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Global Studies - CPS Specialty (GBST) 1 Global Studies - CPS Specialty (GBST)
Global Studies - CPS Specialty (GBST) 1 Global Studies - CPS Specialty (GBST) Search GBST Courses using FocusSearch (http:// catalog.northeastern.edu/class-search/?subject=GBST) GBST 1011. Globalization and International Affairs. (4 Hours) Offers an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing global/international affairs. Examines the politics, economics, culture, and history of current international issues through lectures, guest lectures, film, case studies, and readings across the disciplines. GBST 1012. The Global Learning Experience. (1 Hour) Examines global citizenship in the 21st century. Introduces the concepts of global citizenship, cosmopolitanism, pluralism, and culture. Connects local issues at host sites with broader dynamics of globalization, migration, positionality, power, and privilege.#Offers opportunities to analyze and apply ideas through personal reflection, application of intercultural theory, and team-based problem solving. GBST 1020. Community Learning 1. (1 Hour) Offers an introduction to community learning, social justice, and cross- cultural collaboration in Boston. The main objective is to help students prepare for, gain from, and reflect upon their semester in Boston as a profound global experience. Uses lectures, course readings, group discussions, collaborative projects, and semester-long service-learning opportunities to challenge students to ask critical questions and become global citizens and ambassadors by actively participating in their own learning community, as well as the greater Northeastern community, and beyond into Boston. Ongoing, online reflection is designed to help students articulate their own experiences, respond to others’ experiences, and ultimately make connections with the global experiences of others. GBST 1030. Community Learning 2. (1 Hour) Continues the introduction of community learning, social justice, and cross-cultural collaboration begun in GBST 1020. -
The Digital Divide: a Digital Bangladesh by 2021?
International Journal of Education and Human Developments Vol. 1 No. 3; November 2015 The Digital Divide: A digital Bangladesh by 2021? Kristen Waughen, Ph.D. Students In Free Enterprise Sam M Walton Fellow Elizabethtown College Department of Math and Computer Sciences Elizabethtown, PA 17022, USA. Abstract The purpose of this research was to define and identify the digital divide and the various considerations that factor into a country’s technological status. The goal was to investigate the current technological position of Bangladesh, and gaps in their progress because they aim to be a Digital Bangladesh by 2021. The digital divide can be witnessed all over the world between countries and within countries, and there are various aspects that contribute to this situation. Some of the characteristics are access, education, economics, social relationships, income, age, geographical location, government, and the technological skills of teachers, students, and people. One more significant characteristic is the number of children in the household. Also, developed versus developing countries have similar issues on different scales, but together these characteristics affect the success of digital lifestyle of a region or country. Keywords: digital divide, knowledge, poor, barriers, Internet, communication, technology, education, Bangladesh, GDP Elements of the Divide One important element for a country in the 21st century is its technological advancement. Availability, usage, and diffusion of the technology throughout the country are three considerations. One term often used to describe this status is the digital divide (Prensky, 2001). The first computer used in Bangladesh was a mainframe in 1964 (SDNP Bangladesh, 2000). What has happened since then? I will explore the following components of the digital divide in Bangladesh: access to the Internet and computer/mobile devices, amount of education of its citizens, role of the government and the community, the skills of the teachers, and quality and quantity of the information available. -
Barbara Wootton: Democracy and Federalism in the 1940S
City Research Online City, University of London Institutional Repository Citation: Rosenboim, O. (2014). Barbara Wootton, Friedrich Hayek and the debate on democratic federalism in the 1940s. International History Review, 36(5), pp. 894-918. doi: 10.1080/07075332.2013.871320 This is the accepted version of the paper. This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/18396/ Link to published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2013.871320 Copyright: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of London available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the author(s) and/or copyright holders. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to. Reuse: Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. City Research Online: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/ [email protected] Socialism and democracy: Barbara Wootton's international thought in the 1940s Or Rosenboim Queens’ College University of Cambridge 2013 [email protected] 1 Abstract In the 1940s many internationalists thought the Second World War created a unique opportunity to establish a new world order to promote peace as well as social welfare. By thinking globally, British internationalists wanted to challenge earlier social theory, and to offer novel solutions to social and economic problems that according to them could not be solved domestically. -
