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Globalization: Power
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Globalization ... has a dark side. It produces economic and social dislocations and arouses public concerns over job security; the distribution of economic gains; and the impact of volatility on families, communities, and nations. Many also worry about a growing concentration of economic power; harm to the environment; danger to public health and safety; the disintegration of indigenous cultures; and the loss of sovereignty, accountability, and transparency in government. These, too, are issues that have been topics of concern to American diplomats and foreign policymakers throughout the twentieth century.
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The rise of contingent work: As globalization causes more and more jobs to be shipped overseas, and the middle class declines, there is less need for corporations to hire full time employees. Companies are less inclined to offer benefits (health insurance, bonuses, vacation time, shares in the company, and pensions), or reduce benefits, to part time workers. Most companies don’t offer any benefits at all. Even though most of the middle class workers still have their jobs, the reality is that their buying power has decreased due to decreased benefits. Job security is ... a major issue with contingent work. [33]
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This example shows the multilevel strategies that globalization from below is using to parlay its power. While asserting authority superior to the WTO, the protocol ... illustrates the crucial positive role that international institutions can play in limiting the depredations of global corporations and markets. And it empowered national governments to regulate GMOs and the corporations that purvey them. The campaign put pressure both on governments and directly on corporations like Monsanto, while other governments put pressure on the US government, a leading force against regulation of GMOs. It may well have been the pressure on Monsanto and its resultant change of heart that changed the position of the US government.
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Participants noted that globalization could ... give rise to new sources of rivalry. Deepening economic integration, for example, could contribute to the emergence of regional economic blocks that compete for power and influence. Some participants suggested that the European Union’s rise as a possible challenge to American economic dominance can be seen as a political consequence of globalization.
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The transforming impact of globalization on higher education practices around the world is a topic of growing interest for concerned publics everywhere. Academics, students, unions and "global citizens" share overlapping concerns over shifts in higher education. They are raising questions about the links between knowledge, democracy and power globally.
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While globalization may confront government officials with more difficult choices, the result for their citizens is greater individual freedom. In this sense, globalization acts as a check on governmental power that makes it more difficult for governments to abuse the freedom and property of their citizens. Below, you'll find work Cato's scholars have done on globalization.
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