CHED FACULTY TRAINING FOR THE TEACHING OF THE NEW GENERAL EDUCATION(GE)

CORE COURSES: SECOND GENERATION TRAINING

I. Title: THE GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM

II. Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
identify the Institutions that govern International Relations;
differentiate Internationalism from Globalism; and
explain the effects of globalization on governments.
III. Introduction:
This module will discuss what it will take for states to uphold a more
comprehensive set of rights: Civil and Political as well as Social and Economic Rights
which are essential for citizens to flourish in the current Political Climate and work
more assiduously to close the Citizenship Gap in order to create more equitable and
sustainable conditions for the next generation.

IV. Content:
Economic and Political Integration: The case of the European Union

Alongside economic interdependence, states formed regional partnerships.

Europe as continents political elite made the leap into market integration after WWII
from European Coal and Steel Community to European Union. It has 28 members
today with single currency and monetary system, supranational European Parliament,
and common citizenship.

The rise of International Law and Universal Principles

The failure of the League of Nations strengthened the collected will of world
leaders to start another international organization to facilitate global dialogue and
promote human rights and fundamental freedom. The United Nations was formed in
1945 though it has huge limitations: it never transcended the states system and
instead operates mainly as a forum for states to air their differences and try to resolve
them. This is especially apparent within the Security Council and its outdated
composition that awards veto power to each of the five countries that won the Second
World War, as well as the General Assemblys relative lack of power and its state-
based configuration.

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The UN has also been unable to prevent many atrocities and genocides
around the world during its history. Concerns about the limitations led to formation of
ad hoc tribunal and the permanent establishment of ICC. As the number of states has
risen steadily, national leaders have turned to the UN and European rights
declarations for inspiration when drafting constitutions and have often signed human
rights conventions quickly as a way of building up global respectability for their new
political legal systems.

States as Targets: The Rise of Transnational Activism

Transnational activism has deep roots that go back to 19 th century
campaigns against slavery, foot-binding practice in China, and for womens voting
rights. It is multifaceted as internationalism within which it has emerged. That although
globalization and global neo-liberalism are frames around which many activists
mobilize, the protest and organizations are not the product of a global imaginary but
of domestically rooted activists.

Communication Networks
Globalization accompanied new forms of digital media that bring to light the
possibility for new kinds of communities to coalesce via networks and create new
arenas for political interaction, identity, and belonging.
States are making a pragmatic transformation by adapting to fit in among
other socially decisive global networks in arenas such as finance, education, science,
technology, arts, cultures, sports and others.
The silver lining is that the new media opens up potential for citizens to gain
leverage and in the last resort, it is only the power of global society acting on the
public mind via the media and communication networks that may eventually
overcome the historical inertia of nation-states.

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V. Activity/Assessment:
Directions: Dramatize the effects of Globalization on Governments.

Rubrics

Message 50

Performance 30

Participation 20

Total 100 points

VI. References:
Friedman T (2000) The Lexus and the Olive
Tree, 2nd Edition, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Marquad D (2011) The End of the West:
The Once and Future Europe. Princeton, NJ; Princeton University
Rosenau J (20030 Distant Proximities:
Dynamics Beyond Globalization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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