Global Interrelatedness In The 20th Century

In the late 20th century, technology began advancing so quickly that entire world economies underwent extraordinary transformations in very little time. It used to be only a handful of powerful people and corporations interacting in global trade and commerce, but technology has made it so “countries like India are now able to compete for global knowledge,” giving leaders and companies the ability to work with more nations than ever before (Friedman 7). The internet has given men and women the power to connect, communicate and provide information to people across the planet in an instant. It has given people the opportunity to seek knowledge, educate themselves and single-handily play a role in the world economy. This is called

The Great Depression was a worldwide phenomenon it was a time of poverty, despair, and grief caused by many different catastrophic events. This heart breaking event had the majority of Americans stuck on edge with twelve million unemployed with large families to feed but less food and resources. However, with the help of one things take a drastic turn and the worse becomes better.

The effects of the great depression caused a countrywide hunger, poverty and vast amounts of unemployment. There

“Today, most of the world is integrated into a single global economy, unlike during the cold war era” (Karon, and Hayoun 1). In today’s economy, neither the United States nor Russia is the largest player in the global economy, that position is leaning towards going to China in the near future. The end of the world-wide political rivalry between Russia and the United States has affected all other parts of the world as well.” Latin America today is largely independent of the once jealously enforced primacy of the United States; European influence over African politics has waned” (Karon and Hayoun 1). Global communication has greatly increased as well, since the end fall of the

The world we know today wouldn’t have been possible without globalization which is the ever-increasing interaction of people through economic and cultural exchange. We can use the internet to make online transactions to buy goods from overseas that ship across the water on large cargo ships or on airplanes. Vehicular transportation has caused us to be able to travel to any place in very little time. Cellphones have evolved all the way from the telegraph to allow us to make calls to neighboring countries. During the Age of Exploration, many European countries discovered parts of the world they have never existed throughout Asia and the Americas and with them they brought their influence, culture, and the desire to establish business by trade.

The world has gone through a great deal of changes throughout the centuries such as the mass influence of the British Empire and the ideology of imperialism to a potentially divided and fragmented world developing from the 1900s in aspects of global economic, political and social dimensions. These aspects have all been influenced by a variety of events throughout the 20th century including the era of total war with the First and Second World War, the establishment of the United Nations and the human rights it entailed, decolonisation of India and Africa, the Cold War and the environmental

The world today is continually becoming more and more advanced through the development of new technology and scientific data. This incremental process has sped up dramatically in the last two decades as technological advances make it easier for people to travel, communicate, and do business internationally. Thus, Europe has been a leader in this advancement and has contributed greatly to the process the world calls globalization. “Globalization is an objective, empirical process of increasing economic and political connectivity, a subjective process unfolding in consciousness as the collective awareness of growing global interconnectedness, and a shot of specific globalizing project that seek to shape global conditions.” Europe has

Global economic interdependence has led to on average longer, healthier more prosperous lives for humans not to mention a remarkable rise in the overall human population. In the west the rise of globalization has led to the rise of a service economy. In the US and the EU most people now work not in agriculture or manufacturing but in the service sector. This can be in anything from information technology to entertainment. and that switch has really changed our psychology, especially the psychology of the upper classes living in the industrialized world. To quote Fredrick Jameson ‘we are so far removed from the realities of production that we inhabit an artificial dream world.’ Put it in these terms if you had to kill a cow every time you vised MacDonald’s you would perhaps eat fewer Burgers. Many social scientists of the now have also noted another change in our psychology, that globalization has led to a celebration of individualism particularly in the wake of the failures of the Marxists collective utopias in the early 90’s. The generation that lived through the great depression and World War 2 saw large scale collective responses to both those crises and they were both responses that limed freedom. The military draft for instance that limed your freedom, well you know not to be a soldier or the collectivization of health insurances in most of the post war west, which limited you freedom… to go bankrupt from healthcare coast or also government programs like social

The trajectory of global politics has dramatically changed after the end the World War II and after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. In fact, many countries around the globe became economically competitive, politically stable, and culturally optimistic. As the result, many nations started affirming themselves on the global arena while others continued to struggle internally and beyond the borders. The combinations of these factors have perhaps led to interdependency.

Globalisation and communication are deeply intertwined in international relations. Probably, there is no globalization without media and communication. The breaking up of space and time, brought about by electronic media, has led to individuals being able to interact with one another and within frameworks of mediated interaction, regardless of social disparities. The countries are no more impermeable to the events and happenings of other nations around the world. David Held and Anthony Mc grew’s definition of globalization which “denotes the expanding scale, growing magnitude, speeding up and deepening impact of transcontinental flows and patterns of social interaction.”

“Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era” – Eduardo Paes. It can be seen now that globalization is something that cannot be stopped. This process of international integration has come as a result of an interchange of world views, ideas, product, and other aspects of different cultures. The rapid development of transportation and telecommunication and furthermore the internet, has boosted globalization greatly and as a result a greater interdependence of economic and cultural activities. Interdependence is one the main factors of the economic welfare of the countries. Both regional and international organizations preach this idea among their member states and this is one of their main objectives. Nevertheless regional and international organizations have different geographical areas of operations and different laws which at some cases might result into conflict with each other. Both the European Union and NATO, in which I’ll focus my essay on, show proof that there might be cases where the UN’s and international law’s influence is nullified. I believe that regional organizations should be in a continuous cooperation with the international organizations, but it should be regional organizations as the

Friedman explains that globalization is characterized by how the world is intertwined and connected whereas the Cold War was marked by how the world was divided between two super powers, Russia and the United States. He uses the symbol of the wall to describe the Cold War era and the web to portray the globalization era. The system shifted from one were states were in charge, to one where nobody was in charge. States now compete for power not only with other states, but also with “super markets”—the 25 largest global stocks in the world—and with “super-empowered people.” Our interconnectedness and ability to communicate so rapidly has given individuals influence and control that is unprecedented. Where nation states never would have been compelled to answer to an ordinary person, the internet and email have given people the ability to mobilize large groups of people toward their cause, whether they are good or evil.

After the cold war, word ‘globalization’ was commonly used at a time of unprecedented interconnectedness when advanced nations experienced a ruthless development by exploiting energy resources and stressing culture forms in developing countries. To identify the definition of ‘globalization’, it is significant to clarify its appearance as well as implication.

As technology of the past gives way to the technology of the future, the world is becoming a smaller and smaller place. In economic terms, Global Interdependence is increasing as time goes on. In other words, we as the United States, as well as other countries, rely on each other for the three factors of production, Land, Labor and Capital. As noted in Thomas L. Freidman’s book, The World is Flat, there are several instances in which the Global Interdependence started. For example, the introduction of the Internet created a common forum in which people could connect to each other instantly was revolutionary in the interdependence process. In addition, the Global Interdependence Center, located in Philadelphia, PA is a non-profit

Global interdependence never really crossed my mind when thinking about company’s and what they must go through. As I acquired knowledge about globalized companies in other classes, I never dove this deep into it like this class. Overall, this class has taught me a great deal about all aspects of a company from the management standpoint to the logistics that go into getting products to where they need to go. Global interdependence is a huge topic in every company and is a topic that must be perfectly in sync with the company’s beliefs to be successful overseas. Global interdependence includes changes, interconnectedness, and diversity.