Experiencing Globalization: Active Teaching and Learning in International Political Economy

This article explores the teaching and learning challenges for the discipline of international studies (IS) that arise from the contemporary social, economic, and political changes usually labeled "globalization." The focus is upon the challenge posed to IS by a transformation in the nature of the relationship of teachers and students to the subject matter that they study: that is, teachers and students increasingly experience and contribute to globalization in the course of their daily lives as they simultaneously teach and learn about it. Significantly for the study of globalization in IS, pedagogical debates surrounding active teaching and learning highlight the potential for strategies that actively engage students' interests and everyday experiences with the subject itself. On this basis, the article outlines some potential routes into the active teaching and learning of globalization in the field of international political economy, illustrating these with examples from classroom activities and exercises.     

全球化对当代国际关系的影响

人类社会的全球化进程始于近代资本主义的对外扩张 ,西方资本主义国家在全球化的发展过程中始终扮演了推动者的作用。全球化的发展透视出一个以经济为中心 ,逐步向政治、文化等领域扩散的发展态势。西方国家在推动全球化发展的过程中 ,利用其资本、技术、信息和组织的优势 ,一直谋求把资本主义的经济模式、政治制度、价值观念和西方文化推向全球 ,构建西方发达国家主导的世界秩序。     

论全球化背景下的国际机制

国际机制是国际社会中一系列规范与预期的汇集,它所体现的一整套原则、规则和决策程序使无序社会的有序化成为可能,并降低了国际合作成本,增加了交往的信赖度。当今的全球化为国际机制的发展开拓了新空间,同时也对其规范化与制度化提出了更高的要求。     

金融全球化与转轨国家金融自由化的效应分析--以俄罗斯为例

自20世纪90年代以来,随着经济全球化的不断深化、贸易自由化和生产国际化的进一步扩大,金融全球化和金融自由化已成为一种更加明显甚至是必然的趋势;与此同时,原计划经济国家相继向市场经济转轨。在此背景下,金融全球化与转轨国家的经济和金融发展之间存在着互动关系,并具有内在的逻辑一致性。这一联动关系对经济转轨国家利弊兼具,经济转轨国家不仅要直面金融全球化所带来的利益和风险,而且要承受金融全球化与其经济和金融互动所产生的双重效应。同样,由于联动关系,如果转轨国家顺利融入金融全球化进程,并能获得较大的收益,这对金融全球化的可持续发展将是极大的贡献,否则他们的缺失或者不稳定将严重影响到金融全球化的可持续发展。     

全球化时代与国际秩序转变

世界已进入全球化时代.用<世界是平的>一书作者托马斯·弗里德曼的说法就是,始于1492年哥伦布远航并开辟了新旧世界之间贸易的全球化进程,现已进入其第三个伟大时代,一个全新的时代:3.0版的全球化时代.弗里德曼认为,与1.0版和2.0版全球化时代的一个重要不同是,3.0版全球化进程越来越受到非西方、非白人组成的团体的驱动,也就是真正成为一种全球范围的进程.这是一个具有根本意义的重大发展.     

Globalization: An Ascendant Paradigm?

International Studies is on the cusp of a debate between para-keepers , observers who are steadfast about maintaining the prevailing paradigms and deny that globalization offers a fresh way of thinking about the world, and para-makers , who bring into question what they regard as outmoded categories and claim to have shifted to an innovatory paradigm. This distinction is a heuristic that allows for various gradations and dynamic interactions between the keepers and the makers. It helps to identify anomalies in and discomfort with International Studies. Partly as a response to these problems, globalization studies has evolved and may be tentatively delimited by a distinct set of characteristics. But, in the near term, there is no looming Kuhnian crisis in the sense of an impending overthrow that would quickly sweep away reigning paradigms. Given that systematic research on globalization is only slightly more than a decade in the making, it is most likely that International Studies has entered an interregnum between the old and the new. At this time, as a paradigm, globalization is more of a potential than a worked-out framework. It may be best understood as a proto-paradigm.     

