over the World: A History of Globalisation Spanning 4,000
Years, Guardian (UK), 12/1/16, at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/dec/01/how-
cities-took-over-the-world-a-history-of-globalisation-spanning-4000-years

Decline in Democracy Spreads Across the Globe as Authoritarian Leaders Rise, NPR All
Things Considered radio broadcast, 8/3/17, at
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/03/541432445/decline-in-democracy-spreads-across-the-globe-
as-authoritarian-leaders-rise

SECOND BRIEF PAPER DUE OCTOBER 25th (1000-1100 WORDS)

[NOTE: The paper should reflect readings from weeks 7 through 10]

Week 11 (October 25): Wired World

Meike Laaff, Networked Knowledge, Decades before Google, SpiegelOnline, 7/22/11, at
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/internet-visionary-paul-otlet-networked-
knowledge-decades-before-google-a-775951.html

Heather Brown et al., The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings, Pew Research
Center, 11/28/12, at http://www.journalism.org/2012/11/28/role-social-media-arab-
uprisings/

Cahal Milmo, Bitcoin: How the Isle of Man Is Leading a Cryptocurrency Revolution,
Independent (UK), 1/3/16, at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bitcoin-
how-the-isle-of-man-is-sparking-a-cryptocurrency-revolution-a6794756.html

Jacob Poushter, Smartphone Ownership and Internet Usage Continues to Climb in

Emerging Economies, Pew Research Center, 2/22/16, at
http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/02/22/smartphone-ownership-and-internet-usage-
continues-to-climb-in-emerging-economies/

Alex Tapscott and Karen Gifford, Globalization Failed Too Many People. Heres the
Technology that Could Help It Work for Everyone, Quartz, 2/6/17 at
https://qz.com/903401/globalization-failed-too-many-people-heres-the-technology-that-
could-help-it-work-for-everyone/

Tom Simonite, The Internet Doesnt Have to Be Bad for Democracy, MIT Technology
Review, 6/2/17, at https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607990/the-internet-doesnt-have-
to-be-bad-for-democracy/

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 Jeff Spross, Amazon Eats the World, The Week, 6/19/17, at
http://theweek.com/articles/706484/amazon-eats-world

Massive Blow to Criminal Dark Web Activities After Globally Coordinated Operation,
Europol press release, 7/20/16, at https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/massive-
blow-to-criminal-dark-web-activities-after-globally-coordinated-operation

Samantha Bradshaw and Philip N. Howard, Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global
Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation, Oxford Computational Propaganda
Research Project, 2017, at http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-
content/uploads/sites/89/2017/07/Troops-Trolls-and-Troublemakers.pdf

Week 12 (November 1): The Developing World: Globalizations Victim, Beneficiary or Both?
Ricardo Hausmann, In Search of Convergence, Project Syndicate, 8/20/14, at
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ricardo-hausmann-asks-why-growth-rates-
are-converging-among-some-countries-and-diverging-among-others

Guillermo Calvo et al., Latin America in a New Global Political and Economic Scenario:
What Does It Mean for the Region? Brookings Institution, 2/2/17, at
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/latin-america-in-a-new-global-political-and-economic-
scenario-what-does-it-mean-for-the-region/

Laura Tyson and Susan Lund, Digital Globalization and the Developing World, Project
Syndicate, 3/25/16, at https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/digital-globalization-
opportunities-developing-countries-by-laura-tyson-and-susan-lund-2016-03

How Globalization and Technological Change Affect Gender Equality, MasterCard

Center for Inclusive Growth, 3/8/17, at https://mastercardcenter.org/insights/women-
winners-globalization/?doing_wp_cron=1501790173.2291998863220214843750

Madhumita Deb and Sanjay Sen, Globalization and Its Impact on Women in India,
International Journal of Applied Research, v. 2, n. 7 (2016) at
http://www.allresearchjournal.com/archives/2016/vol2issue7/PartE/2-6-8-367.pdf

Matthias Beck, The Risk Implications of Globalisation: An Expoloratory Analysis of 105

Major Industrial Accidents (1971-2010), International Journal of Environmental Research
and Public Health, v. 13 (2016) at
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808972/pdf/ijerph-13-00309.pdf

Chandran Nair, The Developed World Is Missing the Point About Modern Slavery, Time,
at 6/19/16, at http://time.com/4374377/slavery-developed-developing-world-index-slave-
labor/

Week 13 (November 8): International Organizations, Global Governance

Akira Iriye, A Century of NGOs, Diplomatic History, Summer 1999, on Canvas

David R. Stone, Imperialism and Sovereignty: The League of Nations' Drive to Control the
Global Arms Trade, Journal of Contemporary History, April 2000, on Canvas

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 Frits Kalshoven, The History of International Humanitarian Law Treaty-Making, in the
Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict (London: Routledge, 2016), at
https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780203798362.ch2

About the UN Website, at http://www.un.org/en/about-un/ (read over home page, as well

as pages Overview, Origin and History, Member States, Main Organs,
Leadership, Secretariat, Funds, Programmes, Specialized Agencies and Others)

The WTO.In Brief, at

https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/inbrief_e/inbr00_e.htm
(read home page as well as pages 1. History, 2. Organization, 3. Agreements, 4.
Developing Countries

World Economic Forum Website: History at https://www.weforum.org/about/history;

Why Does Our Work Matter at https://www.weforum.org/about/why-does-our-work-
matter; Leadership and Governance at https://www.weforum.org/about/leadership-and-
governance; What Are Our Key Areas of Focus? at
https://www.weforum.org/about/what-are-the-forum-s-key-areas-of-focus

