To prepare for this Discussion:

• Review this week’s reading materials in the Learning Resources.
• Consider how you would explain how globalization affects the following: family, friends, community, and the world in general.
• Based on this week’s reading, reflect on both the positive and negative thoughts that nations as a whole have about globalization.

With these thoughts in mind:

By Day 3

Post inferences (2–3 paragraphs) drawn from assessments, both positive and negative, of globalization and the effects on local and global levels.

Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week’s Learning Resources, or something you have read, heard, seen, or experienced.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

By Day 5

Respond to at least one of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:

• Ask a probing question.
• Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
• Offer and support an opinion.
• Validate an idea with your own experience.
• Make a suggestion.
• Expand on your colleague’s posting.

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Horowitz, I. L. (2006). Feuding with the past, fearing the future: Globalization as a cultural metaphor for the struggle between nation-state and world-economy. Social Philosophy & Policy, 23(1), 266.

Reilly, K. (2012). The human journey: A concise introduction to world history. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
The Human Journey: A Concise Introduction to World History, 1450 to the Present, 2nd Edition by Reilly, K. Copyright 2012 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.. Reprinted by permission of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. via the Copyright Clearance Center.

• Read sections on “The United States as a Global Power,” “Achieving Independence” and “New Nations on the Global Stage.”

Axford, B., & Huggins, R. (Eds.). (2011). Cultures and/of globalization.

• Read Chapter 4 located in Part 1.

Kupchan, C. (2012). No one’s world: The west, the rising rest, and the coming global turn.

• Read Chapter 5.

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