GLOBALIZATION

The ISA Grants Committee has allocated $4,000 for this workshop. The original request was for $8,000. A decision has been made to proceed with plans for a much scaled-down project with a narrower focus, i.e. on Globalization and Democracy. Henry Teune has agreed to take primary responsibility for planning the event, in consultation with Fred Riggs. He can be reached at: Teune The basic goals of the original plan, as described below, will be followed with necessary modifictions.

ABSTRACT

Globalization has already caused a wide range of far-reaching changes to occur throughout the world, in every country and at every level. Although we think of recent dramatic technological and political developments that have tremendously accelerated the process of globalization, it has actually been going on for a very long time and needs to be understood in historical perspective. Although its economic aspects with a focus on world markets, currencies, investments and industrialization have attracted the most attention, its implications for the state and international relations, for problems of war and peace, of endemic conflict, ethnic movements, criminal violence, environmental impacts, educational and cultural aspects, all cry out for attention. This workshop will direct attention to the cultural, socio-political and economic aspects of this phenomenon in its contemporary, historical, evolutionary, ecological, and conceptual dimensions.

NARRATIVE

Globalization is a continuing, long term process that has escalated in recent years with far- reaching effects at all levels: individual, local, state, regional, civilizational. The preliminary program for the ISA conference in Washington, DC, February 1999, contains 40 headings and titles in which the word globalization appears. At least seven different ISA sections will sponsor the panels in which this term is used, plus at least two theme sessions. For details see the ISA preliminary program. This remarkable fact provides evidence of the great interest of ISA members in this transformative contemporary phenomenon which promises both tragic and liberating consequences during the coming century -- not to say the next millennium. (Some thoughts about the implications of globalization for the social sciences and area studies can be found in a paper by Riggs called Beyond area studies) All interested ISA members will be invited to attend the workshop which will include some analysis of the various concepts represented by this word. Hopefully, by this means it will become possible to enhance linkages and promote more coherent discourse among the many ISA members who are speaking about globalization.

The core of the workshop will take the form of a set of publishable papers anchored in a continuing internet-based discourse that has already started in the context of the CISS-sponsored panel on GLOBALIZATION to be held during the ISC conference in Washington, DC, February 1999. Details about plans for that meeting can be found at:Global Panel.

Among the papers to be presented, one will deal with the concepts of globalization that have been developed in the context of a project of the International Sociological Association. Details about that project and its interim conclusions may be found at Concepts of Globalization.

A questionnaire to be distributed among interested ISA members will further enhance and develop this project, leading to the production of a glossary on the WWW that can be used by all members to help them link their own concepts and usages to those of others working on related problems.

Each participant will nominate a student participant who will present a paper not written by h/her sponsor. By this means, students will be given a significant and conspicuous role in the workshop, leading to their significant involvement in ISA activities. Each workshop paper will also be presented during a conference panel -- subject to acceptance by the ISA Program Committee.

During August 1999 a conference on globalization, sponsored by CISS -- the ISA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies Section -- will be held in Paris. For details, go to ISA/CISS . The results of the Globalization panel in Washington will be reported at the Paris meeting where, we expect, further refinements can be made that will, in turn, contribute to the quality of the workshop to be offered at the Los Angeles ISA conference in March 2000. A quick overview of some Web Sites offering further information about research on globalization can be found at: Web Pages

Suggested Themes.  

The workshop will be relevant to the basic concerns of all the ISA sections that are sponsoring panels at the Washington Conference that relate to Globalization. These include International Political Economy, Global Development, International Organization, Peace Studies, Feminist Theory, International Ethics, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration, and of course, CISS which, as its name indicates, has a focal interest in interdisciplinary studies. To be more specific, these include the following themes:

• Historical and Geographic setting: to see contemporary globalization in a long-term historical perspective and to locate it spatially as it has evolved from regional and continental to planetary contexts
• Economic dimensions: to focus on the non-economic implications of global capitalism, monetary and credit flows, and the expansion of multi-national corporations and industrial estates
• Political dimensions: how interconnectedness meshes with ideas about states, a world government, world-systems, and regional, metropolitan, and local dimensions of a global network
• Cultural dimensions: thinking about music, art, literature, TV, radio and cinema, as factors interfacing with traditional cultural patterns in a global scenario
• Ethnic, Religious and Civilizational aspects: viewing the multiple dimensions of personal identity in a socio/global context
• Technological factors: how technological innovations -- as found notably in the computer revolution and the global INTERNET -- affect all the dimensions itemized above
• Normative considerations: how ideals and values vest in globalization and impinge on traditionalism by contrast with some of the ugly realities of globalization as a conflicted dimension of the contemporary world scene
• Health and disease: how global transportation and travel have accelerated the propensity for contagious diseases to spread globally -- and heightened the need for the WHO and humanitarian INGOs to extend their health-promoting efforts
• Environmental concerns: how industrialization and population growth have, together, contributed to environmental degradation, the greenhouse effect, scarcities of water, air pollution, desertification on land and in the oceans and lakes, generating a growing need for coordinated global efforts to combat these threats
• Educational implications: how have universities, schools and research centers responded to and been affected by globalization -- what are curricular and research implications for proactive scholars? Consider the enhanced mobility of students and faculty in a global context.