25 Universities with Global Studies Programs Or Programs of Similar
25 UNIVERSITIES WITH GLOBAL STUDIES PROGRAMS OR PROGRAMS OF SIMILAR INTEREST *This list is not meant to be extensive but to provide you with a starting point when exploring your post-secondary options. What is a Global Studies Major? According to the The College Board: “Global studies majors are “global thinkers” in every sense. Drawing from fields as different as geography, music, political science, and ecology, they look at the connections between nations and peoples and the trends that shape our lives. And global studies majors don’t just think on a large scale. They may study how something like climate change can affect hundreds of nations, but they also consider its effects on their own backyard.” Potential Career Paths: Foreign Service/State Department; International business, including working for a domestic American corporation in their international operations, or working for a corporation abroad; Entrepreneurialism; International law; International development and sustainable development; International non-profit work or activism on environment, human rights, social justice, etc.; Journalism and other communications media; Education, especially teaching and administration at the high school level and above. Click here to see more about what you can do with a Global Studies Degree 1. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY The International and Global Studies (IGS) Program is an interdisciplinary program that provides students with an opportunity to understand the complex processes of globalization that have so profoundly affected politics, economics, culture, society, the environment and many other facets of our lives. 2. BROWN UNIVERSITY: WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES The Watson Institute is a community of scholars whose work aims to help us understand and address the world's great challenges, such as globalization, economic uncertainty, security threats, environmental degradation, and poverty. -
The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness? Stefan Ambec*, Mark A
2 The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness? Stefan Ambec*, Mark A. Coheny, Stewart Elgiez, and Paul Lanoie§ Introduction Some twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter challenged the conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business by arguing that well-designed regulation could actually increase competitiveness: “Strict environmental regulations do not inevitably hinder competitive advantage against rivals; indeed, they often enhance it” (Porter 1991, 168). Until that time, the traditional view of environmental regulation, held by virtually all economists, was that requiring firms to reduce an externality like pollution necessarily restricted their options and thus by definition reduced their profits. After all, if profitable opportunities existed to reduce pollution, profit-maximizing firms would already be taking advantage of them. Over the past twenty years, much has been written about what has since become known simply as the Porter Hypothesis. Yet even today, we continue to find conflicting evidence concerning the Porter Hypothesis, alternative theories that might explain the Porter Hypothesis, and oftentimes a misunderstanding of what it does and does not say. This article reviews the key theoretical foundations and empirical evidence to date concern- ing the Porter Hypothesis and identifies research challenges and opportunities concerning the links between environmental regulation, innovation, and competitiveness. Such a careful exam- ination of both the theory and the empirical evidence can yield some useful insights for the *Senior researcher, Toulouse School of Economics (INRA-LERNA), and visiting professor, University of Gothenburg; e-mail: [email protected]. yProfessor of management and law, Vanderbilt University, and university professor, Resources for the Future; e-mail: [email protected]. -
School of Global Studies SGS 394 Global Environmental Conflict Line # 76125 T Th 4:30-5:45 EDB 212
School of Global Studies SGS 394 Global Environmental Conflict Line # 76125 T Th 4:30-5:45 EDB 212 *Revised final syllabus Instructor: TA: Dr. Pamela McElwee Joshua Sierra Assistant Professor, [email protected] School of Politics and Global Studies Coor Hall 6690 TA office hours: [email protected] By email appt. Office Hours: Tues 12:30-2:30 pm Other times by email appt. Course Description While it may appear that globalization has fomented new environmental conflicts, given increasing international concerns about such issues as ‘water wars’ and the consequences of climate change among others, in fact discussions about conflicts over environmental resources between individuals and groups, both within and between states, are long-standing. This course will address theoretical and case-study oriented material on the nature of environmental conflicts and proposed solutions. Discussion will cover such topics as Neo-Malthusian perspectives on resource use, Neo-Marxist approaches to distribution and conflict, environmental security approaches to environmental stress and violence, and environmental justice issues. Requirements: There are no prerequisites for this course, but students are encouraged to have taken at least one environmentally-related class before, as the material to be covered assumes some basic familiarity with environmental issues. Students also must be sophomores or above, or have the instructor’s permission to enroll, as this is an upper division SGS course. This is a writing and reading intensive class, so you will need to be prepared for a large amount of homework, and be disciplined in attendance. Requirements & Grading This course will serve as a vehicle to emphasize reading skills, discussion skills, and research skills of the student. -
