Week 13 - Friday

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Across
  1. 1. Scholte criticizes current analysis of globalization because it is ___ in that it does not generate new understand that is not attainable with other concepts. These old conceptualizations of globalization cannot grasp certain key features of our times.
  2. 5. Part of globality – a phenomenon in which social connections substantially transcend territorial geography.
  3. 8. The surname of the best professor – nay, the best teacher of any kind – that the world could ever imagine. Brave, handsome, and articulate, with impeccable handwriting. It is all downhill after having Professor ____ for intro. (Hint: If you know what’s good for you, you will write a word that rhymes with “Schmonaldson”).
  4. 10. Moises Naim argues that what makes the threats he discusses so difficult in this globalized world is that they are not bound by ___, defy traditional notions of sovereignty, and pit government against market forces.
Down
  1. 2. one of the traditional definitions of globalization, ___ization refers to a growing ‘planetary synthesis of cultures’ in a ‘global humanism.’ It involves the spreading of various objects and experiences – everything from Chinese restaurants to cattle farming – to people at all corners of the earth.
  2. 3. Scholte spends an entire section arguing that a good ____ is important because (among other things) it serves to advance knowledge, can promote values, can bring precision to the issue at hand, and can encompass understandings in the fewest words.
  3. 4. Moises Naim argues that globalization as made the job of fighting “five ____ of globalization” against the international system – which mainly consist of well-financed networks of highly dedicated individuals.
  4. 6. Scholte argues that globalization is best understood as ___ization or ‘globality.’ This entails a reconfiguration of social geography with increased transplanetary connections between people and another factor also in this puzzle.
  5. 7. One of the ways that Naim suggests we rethink the problem of globalization is to move from repression to ____.
  6. 9. My TA’s real smart and helpful as well. I can’t remember her name but her face rings a Christa___ (just one ‘l’)