• Substantive: contribute to the fleshing out of neglected aspects of ethnicity (nationalism), migration, world-history, and traditional (Westphalian) ideas about inter-state politics
• Interdisciplinary: strengthen cross-disciplinary communication as a growing factor in the discourse of the International Studies Association
• Students: provide enhanced opportunities for some exceptionally promising students to enter the ISA community and the CISS section
• Growth: stimulate the development of the ISA as a globally oriented and cross-disciplinary community of scholars concerned about the major problems confronting today's world-system

Format: The Workshop will be organized as follows:

• Papers: 8 papers by respected authorities and distributed in advance will focus on some of the themes identified above.
• Students: 8 students will present the papers and evaluate them. Students may be nominated by the authors but will not present the papers prepared by their sponsors. The authors will respond to the presentation and critiques of their papers.
• Schedule: two days will be required, permitting 4 sessions, each to be divided into two segments, permitting enough time for a serious presentation and discussion of 8 papers.
• Technical Support: Overhead schematics and data available on Web Pages will supplement oral presentations. Most of the participants will want to project images from their own Web Sites during their presentations -- available sites are linked below following the coordinates of the proposed participants. This will not only enhance the on-site workshop, but it will facilitate preparatory and follow-up discourse on the INTERNET.
• Social Environment: Ample time for socialization is needed, starting with a reception the evening before the workshop starts, coffee-breaks and meals during the workshop, and dinner at the end of the first day. Experience shows that some of the most fruitful ideas emerge during informal conversations, supplementing and inspiring the formal presentations.
• Extension: Observers will be permitted at the workshop, attending at their own expense. All ISA members interested in problems relating to Globalization will be invited, and the ISA Sections that have an interest in globalization (as indicated above) will be asked to send a representative to the workshop. All data from the Workshop will be made available on the GLOBE-L list in draft form with links to the ISA Page. Publication of workshop papers will be arranged, both as drafts on the WWW and, eventually, in a symposium.

• CISS. The primary sponsor of the workshop will be the Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies section of the ISA. However, co-sponsorship by other sections, including ENMISA and the IPE World History sub-section, are expected.
• Recruiting graduate students: an important by-product of the Workshop will be the introduction to ISA of a group of exceptionally well qualified and motivated graduate students
• Publication: we expect that the Workshop papers can be published as a symposium in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, as a special monograph. Exploratory conversations with its editor by Henry Teune suggest this is a realistic possibility.
• CISS Panels: with co-sponsorship by other ISA sections, we anticipate that various CISS panels at the 2000 conference will relate to the "globalization" theme, as will sessions sponsored by other ISA sections as well.

Papers to be Presented by:

Chris Chase-Dunn, The interaction of cultural, economic and political globalization, and their consequences for conflict. Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA. fax 410 516 7590; e-mail: chriscd@jhu.edu; World Systems Network

Barry Gills, The world historical and geographic context of contemporary globalization. Dept. of Politics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU. fax: 44 0191 222 5069; tel: 44 0191 222 7742; messages 5064; email: B.K.Gills@newcastle.ac.uk

George Modelski, Political context: the state and inter-state system. Political Science,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. e-mail: modelski@u.washington.edu, Web Page

Susanne Schmeidl, Globalization and Migration. Swiss Peace Foundation, Institute for Conflict Resolution, Gerechtigkeitsgasse 12, PO Box, CH - 3000 Bern 8, Switzerland Tel. +41-31-310-27-31 or 310-27-27, Fax. +41-31-310-27-28, email: schmeidl@swisspeace.ch

Fred W. Riggs and Henry Teune, Concepts of Globalization

Fred W. Riggs , Political Science Department, University of Hawaii, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, U.S.A. Phone: (808) 956-8123 Fax: (808) 956-6877; e-mail: fredr@hawaii.edu; See Concepts of Globalization || Globalization on Home Page.

Henry Teune, Political Science Department, 217 Stiteler Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215. phone: (215) 898-4209; e-mail: hteune@sas.upenn.edu; Web Page: Local-Global .

Eduardo Viola, The environmental context. Department of International Relations, University of Brasilia, C. P. 04359, Brasilia, DF 70919-970, Brazil.
phone: 55-61-3442669; fax 55-61-3445684; e-mail: violaedu@nutecnet.com.br

One more paper will be added, with priority to women, economists, and third world participation. Students will be nominated by paper-givers after a grant has been assured.

BUDGET FOR TWO-DAY WORKSHOP ON 'GLOBALIZATION'

The following items are needed:

1. Direct Costs: All of the 16 participants (8 senior members and 8 students) should receive per diem subventions for two days to help them cover the added cost of hotel and meals during the workshop -- no doubt this will not be enough to cover their real costs.

[16 x $200 = 3200]

2. Student participants: a subvention for partial support of travel and ISA registration, averaging perhaps $500 -- but proportional to actual travel expenses.

[8 x $500 = 4000]

3. A dinner for participants and catered sandwich lunches for participants and guests -- estimated to cost $25 for each dinner and two lunches @ $10. each for two days and 20 people.

[dinner: 16 x 25 = 400; sandwiches: 20 x 20 = 400: total $800]

A reception should be held the evening before the workshop starts and a dinner at the end of the first day. Coffee should be served at breaks during the workshop. Perhaps CISS could cover the pre-workshop reception, plus its own reception for all participants to be held during the conference.

PER DIEM $3200

STUDENT SUBVENTION $4000

MEALS $800

TOTAL $8000

Other desirable features :

• Papers: a stipend for authors of the 8 papers -- [perhaps 8 x $500 = 4000].
• Travel: a special fund to help cover travel costs for paper-givers who would otherwise not be able to attend -- e.g., "third world" scholars, non-members who are prepared to join the ISA [possibly $3000]
• Administrative expenses for organizing and managing the workshop -- include support for a student helper and incidental costs for the project director who will be a volunteer [perhaps $2000].
• Projector: to permit presentation of images from the WWW during the workshop.

See linked pages:
[] Web Pages || GLOBE-L || ISA program || ISA/CISS conference ||Global Panel. ||
Beyond || World Systems Network || Modelski's Web Page || Teune's Local-Global page ||
Globalization Concepts || Globalization on Riggs' Page []

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