Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each claim by whether it belongs to the economic, the cultural or the political dimension of globalisation.
Groups: Economic · Cultural · Political
- Instant capital shifts
- Blocs gain state powers
- Cross-border production
- Localised global formats
- Global fast-food models
- Firms suing host states
Hints
- Two items concern how things are made or moved, two how meanings travel and two who decides.
- Investment treaties and regional bodies are both about the location of authority.
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Economic: Cross-border production, Instant capital shifts
Cultural: Global fast-food models, Localised global formats
Political: Firms suing host states, Blocs gain state powers
Why
Keeping the three dimensions apart prevents the commonest error in the field, which is inferring one from another. Economic integration has advanced much further than political integration almost everywhere, and cultural flows have never run only in the direction the economic ones do.
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