CHED FACULTY TRAINING FOR THE TEACHING OF THE NEW GENERAL EDUCATION(GE) CORE COURSES: SECOND GENERATION TRAINING I. Title : THE GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM II. Learning Objectives :
At the end end of the lesson, the the students students are expected expected to: to:
identify the Institutions that govern International Relations;
differentiate Internationalism from Globalism; and
explain the effects of globalization on governments.
III. Introduction:
This module will discuss what it will take for states to uphold a more comprehensive set of rights: Civil and Political as well as Social and Economic Rights which are essential for citizens to flourish in the current Political Climate and work in order to create more equitable and more assiduously to close the “ Citizenship Gap” in sustainable conditions for the next generation.
IV. Content:
Economic and Political Integration: The case of the European Union
Alongside Alongside economic economic interdependence interdependence,, states states formed regional partnerships. partnerships. Europe as continent’s political elite made the leap into market integration after WWII
from European Coal and Steel Community to European Union. It has 28 members today with single currency and monetary system, supranational European Parliament, and common citizenship.
The rise of International Law and Universal Principles
The failure of the League of Nations strengthened the collected will of world leaders to start another international organization to facilitate global dialogue and promote human rights and fundamental freedom. The United Nations was formed in 1945 though it has huge limitations: it never transcended the states system and instead operates mainly as a forum for states to air their differences and try to resolve them. This is especially apparent within the Security Council and its outdated composition that awards veto power to each of the five countries that won the Second World War, as well as the General Assembly’s relative lack of power and its state -
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CHED FACULTY TRAINING FOR THE TEACHING OF THE NEW GENERAL EDUCATION(GE) CORE COURSES: SECOND GENERATION TRAINING The UN has also been unable to prevent many atrocities and genocides around the world during its history. Concerns about the limitations led to formation of ad hoc tribunal and the permanent establishment of ICC. As the number of states has risen steadily, national leaders have turned to the UN and European rights declarations for inspiration when drafting constitutions and have often signed human rights conventions quickly as a way of building up global respectability for their new political legal systems.
States as Targets: The Rise of Transnational Activism
Transnational activism has deep roots that go back to 19 th century campaigns against slavery, foot- binding practice in China, and for women’s voting rights. It is multifaceted as internationalism international ism within which it has emerged. That although globalization and global neo-liberalism are frames around which many activists mobilize, the protest and organizations are not the product of a global imaginary but of domestically rooted activists.
Communication Networks
Globalization accompanied new forms of digital media that bring to light the possibility for new kinds of communities to coalesce via networks and create new arenas for political interaction, identity, and belonging. States are making a pragmatic transformation by adapting to fit in among other socially decisive global networks in arenas such as finance, education, science, technology, arts, cultures, sports and others. The silver lining is that the new media opens up potential for citizens to gain leverage and in the last resort, it is only the power of global society acting on the public mind via the media and communication networks that may eventually overcome the historical inertia of nation-states.
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CHED FACULTY TRAINING FOR THE TEACHING OF THE NEW GENERAL EDUCATION(GE) CORE COURSES: SECOND GENERATION TRAINING V. Activity/Assessment:
Di rections : Dr amatize matize the the effects effects of G loba lobalization lization on G overnments. overnments. Rubrics Message
50
Performance
30
Participation
20
Total
100 points
VI. References:
Friedman T (2000) The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 2nd Edition, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Marquad D (2011) The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe. Princeton, NJ; Princeton University
Rosenau J (20030 Distant Proximities: Dynamics Beyond Globalization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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