Geo 255 Tue Key focus: container Tension between mobility and fixity Containers 20 feet or 40 feet long : standard size for easy movement standard size ensures that containers are “intermodal” switch them among ship‚ road. Move via shipping‚ rail‚ and road networks Bulit Over 8000 container ships 12.5 million TEUs (20 foot equivalent units) Annual global trade estimated at 150 million TEUs “Invented” in 1956 The largest container ships 1995-1998 4‚000 to 8000 TEUs
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process of state integration and worldviews resulted from increased human connectivity through increases in communications and trade technology. However Globalisation is contentious ideology. Views on globalisation fall into three main categories‚ Hyperglobalist‚ sceptics and Transformationalist. These three views vary heavily on the extent and even existence of Globalisation but for the purposes f this essay I will be assuming a Transformationalist perspective. The main characteristics of Transformationalism
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Critical Review Global Shift: Mapping The Changing Contours of the World Economy When the term “Globalization” is discussed‚ most academics‚ scholars‚ professionals and intellectuals attempt to define and interpret it in a summarized fashion. My main concern with this approach is that one cannot and should not define a process that altered decades of history and continues to‚ in less than 30 words. Global Shift is a book with remarkable insight. Peter Dicken rather than attempting to define
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There is no doubt that globalization has had an impact on the nation state. However‚ it has been exaggerated that the state has been weakened and the national control over the economy has been undermined due to the effects of globalization. There are three different perspectives that respond to globalization; hyper-globalists‚ skeptics and transformationalists. All of these perspectives will be discussed throughout the essay‚ followed by a conclusive decision as to whether globalization
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Title: Globalization and ICT Name: School Affiliation: Date: Introduction In the modern world‚ the place of Information Communication and Technology is of great importance. ICT is an integrated system of communication and technology. ICT allows for the handling of information and brings together the various forms of communication. ICT encompasses a number of technologies that include capturing technologies processing technologies‚ communication technologies and display technologies (Hamelink
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Critique of Technology as the Primary Force behind Globalization [Course Code‚ Name‚ Section] [Name of Instructor] [Name of Student] [Date] Critique of Technology as the Primary Force behind Globalization Introduction The paper contains a critique of technology as the primary driver of globalization. Globalization is referred to the process of global integration that arises from interchange of global views‚ ideas‚ products‚ and culture’s different aspects. Technology is considered to be one of
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interconnectness. Distinctions are usualy made between economic‚ cultural and political forms of globalization.Over recent years Liberals have tended to agree with the statement whereas the Realists disagree with the statement. Liberals‚ or hyperglobalists as they are sometimes referred to believe that‚ globalization assures efficiency and that it increases welfare throughout the world. They also believe that the concept of globalization is unavoidable and should therefore be embraced instead of
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instead regional and imperial (Alexander‚ ibid: 95). Secondly‚ the transformalists have three groups of defining globalisation; the first group refer it with the alteration in the political positions what Held & et al (1999) have called the hyperglobalists (Ohmae‚ 1995)‚ this also emphasis on the transformation of economics with the disappearance of the national state as the natural consequence of the process through networks of production‚ trade and finance (Held et al. 1999: 3). On the other
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Chapter 1 Globalization and global politics ANTHONY MCGREW Chap01.indd 14 10/30/07 12:50:52 PM • Introduction ········································································································································· 16 • Making sense of globalization·········································································································· 16 • Conceptualizing globalization ··········································································································
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Drawing on debates in leisure and sport theory‚ using current sport‚ leisure and culture examples‚ critically discuss the impact of Globalisation and Post Modernity. Modern day football is one of the most popular pastimes across the globe. Billions of people watch and play it every year and can be a very important part of peoples lives. Fans can spend hundreds of pounds a year on travelling across countries and continents to watch their team play. Football is one of the most powerful cultures
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