1. HL EXTENSION THEME #1:
MEASURING GLOBAL INTERACTIONS
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) (1980-1998)
World trade of goods since 1950

2. World population since 1700 Tariffs and trade since 1947
Main regional economic organizations
Back of an iPhone

3. WORLD TRADE (2006)
World Trade in 2006 (amounts in $B)
Intra-regional trade
Out-of-region trade
Commercial exchanges($B)

4. Suez Canal (Egypt)
Rotterdam Seaport (Netherlands)
Airbus A380
Supertanker

5. GLOBALIZATION INDICES
A.T. KEARNEY GLOBALIZATION INDEX KOF GLOBALIZATION INDEX
www.atkearney.com www.globalization.kof.ethz.ch
72 countries ranked in 2007 181 countries ranked in 2010 (max = 100)
• ECONOMIC INTEGRATION (US #71, Singapore #2)
• Foreign Trade
• Foreign Direct Investments (FDI)
• PERSONAL CONTACT (US #40, Singapore #3)
• International phone calls
• International travels
• International Remittances
• TECHNOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY (US #1, Singapore #15)
• Internet users
• Internet hosts
• Secure servers
• POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT (ex: US #51, Singapore #40)
• Foreign aid
• Participation in international treaties
• Membership in international organizations
• Participation to UN peacekeeping missions

6. The AT Kearney Globalization Index Top 20 (2007: 72 surveyed)
Source: www.atkearney.com

7. AT Kearney Global City Index (2007)

8. KOF World Index since 1970

9. World population:
Triad = 20%
and decreasing
World GDP:
Triad = 80%
and increasing

10. CORE
Economic and political
decision-making
CORE
Financial, technological, military
superiority
CORE
CORE
SEMI-PERIPHERY
Assembly of manufactured goods
Emerging markets
Growing participation
PERIPHERY
Source of raw material,
Dependent on foreign investment and technology
No participation in the
decision-making process

11. CORE – PERIPHERY MODEL (Wallerstein)

12. Where’s the remotest place on Earth?
Time travel to major cities and major shipping lanes
www..newscientist.com/gallery/small-world

13. CORE AND PERIPHERIES

14. World Economic Forum in Switzerland (2010) Toy factory in China

15. World Social Forum in Brazil (2005)
Hugo Chavez (Venezuela) and Subcomandante Marcos (Mexico)