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  • 12:0216. 1. 2025, 12:02 rozdíl historie +1 008 N Scenarios for possible futures založena nová stránka s textem „#The first scenario, titled The Davos World, illustrates how the robust economic growth headed by China and India might reshape the nature of globalisation. Both new global players could give the development rather ‘non-western’ features while transforming the political arena. #The Pax Americana scenario assesses conditions under which the United States could keep its global dominance in a radically changing world, and participate in setting up a…“ aktuální
  • 12:0216. 1. 2025, 12:02 rozdíl historie +3 518 N Development trends založena nová stránka s textem „#New global players set the first trend. They include India, China and other countries that are going to change the geopolitical scene, like the newly united and rising Germany did in the 19 century, or the United States did in the 20th. #Globalisation is another trend. It is an all-encompassing force and will have a fundamental influence on all other essential trends of the world until 2020. The world economy will probably continue to grow: it will h…“ aktuální
  • 12:0116. 1. 2025, 12:01 rozdíl historie +3 527 N The logic and dimensions of globalisation založena nová stránka s textem „When Rischard describes the basic dynamising forces of globalisation (demographic growth, new economics), he is silent about what is behind these forces. Some other sociologists try to explain it; the basic difference among them lies in whether they speak of a single ‘logic’ or of multi-causal ‘logics.’ The difference expresses the Weberian controversy between economic domination and pluralism in economic-social-cultural interpretations. The…“ aktuální
  • 12:0116. 1. 2025, 12:01 rozdíl historie +3 646 N An Overview of the Globalisation Problems založena nová stránka s textem „*The uncontrolled transfer of financial capital, several times exceeding the volume of tradable goods. That poses a risk of economic collapses, several of which have already occurred (Mexico, Southeast and East Asia, Brazil, Argentina). *The inequity in access to overall social growth is increasing. Benefits go only to those who have better preconditions for growth, especially thanks to the more flexible attitude of their governments, which are capab…“ aktuální
  • 12:0016. 1. 2025, 12:00 rozdíl historie +3 629 N Conventionally considered negative aspects of globalisation založena nová stránka s textem „*The uncontrolled transfer of financial capital, several times exceeding the volume of tradable goods. That poses a risk of economic collapses, several of which have already occurred (Mexico, Southeast and East Asia, Brazil, Argentina). *The inequity in access to overall social growth is increasing. Benefits go only to those who have better preconditions for growth, especially thanks to the more flexible attitude of their governments, which are capab…“ aktuální
  • 12:0016. 1. 2025, 12:00 rozdíl historie +1 369 N Conventionally considered positive aspects of globalisation založena nová stránka s textem „*Growing volume of globally tradable goods. * Speed and complexity of direct investment flows. * Economic growth of originally developing countries (especially South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong), which nowadays have highly developed economies. Globalisation encourages development of other countries, which joined globalisation processes later on and have begun to become globally important players (China, Brazil, India), but also countries of…“ aktuální
  • 11:5916. 1. 2025, 11:59 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Globalisation Glossary založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:5916. 1. 2025, 11:59 rozdíl historie +3 976 N Differing views založena nová stránka s textem „The relations between globalisation and the changing importance and functionality of the national state are very often non-transparent. The pace of such changes has accelerated particularly after the bipolar world collapsed, but their roots are often deeper and their causality more complex than would correspond to the state vs. globalisation relation. Bauman sees the root of the changes in the network of political relationships in the changing meanin…“ aktuální značka: přepnuto z Vizuálního editoru
  • 11:5816. 1. 2025, 11:58 rozdíl historie −1 m The nature of globalisation. Global actors and driving forces Prospectsd aktuální značka: editace z Vizuálního editoru
  • 11:5816. 1. 2025, 11:58 rozdíl historie +6 359 N The nature of globalisation. Global actors and driving forces založena nová stránka s textem „__NOTOC__ Václav Mezřický == What is globalisation?== Globalisation is a spontaneous, uncontrolled process of ever more intense integration of the world’s countries in a single economic system. This is probably the only criterion agreed upon by theoreticians who deal with the phenomenon without giving up the option to let the term encompass entire scores of other social, political, cultural, socio-psychological, and other relations associated wit…“