Simulating Globalization: Oil in Chad

The conflicting interests that underlie globalization can be difficult to grasp in a traditional classroom setting. The simulation presented here challenges students to examine the many different actors operating in the international system today. The focus is the Chad–Cameroon oil pipeline—a landmark example of cooperation and conflict between international institutions, non-governmental organizations and business interests. Given a scenario, students assume these roles and negotiate for the continued success of the pipeline. All the materials to run this exercise are included and if utilized, can provide a positive active learning experience.     

Globalization by the Numbers: Quantitative Indicators and the Role of Policy

Many writers have sought empirical referents for globalization. The most persuasive work has considered economic, political, cultural, and environmental indicators. Attempts to combine indicators from different spheres into a single index appear unpromising.     

信息革命与经济全球化

信息革命是指人类在认识世界的过程中 ,感知、反映、接收、传递、交流、综合分析和加工处理信息的工具与手段的革命性变革。人类文明的发展始终伴随着对信息获取、存储和运用能力的进步 ,2 0世纪中期以来 ,信息革命开始在全球蓬勃发展。信息革命是继工业化动力革命之后的人类新智能革命 ,它使人类社会面貌正在发生深刻的变化。在信息革命有力地推动下 ,世界进入了全球化迅猛发展、民族国家间联系密切、相互依存程度不断提高的新时代。在信息化新时代 ,认真研究和探讨信息革命与经济全球化的相互关系问题具有重要的理论与现实意义。     

全球化背景下的中越双边贸易

中越关系正常化以来,两国经贸合作持续快速发展,尤其在近年国际金融风暴的吹袭下,两国贸易逆市而上,充分展示了双方合作的广阔前景。在当前世界经济复杂多变的背景中,坚持优势互补、互利双赢原则,排除非经济因素干扰,进一步密切中越经贸合作关系,并妥当解决贸易失衡等问题,不断提升合作质量,对中越两国经济复苏和可持续增长均具有现实的推动意义。     

全球化背景下的国际中突--对全球化的一种反思

冷战结束后,全球化进入了一个崭新的时期,与此同时,全球化带来的国际中突具有了和以往不同的特点,即碎片化、边缘化和国际化.而全球化正是使国际冲突产生这些新特征的根本原因,只有把全球化建立在更加公平合理的国际政治经济新秩序的基础上,国际冲突才会得到根本解决.     

经济全球化与俄罗斯经济转轨

随着经济和科学技术的迅猛发展以及世界政治格局的变化,经济全球化的浪潮冲击着世界的每一个角落.美国作为当今经济全球化的最大受益者,它欲借经济全球化把世界各国纳入由美国主宰的全球政治经济的自由化进程,而按照美国处方实行自由化改革的俄罗斯则成为20世纪90年代以来经济全球化的最大受害者之一.当然,俄罗斯今天的衰落与其错误的经济转轨方向、激进的转轨战略和国内政治、民族问题的复杂直接相关,但在全球化趋势不断加强的今天,我们不能不考虑到俄罗斯经济转轨的国际背景.本文试图从20世纪经济全球化的发展与俄罗斯的角色、由美国主导的国际货币基金组织对俄罗斯经济转轨的影响以及俄罗斯应对经济全球化挑战的准备等三个方面出发,探讨全球化背景下的俄罗斯经济转轨.     

Globalization,Integration, and the European Welfare State

This paper considers three challenges to the mature European welfare states posed by economic and social integration, demographic changes, and the alleged decline of state capacity in the form of fiscal extraction in an era of globalization. I argue that the experiences of the older member states in the European Union are difficult to reconcile with the common assertions that globalization necessarily leads to a “race to the bottom” where welfare spending is downsized to the lowest common denominator. I develop a set of hypotheses on plausible linkages between demographic challenges, globalization, political capacity, and welfare spending, and test the propositions in an empirical analysis of 14 European Union member states from 1983 to 1998. My empirical results suggest that economic integration does not pose a threat to European welfare states. Rather, demographic changes such as low fertility rates and the aging of the population and their political implications for political leaders’ incentives are more serious challenges for the continuation of the welfare state in Europe.     