Rear Adm. Paul Thomas, Remarks: Global Governance and Ocean Space, Coast Guard
Maritime Commons, 6/1/17, at http://mariners.coastguard.dodlive.mil/2017/06/01/612017-
nor-shipping-2017-remarks-by-rear-adm-paul-thomas-global-governance-and-ocean-space/

Week 14 (November 15): The 1990s-2000s Age of Hyper-Globalization: The Debate Rages On
(Its Great! Its a Catastrophe!)
Francis Fukuyama, Introduction, from The End of History and the Last Man (Penguin,
1992), at www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/fukuyama.htm

Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1999) introduction excerpt, at http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/the-
lexus-and-the-olive-tree-excerpt/
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William K. Tabb, After Seattle: Understanding the Politics of Globalization, Monthly

Review, March 2000, at https://monthlyreview.org/2000/03/01/after-seattle/

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Globalization Backlash, Foreign Policy,
Sept/Oct 2001, at http://www.trinityhistory.org/Glob/PDFS/Globalizationbacklash.pdf

David Sanger, Power Failure, review of Patrick Buchanans book The Great Betrayal,
New York Times, 5/24/98, at
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/24/reviews/980524.24sangert.html

Samuel Huntington, Dead Souls: the Denationalization of the American Elite, The
National Interest, spring 2004, at http://wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/04-
03_The_National_Interest._Samuel_Huntington_Davos_Man.pdf

Thomas Friedman Interview, Why the World Is Flat, Wired, 5/1/05, at

https://www.wired.com/2005/05/friedman-2/

In-Class Viewing: The Commanding Heights, PBS, 2002, Episode 1

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 ****No Class Meeting November 22Thanksgiving Break Week****

Week 15 (November 29): The Present and Future: From Hyper-Globalization to De-
Globalization? Or Was It All a Millenialist Mirage?
Jared Bernstein and Lori Wallach, The New Rules of the Road: A Progressive Approach to
Globalization, The American Prospect, 9/22/16, at http://prospect.org/article/new-rules-
road-progressive-approach-globalization

Jonathan Haidt, When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism, The American Interest,
July 2016, at https://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/07/10/when-and-why-
nationalism-beats-globalism/

Dani Rodrik, The Surprising Thing about the Globalization Backlash, WEForum,
7/15/16, at https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/the-surprising-thing-about-the-
backlash-against-globalization

Jacob Poushter, American Public, Foreign Policy Experts Sharply Disagree Over
Involvement in Global Economy, Pew Research Center, 10/28/16, at
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/28/american-public-foreign-policy-experts-
sharply-disagree-over-involvement-in-global-economy/

Greg Ip, We Are Not the World, Wall Street Journal, 1/6/17, at
http://www.hbscny.org/s/1738/images/gid4/editor_documents/we_are_not_the_world_-
_wsj.pdf?gid=4&pgid=61&no_cookie=1

Xi Jinping Delivers Robust Defence of Globalisation at Davos, Financial Times (UK),

1/18/17, at https://www.ft.com/content/67ec2ec0-dca2-11e6-9d7c-be108f1c1dce

Jameson Spivak, ICTs, Globalization, and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in the West: A
Case for Complex Systems Analysis, Georgetown Public Policy Review, spring 2017, at
http://www.gpprspring.com/right-wing-populism/#the-rise-of-right-wing-populism-1

Joel Kotkin, The Globalization Debate Is Just Beginning, Orange County Register,
5/15/17, at http://www.ocregister.com/2017/05/15/the-globalization-debate-is-just-
beginning/

Durukul Gun et al., The End of Globalisation as We Know It? Barclays Bank: Our
Insights, 6/2/17, at https://www.investmentbank.barclays.com/our-insights/the-end-of-
globalisation-as-we-know-
it.html?cid=ppc_sc08e00v11m08USpa00pv00&trid=43700022671715573

Nikil Saval, Globalisation: The Rise and Fall of an Idea that Swept the World, Guardian
(UK), 7/14/17, at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/14/globalisation-the-rise-
and-fall-of-an-idea-that-swept-the-world

Pankaj Ghamwat, Globalization in the Age of Trump, Harvard Business Review, July-
August 2017, at https://hbr.org/2017/07/globalization-in-the-age-of-trump

THIRD PAPER DUE ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8 (2000-2200 WORDS)

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Please Note: This syllabus may be subject to modification during the semester as the instructor
sees fit.

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 ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Neal M. Rosendorf is an associate professor of US foreign policy and international relations at

NMSU. He earned his PhD in international relations history at Harvard University in 2000. Dr.
Rosendorf spent several years as a researcher and lecturer at Harvards John F. Kennedy School of
Government, during which time he participated in the Schools seminal globalization analysis
project Visions of Governance in the 21st Century. He subsequently taught courses on IR history,
US foreign relations, globalization and US history at the University of Queensland in Brisbane,
Australia and at Long Island University in New York. He has been a research fellow at the
University of Southern Californias Center on Public Diplomacy; and he has spoken at such venues
as the US State Department, the InterAction Council of Former Heads of State, the Institute for
Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin and the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada.
Dr. Rosendorf is the author of Franco Sells Spain to America: Hollywood, Tourism and Public
Relations as Postwar Spanish Soft Power (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2014), as well as numerous
journal articles and book chapters. His current book project is The Jewish States Image-Building
Efforts in America, 1948-68: To Sell Israel, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan Press in
2018.

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