  • 11:5716. 1. 2025, 11:57 rozdíl historie +296 N Effectiveness of global institutions (IWF and World Bank) as global policy makers založena nová stránka s textem „# The nature of globalisation. Global actors and driving forces # The economic dimension of globalisation # Capital Markets and ‘Financialisation’ of the World # Political solutions: Global Government and Global Governance == Bibliography == Category:Global institutions aktuální
  • 11:5616. 1. 2025, 11:56 rozdíl historie +7 327 N The United Nations and the necessity of global governance založena nová stránka s textem „=The United Nations and the necessity of reformation= ==Introduction and why united acting is needed== In a time of globalization states are more and more connected, national governments have fewer and fewer influence on overcoming serious crisis. When looking at the main problems of the 21st century one notices that there are more and more crisis that have an impact on many states simultaneously and not just on one single country. The most recent…“ aktuální
  • 11:5516. 1. 2025, 11:55 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Social dimension of globalisation založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:5416. 1. 2025, 11:54 rozdíl historie +1 106 N Psychological Barriers to Solving Global Problems založena nová stránka s textem „The book ''Earth in the Balance'' by former US Vice President Al Gore is one of the best-qualified and most thorough analyses: ‘If a solution to a problem we face obviously calls for more effort and more sacrifice than we are even willing to imagine, or if even the greatest efforts by an individual were not enough to avert a tragedy, we tend to feel a temptation to disrupt the connection between the stimulus and the moral response.’ (p. 31) (trans…“ aktuální
  • 11:5416. 1. 2025, 11:54 rozdíl historie +12 348 N The Corporations’ Response to Globalisation Problems založena nová stránka s textem „Analogously to the central dissension of globalisation, a barrier divides the advocates of optionality (competition) from those of bindingness (regulation) in the dispute over '''corporate responsibility'''. Analogously to their positions, the two schools typically borrow the fear of a greater role of the government (pro-globalisation) or of the business sphere (alter-globalisation). Yet there are ever more professionals who strive to fathom the probl…“ aktuální
  • 11:5316. 1. 2025, 11:53 rozdíl historie +2 161 N Responsibility of governance and media-businesses for persuasion of consumption založena nová stránka s textem „== Who might have the power to reach a global change of view on sustainable globalisation? == * ''Influence of global institutions and global actors'' ** Political solutions: Global Government and Global Governance ** Globalisation and civic society * ''The Responsibility of consumption - a problem of ethics?'' **Global Regulation, Global Business Ethics, and Global Common Good **[[The Corporations’ Response to Globalisation Problems]…“ aktuální
  • 11:5116. 1. 2025, 11:51 rozdíl historie +12 712 N Adequacy of poverty reduction policy of IMF and World Bank in the agricultural sector in Africa založena nová stránka s textem „== Focus on a particular aspect: == '''Research Question:''' Does the liberalization policy of IMF and World Bank help developing countries in poverty reduction? – Using the example of agricultural liberalization in Africa - '''Thesis Statement:''' Developing countries suffer from instable prices, high marketing costs, and lack of fertilizer subsidies or low world market prices for cash crops in the agricultural sector. World Bank and Internat…“ aktuální
  • 11:5016. 1. 2025, 11:50 rozdíl historie 0 m Kategorie:Water Bez shrnutí editace aktuální
  • 11:5016. 1. 2025, 11:50 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Water založena nová stránka s textem „Catagory:Globalisation
  • 11:4916. 1. 2025, 11:49 rozdíl historie +14 712 N The New Economic Market: Water založena nová stránka s textem „== Introduction == Globalisation contains a lot of different fields. One part is the process of word wide interaction and linking up between people, companies and nations. The interaction increases especially in the field of politic, economy, culture, environment and communication. This interaction effects individuals in the same way as institutions or societies. I will focus especially on the supply of water. The secure supply of portable water of h…“ aktuální
