Paper 3 Global Politics · Globalisation
Globalisation - sentence stems
4 point and counter pairs - the opening lines that lock a balanced paragraph.
How to use these. Each pair is the opening line for a balanced paragraph - a Point and a Counter on the same theme. Read both aloud, cover one and recall it. Every paragraph carries both before its interim judgement.
Economic globalisation
Point - the case for
Economic globalisation lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, especially across East Asia, and delivered cheaper goods and faster technology transfer.
Counter - the case against
But it widened inequality within and between states and transmitted shocks worldwide - the 2008 crisis spread through integrated markets.
Cultural globalisation
Point - the case for
Cultural flows run both ways: Afrobeats, K-pop, Bollywood and Korean drama travel as far as American product, enriching rather than erasing.
Counter - the case against
But critics see homogenisation - 'McDonaldisation' - as the cultural face of US power, eroding local distinctiveness.
Political globalisation
Point - the case for
It built institutions - the UN, WTO, IMF - that can coordinate responses to cross-border problems no state can solve alone.
Counter - the case against
But governance above the state is attacked as eroding national democracy, taking decisions far from voters.
The theoretical lens
Point - the case for
Hyperglobalists argue the nation-state is in decline and a borderless economy is emerging.
Counter - the case against
Sceptics reply that globalisation is exaggerated - mostly regionalisation between strong states, with governments still dominant.