Globalization and Democracy

IDS Seminar 2000: Nancy Meaker, Lila Train, Sage Scott, Nasheeba Selim.

"Globalization is now an important, unavoidable frame of reference for contemporary discussions of democratic governance. Inhabiting the economic, social, cultural, and political spheres of every country, globalization adds a new and problematic level of complexity in understanding and assessing democratic rule. Globalization produces effects of insecurity, instability, inequality, and inflexiblity that inevitably have ramifications for the legitimacy, accountability, representation, participation and justice normally associated with democratic life. At the same time, the global circulation of democratic values, norms, and ideas - as well as certain often-ignored aspects of of economic liberalization-offer paths to citizen empowerment." -Jeffrey Stark

"The (metaphor for the) international system which is now developing...is of an egg-box containing the shells of sovereignty, but alongside it a global community omelette is cooking." -Arjun Appdural

"For business purposes, the boundaries that separate one nation from another are no more real than the equator. They are merely convenient demarcations of ethnic, linguistic and cultural entities." -Jacques G. Maisonrouge, IBM executive

Communists in Russia protesting against their ineffective democratic government in last year's May Day parade

"...among the 'litany of sins' of globalization discourse that we most seek to expose and react to are: its economism; its economic reductionism; its techonological determinism; its political cynicism, defeatism, and immobilism; its de-socialization of the subject and resocializtion of risk; its teleological subtext of inexorable global 'logic' driven exclusively by capital accumulation and the market; and its ritual exclusion of factors, causes or goals other than capital accumulation and the market from the priority of values to be pursued by social action." -Barry K. Gills

Contents

Economic Aspects
Political Structures
Human Rights
Communications and Social Change
Reference List
Readings
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Created: February/27/2000.

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