  • 11:4816. 1. 2025, 11:48 rozdíl historie +23 818 N Globalisation and gender založena nová stránka s textem „== Summary == A survey of the globalization process, gender scholarships and theorists who study this phenomena and its effect on gender system is presented in this paper. Authors who deal with economic globalization and women's productive work argue that markets are gendered and the multinational corporations derive benefits from low paid women's work. In addition, a global feminized care work, migration, and political and cultural aspects of global…“ aktuální
  • 11:4716. 1. 2025, 11:47 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Gender založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:4716. 1. 2025, 11:47 rozdíl historie +5 047 N Gender and the global labour market založena nová stránka s textem „=='''Gender and the global labour market'''== '''Bojana Ziberna, University of Maribor''' In this article we look briefly at the impact of globalization in terms of opportunities and challenges faced by women who are entering global labour markets in great numbers. ===What is gender?=== The term gender refers to the expected social position of men and women, meaning the ascribed roles and expected behaviour of the individual that is considered to…“ aktuální
  • 11:4616. 1. 2025, 11:46 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Food založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:4616. 1. 2025, 11:46 rozdíl historie +3 789 N Food shortage - a global problem? založena nová stránka s textem „== Introductory == Societies all over the globe are faced with the effects of a process referred to as Globalization. This process amplifies the worldwide interconnectedness. Thus former boundaries disappear and local actions and developments easily can have consequences for other regions and even the whole world. The world literally gets smaller. Nature, Nations, societies and individuals are affected by globalization, but the allocation of its ben…“ aktuální
  • 11:4516. 1. 2025, 11:45 rozdíl historie +14 611 N Solar Energy založena nová stránka s textem „== Introduction == There are a lot of different ways to create energy, but because of the limited capabilities, it is important to use sustainable energy. Our earth gets more and more abuse, because of the globalisation, flying by plane, using cars etc., on the other hand the globalisation can help us to get new systems for using new ways for getting energy and to get all the materials for it. But the global warming and the accumulation of greenhouse…“ aktuální
  • 11:4416. 1. 2025, 11:44 rozdíl historie +15 397 N Energy in relation to globalisation and sustainable development založena nová stránka s textem „== Focus on a particular aspect: == * Research Question: What are the possible negative effects of the use of renewable energy sources (RES) on the energy security (security of energy supply) and how can they be prevented/minimalized? * Thesis Statement: In spite of being largely intertwined and codependent, use of RES and energy security contradict each other in certain cases (e.g. changeability of wind power). However, these negatives can…“ aktuální
  • 11:4416. 1. 2025, 11:44 rozdíl historie +5 954 N Comparison of Czech and Austrian approaches to the production of electricity from renewable resources založena nová stránka s textem „==Comparison of Czech and Austrian approaches to the production of electricity from renewable resources== In the near future, people will face the challenge of an emerging energy crisis and will have to solve this problem. We will deplete the resources of fossil fuels, but our energy consumption will be increasing. There are two options how to deal with this situation after that. We can use either nuclear energy or energy from renewable resources. In…“ aktuální
  • 11:4316. 1. 2025, 11:43 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Energy založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:4216. 1. 2025, 11:42 rozdíl historie +13 097 N Challenges to Energy Security - Is a demonization of conventional energy production under current global trends beneficial? založena nová stránka s textem „==Introduction== Globalisation is the worldwide disappearance of ideological, political, scientifical and technological boundaries. It is not an entirely new event but a historical process, which however has gained enormous momentum in the last decades. Within this process peoples and nations come closer together, enabling a free flow of capital and economic exchange. Billions of people around the world can profit from this with the chances of improve…“ aktuální
  • 11:4016. 1. 2025, 11:40 rozdíl historie +2 893 N The Poverty Issue, Debt Cancellation, and Alternative Visions for Globalisation založena nová stránka s textem „==Reforming Globalisation== The economic dimension of globalisation also comprises analyses and assessment of revenue and wealth distribution throughout the global economy, including the ‘underside of wealth’, i.e. poverty. Recently, two of the most influential economists – apart from Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize winning Indian professor, who has been dealing with poverty for a long time – have expressed their views on this aspect of glo…“ aktuální
