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Royal University of Phnom Penh
Institute of Foreign Languages
Department of English
Subject : IG401
Chapter 6
The Ideological Dimension of Globalization
Lecturer : Edgardo Gonzaga
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Group members
 BELL Socheata
 NON SokChamroeun
 PENG Veasna
 VA Sotheavy
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Content
I. Key Terms
II. Selling Globalization
- Claim 1
- Claim 2
- Claim 3
- Claim 4
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I. Key terms
Before exploring the ideological dimension of
globalization, we should make an important
analytical distinction between globalization, and
globalism and ideology.
 Globalization: social processes of intensifying
global interdependence that have been described
by various commentators in different, often
contradictory ways.
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 Globalism: an ideology that endows the concept
of globalization with neoliberal values and
meaning.
 Ideology: a system of widely share ideas,
patterned beliefs, guiding norms and values, and
ideals accepted as truth by a particular group of
people.
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II. Selling globalization
 National poll on globalization conducted
in 200 shows:
-65% of respondents: globalization is good for both
consumers and business both in the US and the
rest of the world.
-Other respondents: they afraid that globalization
might lead to a significant loss of American jobs.
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Claim 1: Globalization is about the liberalization
and global integration of markets
 Neoliberals is anchored in the idea of the self
regulating market
 Neoliberals seek to cultivate
 Liberalization and integration of global market as
natural phenomena
 Globalist message of liberalizing and integration
market
 The successful liberalization of market
 Globalists have been successful
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Claim 2: Globalization is inevitable and irreversible
 Globalists rely on a similar monocausal,
economistic, narrative of historical
 Globalization is irreversible
 Globalization is inevitable
 Globalization is inevitable and inexorable and it is
accelerating
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Claim 3: No body is in charge of globalization
People are in charge of globalization; markets
and technology are
 Paul Krugman, US economist
 Thamas Friendman, New York Times
correspondent and award-winning author
 Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs
International
 Example: US
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Claim 4: Globalization benefits everyone
Globalization should be considered a good or a bad thing?
 Globalist arguments on globalization
Market liberalization:
-rising global living standards
-economic efficiency
-individual freedom
-barrier of trade is narrowed down
-unprecedented technological progress
Ex1: world trade:
=> expanding overall global economic output => a wave of
productivity=> efficiency and creating million of jobs.
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Claim 4 (cont)
 Who exactly is “We”?
When market goes too far in dominating society and
political out come=> the opportunities and rewards of
globalization are spread unequally (gap between rich and
poor people).
Ex: World bank report: income disparities between nations
are widening at a quicker pace than ever before.
World bank, World development report 1999/2000
+ bottom 25% of humankind live on less than $140 a
year(poor)
+ world’s richest people doubled net worth to more than
$1trillion between 1994 and 1998.
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Claim 4 (cont)
+ CEO employed in large corporation was 416times higher
than average worker.
+ The financial wealth of the top 1% of American
households exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom
95%of households.
Neoliberal course was successfully preserved by :
- Lobbyist in political action committees in US
- The low US unemployment rate is masked by hard
working condition of poor people.
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Claim 4 (cont)
Group of scientists in United States
+The other consequences of economic globalization
- Threat to preventing the spread of parasitic diseases in
sub Saharan Africa ( low affordability of developing
c0untry to pay for medicine)
- + The result of being deviated from the official
portrayal of globalization as benefiting everyone
- -Resignation
- ending of contract
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Claim 5: Globalization furthers the spread of
democracy in the world
is rooted in the neoliberal assertion
 Voting
 Francis Fukuyama, Johns Hopkins University
 Hillary Rodham Clintion, US Senator from New York
 Thomas Friedman, New York Times correspondent and
award-winning author
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