The Panda's Pawprint
Global Economic Governance Initiative GEGI WORKING PAPER 08 •10/2016 GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE The Panda’s Pawprint: The environmental impact of the China-led re-primarization in Latin America and the Caribbean REBECCA RAY China’s meteoric rise as an economic partner for LAC economies is well documented: it is now the largest export market for South American goods and the second-largest market for LAC overall. But China’s demand for LAC exports and Chinese investments in LAC are concentrated in primary commodities, driving LAC away from industrial production and spurring “re-primarization.” This creates a conundrum for environmental economists, as the traditional “pollution haven” literature cannot adequately describe a situation of south-south investment relationships. In contrast “environmental Kuznets curve” literature anticipates that for middle-income countries such as those in Latin America, primary production is Rebecca Ray is a pre-doctoral environmentally less sensitive than manufacturing; these hypotheses suggest that re-primarization fellow at GEGI, and a PhD would be environmentally beneficial for LAC. This paper tests these hypotheses against the evidence student in economics at the from the last ten years of LAC exports. It finds that primary production is more environmentally intensive University of Massachusetts than manufacturing in LAC, measured through net greenhouse gas emissions and water footprints. – Amherst. She holds an MA in International Development at the George Washington University. Prior to joining GEGI, she worked as a research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. She has conducted academic fieldwork in Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Canada. The Center for Finance, Law and Policy, The Frederick S. -
Global Studies Learning Objectives
Global Studies Learning Objectives Global Studies is a new interdisciplinary major at USC. It is an emerging field that brings together anthropology, political science, international relations, history, foreign languages and religion. It offers students the opportunity to learn about the world from a variety of academic perspectives and to make connections among them, with the goal of producing active global citizens, who understand the links between human rights, human duties, and cosmopolitan beliefs. They study the complex connections between the local and the global to understand the webs that link local actions (such as consumption patterns) to international outcomes (such as resource-based conflicts). The following learning objectives have been established for majors in the Global Studies (BA): Understand the various methods of research used to study cultural and social differences Earn the research skills necessary to conduct a course of study across geographical, ethnic, or ideolgoical boundaries Gain extensive firsthand experience of the global issues of a city, country, or region from studying abroad University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences 3454 Trousdale Parkway, CAS 200 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0153 US Be able to conduct an independent project in a selcted field of interest Ability to demonstrate the complexity of political, religoius, and economic considerations in the comparative study of globalization Train for careers in government, healthcare, NGOs, climate change, energy policy, law, journalism, and business University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences 3454 Trousdale Parkway, CAS 200 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0153 US . -
The Quest for World Citizenship & Effective Global Governance A
The Quest for World Citizenship & Effective Global Governance A Short History of World Federalism By Daniel Schaubacher, Founding & Board Member of CUNCR www.cuncr.org The Charter of the United Nations Organisation begins with the words: “We, the peoples…”. However, the peoples are not (yet) directly represented; the executive powers or governments of nation states are. A call for reform of the UN, if not democratic legitimation of the world organisation, is increasingly heard in many lands, even though the victor states of World War Two which permanently sit at the helm of the UN Security Council have not yet agreed, in spite of Article 103c of the UN Charter, to call in a UN Reform Conference. In the thirties and during World War Two, several politicians and statesmen as well intellectuals proposed true community if not federalist measures for world governance, while condemning nationalism of Nazi Germany, Italian fascism and Japanese military imperialism. Campaign for World Government is an American organisation which was formed in 1937. In 1938, Clarence Streit proposed in the USA, in a book Union Now ! that a Federation of Democracies be formed. His thesis made a great number of adepts on both sides of the Atlantic and eventually gave birth to two independent organisations in America and in Britain, called Federal Union. The invention of nuclear power caused great fears, given the discernible inefficiency of the UN system to control armaments of mass destruction. After the Second World War, the peoples of Asia and Europe were still greatly suffering of the disastrous consequences of the global conflict. -
Outsourcing: Is the Third Industrial Revolution Really Around the Corner?