  • 11:3916. 1. 2025, 11:39 rozdíl historie +4 481 N Capital Markets and ‘Financialisation’ of the World založena nová stránka s textem „===Global Investment Policy=== ‘Financialisation’ of the world is one of the attributes of the economic aspect of globalisation: extension of monetary economics in breadth and depth (breaching the former ethical limits to the market). The financial sector of the global economy is growing faster than the ‘real economy.’ Whereas international aid from the developed countries to the ‘third world’ countries has decreased over the last two…“ aktuální
  • 11:3916. 1. 2025, 11:39 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Trade založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:3816. 1. 2025, 11:38 rozdíl historie +3 517 N Global Markets in Products, Semi-Products, Services and Technologies založena nová stránka s textem „==The Threat of Protectionism== As far as international institutions influencing global trade are concerned, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), seated in Geneva, is among the most important. It has replaced the former GATT, but its essence has stayed identical: its global regulation framework stands or falls on multilateral agreements with states (and integrating blocs). The negotiations about customs duties and technical conditions of trade are dif…“ aktuální
  • 11:3816. 1. 2025, 11:38 rozdíl historie +5 054 N The economic dimension of globalisation založena nová stránka s textem „__NOTOC__ Lubomír Mlčoch == Characteristics of global economy == The international trade across national, and even continental, borders in Antiquity, the discovery of the ‘New World’, and the colonial invasions of European powers in modern times resulting in the two World Wars of the 20th century, were the preceding stages in the evolution of the capitalist market economy. Globalisation is characteristic of the ‘global age’ (Radim Palouš)…“ aktuální
  • 11:3716. 1. 2025, 11:37 rozdíl historie +6 009 N National Post-Sovereignty – Domination of Multinational Corporations založena nová stránka s textem „==Characteristics of the Present-day State== The reduced sovereignty of the national state world-wide, including even the most powerful, is considered one of the main characteristics of globalisation in political-economical terms. From the end of the 18th century onward, the conventional sovereign territorial state, or ''‘national state’'' was practically the universal framework for development and progress. The distension of the State proceeded…“ aktuální
  • 11:3616. 1. 2025, 11:36 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Migration založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:3616. 1. 2025, 11:36 rozdíl historie +3 606 N Labour Markets, Migration, Marginalisation and Exclusion, Brain Drain založena nová stránka s textem „Global labour markets are affected by several crucial factors: *the disproportionate density of populations: overpopulated countries such as India and China are settled 20 times more densely than the USA, and 40 times more than Canada; *the demographic implosion practically all over the Euro-American civilisation (and a simultaneous explosion on the other continents); *the increased chances for migration on the global scale. == Knowledge as the Ba…“ aktuální
  • 11:3516. 1. 2025, 11:35 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Global institutions založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:3516. 1. 2025, 11:35 rozdíl historie +3 129 N Distribution of Labour and Capital in a Globalised World založena nová stránka s textem „Let us now go back to Dembinski’s calculations concerning ‘very big enterprises’ as it seems that it is usually private corporations who open up the path toward future development rather than bureaucrats in poorly functioning and corrupted public and state administrations in developing countries. The fact is that those 800 biggest enterprises also wield a totally dominant position regarding global flows in foreign direct investment going fr…“ aktuální
  • 11:3416. 1. 2025, 11:34 rozdíl historie +26 N Kategorie:Economy založena nová stránka s textem „Category:Globalisation aktuální
  • 11:3216. 1. 2025, 11:32 rozdíl historie +3 984 N Summary založena nová stránka s textem „Global civil society is defined negatively, described as a sphere outside the state and the market, and related its expansion to the development of the network society, global political economy, and the value transformation of the modern-day Western society, characterised by an inclination toward post-materialism. Functional definition of global civil society is related to the other pillars of the global system, that is, the state and the market, and…“ aktuální
