https://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/moving-the-global-economy_b_9608622.html

Keohane and Nye: Globalization: What’s new? What’s not?

What was most striking about the article and why?

What I found as the most striking idea in this article is that “globalization shrinks distance, but it does not make distance irrelevant” (Keohane & Nye, 117). Prior to doing the reading, whenever I thought about globalization, I thought of globalization as a way of killing distance. In other words, I saw globalization as a tool that aimed to decrease all distance. I think that to make the claim that distance is not always irrelevant in terms of globalization involves a lot of thinking on a deeper level about what role globalization plays in this world.

How did it change my world view?

In this article, the authors list different forms of globalism, one of which is “environmental globalism” (Keohane & Nye, 106). Prior to reading this article, I had never thought of the environmental changes as experiencing their own form of globalism. It is very interesting to know that a cycle exists between globalization, how humans are using the benefits of globalization, and the consequences that this creates for our planet. It appears that environmental globalism is involved with this idea that the more human activity depletes the earth, most often done through the use of modern technology, the more we are harming the earth.