Obama Speech

This is a short speech from Obama but there is a point where he speaks about going to the google head quarters and seeing a image of the world showing all the internet searches around the world in all the different languages, "a image of a world where all boundaries are disappearing, a world where communication, connection and competition can come from anywhere." - Obama
the world may seem like it is shrinking but why would that it a bad thing, we can now get ourselves and information anywhere around the world, in my own opinion it can't be a bad thing. To unite the world in this way is an amazing achievement.

A short documentary on globalisation, is quite one sided but it shows the strengths and positives on globalisation and global capitalism and how it helps countries grow such at Taiwan and Vietnam.
globalisation creates jobs and better lives for these people, the only way countries get out of poverty is to embrace globalisation and uses it to trade with other countries. In the past 15 years the Vietnamese economy has doubled this can prove in itself that globalisation can work and help.

Matt Boak Reading List

A Very Short Introduction - Globalization

Manfred B. Steger

Gloalisation - Issues

Craig Donnellan

The Handbook of Globalisatio, Second Edition

Jonathan Michie