  • 11:3216. 1. 2025, 11:32 rozdíl historie +1 200 N Other disputes založena nová stránka s textem „==Access to markets and global growth== Numerous NGOs, development agencies and think tanks believe that elimination of trade barriers imposed by developed countries and improved access of developing countries to Western markets is the way out of poverty and toward prosperity. Radicals, including members of the International Forum on Globalisation, warn against the threat of ‘mono-culture’ of exports and the growing dependence on it, and against…“ aktuální
  • 11:3116. 1. 2025, 11:31 rozdíl historie +1 409 N Points of Agreement: Problems, Players, Rules založena nová stránka s textem „What most civic society organisations agree on is the existence of problems, the key players, and the unfair rules of international economics and trade. There is accord throughout the civic society on that the Bretton Woods institutions, the WTO, multinational corporations and the elites in developed countries are the major culprits of the present state of affairs. The unsustainable nature of global capitalism, indebtedness of developing countries ma…“ aktuální
  • 11:3016. 1. 2025, 11:30 rozdíl historie +10 120 N Globalisation and civic society založena nová stránka s textem „__NOTOC__ == The global civil society phenomenon == The emergence of civil society in its various forms, which has been seen since the early 1990s, is a fascinating component of the change the world is undergoing today, somewhat impractically called globalisation. Civic society has become an important player in global processes, their conscience, critical reflection, the voice of the excluded, and a source of alternatives. As an autonomous network of…“ aktuální
  • 11:3016. 1. 2025, 11:30 rozdíl historie +3 105 N Global political economy založena nová stránka s textem „==Value Transformation of the Present-day Society== Another phenomenon that has undoubtedly contributed to the development of global civil society is the association of two seemingly unrelated issues: global political economy and its impacts on a number of countries, mostly developing ones; and the value transformation among the public in the developed countries, titled by sociologist Ronald Inglehart the inclination toward post-materialism (Inglehar…“ aktuální
  • 11:2916. 1. 2025, 11:29 rozdíl historie +2 131 N Discords and Conflicts: What Kind of Globalisation? založena nová stránka s textem „Civil society is characterised by diversity rather than likeness. There are a number of discords, and even open conflicts, within CS. '''Two paradigms''' can be extracted from the diverse range of arguments and opinions, which we call the '''reformist''' and the radical. Martin Khor of the Third World Network (Cavanagh, 2004, p. 30) has provided a summary of their nature: The first paradigm involves the choice to work in the system of globalisation,…“ aktuální
  • 11:2916. 1. 2025, 11:29 rozdíl historie +3 606 N Civic society versus the State and the Market založena nová stránka s textem „It is important to bear in mind that CS is a richly variegated conglomerate of different groups, interest, and ideologies. Its attitudes to the market and state, as well as other pillars of the global system, are therefore as varied as its methods. What many of the civil society organisations have in common, though, is the very sophisticated use of the so-called ‘soft force’. Whereas the state has at its disposal numerous power instruments rangin…“ aktuální
  • 11:2816. 1. 2025, 11:28 rozdíl historie +3 455 N Civic society strategies založena nová stránka s textem „'''Three general types''' of attitudes that civic society organisations assume toward governmental and private players are opposition, co-operation, and co-option. '''Opposition''' is a clear ‘no’; absence of trust in the possibility to work together to remedy the existing state under existing conditions. At the global level, for instance, activists have fought over their position on the existence and the future of the Bretton Woods institutions…“ aktuální
  • 11:2716. 1. 2025, 11:27 rozdíl historie +2 640 N Civic society in the Network Society založena nová stránka s textem „The growth in the number of players transcending national borders goes hand in hand with the decline of the state and territorially approached politics of national interests and political parties. According to some authors (Castells, 1997; 2000; Keck & Sikking, 1998), a new type of societal organisation is emerging: the so-called network society, in which the attributes of the preceding system, i.e., hierarchy and territory, give way to mobility and i…“ aktuální