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

CORE COURSES: SECOND GENERATION TRAINING

I. Title: GLOBALIZATION IN THE ASIA PACIFIC AND SOUTH ASIA

II. Learning Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:

differentiate Regionalization from Globalization;

identify the Factors Leading to a Greater Integration of the Asian

Region; and

analyze critically how different Asian States confront the challenges

of Globalization and Regionalization.

III. Introduction:

This chapter will discuss the relationship between the process of

globalization and the region of Asia Pacific and South Asia. This also deals
with a framework along three trajectories: the region as an object impacted by
globalization, the region as a subject pushing globalization forward, and
considering the region as alternative to globalization which will present a
series of snapshots as a way to offer a larger tapestry of the relationship
between process, place, and globalization in the Asia Pacific and South Asia.

IV. Content:

There are two processes seemingly in tension in the contemporary world

politics: a.) Globalization that integrates economic, political, social, and
cultural lines and b.) the emerging influence of Asia as global force. For
purposes of discussion Asia confines only Asia Pacific and South Asia. It
covers largest and populous state (China and India), generates the largest
share of global GDP and in its sheer size emerged over the past decades as
a new political force in the world.

Externalist view of Globalization

External phenomenon pushed into the region by world powers.

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Earliest manifestations emerge from the western arrival or first

globalization (invasion of Melaka and Magellans arrival in the
Visayas)

Scholars argue that the roots of national identity lie in the rise of
western industrialization and capitalism.

Asian countries, after WWII, able to adapt their economic policies

in line with globalized economic system and benefitted from export
oriented growth policies.

Generating Globalization: The Asia Pacific and South Asia as a

Springboard

The region serving as an engine for globalization

The region is also influencing and transforming the nature of

globalization itself

Asia not the west, was the central global force in the early modern
world economy.

The re-emergence of Asia today is seen as a restoration of its

traditional dominant position in the global economy.

The region as the source of wide variety of cultural phenomena that

spreads westward and the rest of the world.

The Anti- Global Impulse: Regional Alternatives to Globalization

The region is seen as a source of resistance to globalization or to

global or western powers (Japanese co- prosperity sphere, concept
of Asian values, EAEC, ASEAN and ASEAN +3, AMF, JI)

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V. Activity/ Assessment:

A. Directions: Answer the following questions and cite examples.

1. Draw the relationship between Regionalization and Globalization. (5

points)

2. Discuss how Asia Pacific and South Asia serve as engine for
Globalization. (10 points)

B. Making of Thought Paper

Browse the internet: John Grant 10 steps in making Thought Paper

VI. References:

Bunker SG (2007) East Asia and the Global Economy Japans Ascent, with
Implications for Chinas Future.Johns Hopkins studies in globalization.
Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press.

Stifel LD (1976) Technocrts and modernization in Thailand. Asian Survey

16(12): 1184-96.

Thompson M (2001) Whatever happened to Asian values? Journal of

Democracy 12(4): 154-65.

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