4.1.1 Global interactions
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- How global power and influence varies spatially
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- Globalization indices showing how countries participate in global interactions
- Case study or detailed examples
- Neither required by the syllabus
- Aims of this lesson
- To be able to describe and explain what ‘global interactions’ are.
- To be able to describe and explain how the KOF Globalisation Index ranks countries and measure their global interactions.
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
Key terms
- Cross-border flows
- Flows of products, services, capital, information and people across political (country) borders.
- Global connectedness
- Refers to the depth and breadth of a country's integration with the rest of the world, as manifested by its participation in international flows of products and services, capital, information , and people.
- Global interactions
- A two-way and complex process whereby cultural traits and commodities may be adopted, adapted or resisted by societies. The process is neither inevitable nor universal.
- Globalisation index
- The KOF Globalisation Index is one of several measures of globalisation. It measures the economic, social and political dimensions of globalisation.
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Review
- Globalisation indices provide a reliable measure of how countries participate in global interactions. To what extent do you agree with this statement? [16]