Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Realising Hope
- Introduction: Building Better Futures
- 1 Making Globalisation Work
- 2 Energy: A Better Life with a Healthy Planet
- 3 Are Major Wars More Likely in the Future?
- 4 The Future of Work
- 5 Digital Technologies: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
- 6 Cities to the Rescue: A New Scale for Dealing with Climate Change
- 7 The Future of Global Poverty
- 8 Transcending Boundaries: The Realistic Hope for Water
- 9 Health Systems: Doomed to Fail or About to Be Saved by a Copernican Shift?
- 10 Seeding the Future: Challenges to Global Food Systems
- 11 The Great Livestock Trade-off: Food Production, Poverty Alleviation, and Climate Change
- 12 Rethinking Economics for Global Challenges
- 13 Leadership and the Future of Democratic Societies
- 14 Prototyping the Future: A New Approach to Whole-of-Society Visioning
- Five Principles of Realistic Hope
- Epilogue: From the Eclipse of Utopia to the Restoration of Hope
- Acknowledgements
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Endorsements for Realistic Hope
1 - Making Globalisation Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Realising Hope
- Introduction: Building Better Futures
- 1 Making Globalisation Work
- 2 Energy: A Better Life with a Healthy Planet
- 3 Are Major Wars More Likely in the Future?
- 4 The Future of Work
- 5 Digital Technologies: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
- 6 Cities to the Rescue: A New Scale for Dealing with Climate Change
- 7 The Future of Global Poverty
- 8 Transcending Boundaries: The Realistic Hope for Water
- 9 Health Systems: Doomed to Fail or About to Be Saved by a Copernican Shift?
- 10 Seeding the Future: Challenges to Global Food Systems
- 11 The Great Livestock Trade-off: Food Production, Poverty Alleviation, and Climate Change
- 12 Rethinking Economics for Global Challenges
- 13 Leadership and the Future of Democratic Societies
- 14 Prototyping the Future: A New Approach to Whole-of-Society Visioning
- Five Principles of Realistic Hope
- Epilogue: From the Eclipse of Utopia to the Restoration of Hope
- Acknowledgements
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Endorsements for Realistic Hope
Summary
Abstract
Despite the many benefits it has brought, globalisation is under attack. It is being blamed for negative effects that are the result of other factors. Exploring alternative future scenarios for globalisation provides some perspective and insights on what must be done to harness the positive and reduce the negative effects. This requires a global governance system with better rules for interaction among nation states, better national systems that address inequality and disruption caused by new technologies, and support for less advanced countries. It is necessary to go beyond raising awareness of what is at stake to mobilising for concrete actions that can move main stakeholders and country policies in the right direction.
Keywords: globalisation, global governance, disruptive technology, inequality, job loss, scenarios
The threat of de-globalisation
Globalisation is usually defined as increased international trade in goods and services and international financial flows. But globalisation is also people flows (international migration), knowledge and information flows (through mass media and the internet), pandemics (which now spread much faster because of increased international travel), and environmental degradation, which goes across national boundaries (global warming in particular, which is a new element we were not aware of before).
The mass media, many governments, and large parts of the population are railing against globalisation. On the specific issue of international trade it is noteworthy that whereas 30 years ago most people in advanced countries had a positive view of trade, while many in developing countries had a negative view, the perceptions are now the opposite. Most people in advanced countries think that trade has had negative effects on their wellbeing while most in developing countries think that it has been beneficial. The reaction against trade in developed countries appears to be linked to a strong perception that trade has led to job losses.
There has also been a growing anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe, the US, and Australia. In Europe this sentiment has been exacerbated by the large inflow of refugees from countries being torn apart by war, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and Syria. But also, many economic migrants from Africa and the Middle East have come to Europe in the last five years. In the US antiimmigration sentiment has been increased by fear stoked by President Trump that terrorists as well as criminals may be imbedded in migrant inflows.
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- Realistic HopeFacing Global Challenges, pp. 19 - 36Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2018