经济全球化中的澳大利亚经济发展趋势

在经济全球化进程中,澳大利亚经济经历了亚洲金融危机的冲击,保持了经济持续稳步的增长。21世纪初,尽管世界经济可能趋向于低速增长,但澳大利亚经济将能保持在年增长率3.5%左右,出口增长率约6%,可望保持在接近90年代的发展水平。     

More Labels, Fewer Refugees: Remaking the Refugee Label in an Era of Globalization

This paper revisits the concept of refugee labelling I elaboratednearly two decades ago. In radically different conditions, thecontemporary relevance and utility of the concept are re-examinedand re-established. Formulated at a time of regionally contained,mass refugee migration in the south during the late 1970s andearly 1980s, the paper argues that the concept still offersvital insights into the impacts of institutional and bureaucraticpower on the lives of refugees in a globalized era of transnationalsocial transformations, mixed migration flows, and the continuingpresence of large scale refugee migration. The core of the paperargues that the ‘convenient images’ of refugees,labelled within a co-opting humanitarian discourse in the past,have been displaced by a fractioning of the label which is drivenby the need to manage globalized processes and patterns of migrationand forced migration in particular. The paper re-evaluates theconcept using the three original axioms—forming, transformingand politicizing the label ‘refugee’. The core argumentis that in the contemporary era: a) the formation of the refugeelabel reflects causes and patterns of forced migration whichare much more complex than in the past, contrasting with anessentially homogeneous connotation in the past; b) respondingto this complexity, the refugee label is transformed by an institutional‘fractioning’ in order to manage the new migration;c) governments, rather than NGOs as in the past, are the pre-eminentagency in the contemporary processes of transforming the refugeelabel, a process driven by northern interests; d) the refugeelabel has become politicized by the reproduction of institutionalfractioning and by embedding the wider political discourse ofresistance to migrants and refugees.     

经济全球化对越南经济的影响

经济全球化是世界经济的发展趋势。在80年代中期以来,越南实行革新开放政策,主动融入世界经济,国内经济得到较快发展。同时,经济全球化也对越南的经济安全和政治安全提出了挑战。本文在简要介绍越南主动融入世界经济的过程后,着重分析经济全球化对越南的积极影响和对其经济安全和政治安全的影响。     

印度农业的全球化对策

农业从本质上将属于弱质产业。在经济全球化进程中,随着农产品贸易自由化的推行,各国农业特别是象印度这样人口众多的发展中国家的农业发展势必受到一定程度的冲击。如何应对经济全球化进程的冲击,将是摆在印度社会目前的重大问题。本文试图就印度在全球化进程中发展农业的对策进行某些概括,希望从中获得某些重要的启示。     

经济全球化与国际秩序

经济全球化是当今世界潮流,必将上升为影响国际关系的主导因素之一.本文根据国际关系特点分析经济全球化的影响,围绕国际关系所立足的国家利益的变化,对经济全球化时代的国家独立与相互依赖之间的辨证关系加以论证,同时关注经济全球化所带来的国际秩序的复杂变化.     

What Is Critical Globalization Studies?

From a critical perspective, precisely what kind of knowledge about globalization is meaningful? The distinctive province of a critical orientation to globalization is coming to be defined by a complex of five interacting components: reflexivity, historicism, decentering, crossovers between social inquiry and other streams of knowledge, and an emphasis on strategic transformations. Critical globalization studies may be employed to identify diverse tendencies in world order, parts of a contradictory whole that coexist, with different logics colliding with one another. These are elements of the old configuration, multilateral globalization ; the contemporary structure, militarized globalization ; and the potential constellation, democratic globalization . The motor of transformation is not only countervailing power but also alternative knowledge, which should be demystifying and enabling.     

中国与俄罗斯对外贸易与双边贸易发展比较分析

中国与俄罗斯在经济转型过程中,随着两国对外开放程度的不断提高,对外贸易与双边贸易都有不同程度的发展,但表现出较大的差异性;俄罗斯进出口贸易发展相对较为平稳,表现出激进式转型中的稳定性对外开放特征;虽然中国已经是俄罗斯商品的重要出口市场,但俄罗斯商品在中国市场上仍然面临着不确定性和其他国家的竞争,中俄双边贸易对俄罗斯的重要性明显高于对中国的重要性。