IRE 1 Global Interdependence

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IRE 1 - Global Interdependence

• Gateway course for IR major
• World Trade and Development
• Peace and Security
• Peoples and Nationalities
• Environment, Health and Natural Resources
• Multi-disciplinary
• Web-site under construction

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IRE 1 - Global Interdependence

• What is a global issue?
• Trans-sovereign problems crossing borders
• Broad impact
• What is globalization?
• Is globalization shrinking the world? How?
• What forces are countering globalization?
• Is globalization good or bad?

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Course Themes and Questions

• Themes
• integration - fragmentation
• universalism - particularism
• borderless world - end of state sovereignty
• Questions
• What is globalization?
• What is its economic, political and cultural
  impact?
• Is globalization new?
• Does globalization mean the demise of the state
  and local culture?
• How has 9/11 affected globalization?