Outsourcing: Is the Third Industrial Revolution Really Around the Corner? Arvind Panagariya Columbia University Macro Research Conference 2007 Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies, Tokyo November 13-14, 2007 Outline Introduction Terminology and Definition Jobs Outsourced To-date Samuelson on the Losses from Outsourcing Offshoring: The Next Big Thing? India as an Offshore Source of Skilled Services Concluding Remarks Introduction The Employment Argument for Protection Goods Imports and Job Losses Traditional Services Imports and No Job Losses “Outsourcing” and Job Losses The Gains from Trade Is Outsourcing Different than Traditional Goods and Services Trade? Does it Justify protection? The Phenomenon and Terminology The phenomenon at issue Importing goods previously produced at home? Shift in manufacturing activity from home to abroad to serve home or foreign markets? Importing new goods from abroad? Locating new manufacturing abroad to serve home or foreign markets? Buying services abroad at arm’s length? It is the Buying of Services Abroad at Arm’s Length: WTO Mode 1 Services “One facet of increased services trade is the increased use of offshore outsourcing in which a company relocates labor-intensive service industry functions to another country. For example, a U.S. firm might use a call center in India to handle customer service-related questions. The principal novelty of outsourcing services is the means by which foreign purchases are delivered. Whereas imported goods might arrive by ship, outsourced services are often delivered using telephone lines or the Internet. The basic economic forces behind the transactions are the same, however. When a good or service is produced more cheaply abroad, it makes more sense to import it than to make or provide it domestically.” (Economic Report of the President, 2004, p. -
Constructing Global Civil Society from Below: a Case Study of Learning Global Citizenship in the Save the Narmada Movement, India
Constructing Global Civil Society from Below: A case study of learning global citizenship in the Save the Narmada Movement, India Natasha Shukla Institute of Education, University of London Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 1 Abstract The thesis examines the informal learning of global citizenship in the course of social struggle within grassroots movements, through an ethnographic case study of the Save the Narmada Movement (NBA). The movment, comprising village communities in India, campaigned with the support of international non-governmental organisations to prevent the construction of a World Bank (WB) financed dam. The study arises in response to a perceived marginalisation of grassroots resistances, especially in developing contexts, within empirical accounts of global civil society (GCS), which is conceptualised as a space where 'global citizens' seek to resist and transform the exigencies of economic globalisation. Interrogating the validity of this exclusion, a Gramscian framework is adopted to examine whether, and in what ways grassroots actors are global citizens, engaged in the transformative politics of GCS. Analysis of data emerging from NBA suggests that contestation with political structures at the national (Indian government) and global (WB) level is an important source of learning that leads to the construction of a movement's global citizenship. Through a Gramscian dialectical process of strategic action and reflection, the movement developed a critical awareness of the class character of these institutions, leading NBA to connect its local struggle against the dam to wider struggle against `destructive development and globalisation. This process encouraged a revalorisation of grassroots participants' subjective relationships to the nation-state, leading amongst some, to the rejection of national citizenship in favour of global affiliations. -
The Concept of Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development in the Transition to the Digital Economy
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 105 1st International Scientific and Practical Conference on Digital Economy (ISCDE 2019) The concept of sustainable environmental and economic development in the transition to the digital economy Salamatov A.A. Gnatyshina E.А. Chelyabinsk State University, South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia Chelyabinsk, Russia [email protected] [email protected] Gordeeva D.S. South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia [email protected] Abstract — Introduction. Network economy does not reduce economy does not reduce the flow of economic crimes: the flow of economic crimes: forgery of facsimile signatures, forgery of facsimile signatures, unauthorized intrusion into unauthorized intrusion into state secrets, etc. use the Internet state secrets, etc. use the Internet along with law enforcement along with law enforcement terrorists. It is safe to say that each terrorists. It is safe to say that each positive aspect of the positive aspect of the digitalization of society is opposed by the digitalization of society is opposed by the corresponding corresponding negative. In most developed countries, a system of negative. In most developed countries, a system of measures measures to minimize the "digital inequality" of property to minimize the "digital inequality" of property differentiation differentiation is being developed to strengthen stability and good is being developed to strengthen stability and good governance. governance.