Globalization and Education for Global Citizenship

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[...] The formation of a global economic system goes beyond states and multinational agents. The traditional approach implies a neoclassical vision of the financial and economic characteristics of nation-states: beyond their regal functions, they have a particular constitutive role within a liberal economy. It can be argued that the respective development of FMNs and BMNs has been solid enough not to be challenged by any other economic-political authority instance. These organizations are, in light of this article, factors of internationalization leading to the emergence of a global capitalist system, but they are not, as explained by the author in the conclusion, a solution. [...]

[...] These two forces represent the main vectors of the debate on the form of European construction. However, an event will anchor integration in an economic form, it is the failure to establish the EDC, the European Defense Community in 1954 due to the non-ratification of France. European construction will focus more on the economic domain in political integration as we see with the establishment of the EEC, the European Economic Community with the Treaty of Rome in 1957. The author provides a description of the different institutions and organs of the European Union. [...]

[...] Its methodology is based on 'human education' rather than the more commonly used term 'humanistic education.' Here, the teacher serves as a model of pacifism, assuming the Buddhist function of a bodhisattva. The role of the teacher is to help students realize the inner dignity of their lives, cultivate the will to live more intensely, and empathize with the pain of others. The curriculum is strongly focused on peace, human rights, sustainable development, and environmental education. S. Talbot's trip to several Soka institutions in Japan is primarily described by the genuine happiness of the students: educators are tasked with being conciliatory and understanding, with the goal of making children responsible for others by following a three-step process that creates values. [...]

[...] Yet these countries are not so far apart because of the changes in their political orientations in recent years. And it is this rapprochement that is gradually driving them apart diplomatically and geopolitically. It is paradoxical, how two countries that share the same ambitions and an increasingly common model of society are slowly drifting apart. The last confrontation of this kind was the relationship between the USSR and the United States during the Cold War. But the system is not the same; the globe is interconnected, it is globalized. [...]

[...] This same Iraq war shows that the Bush administration can stumble as much diplomatically as militarily on a state as weak as this. The West does not appear as united in the absence of the red enemy. Furthermore, one must take into account the appearance of new competitors in international trade other than China, such as Japan and Russia, the first rich in high-tech products and manufactured goods, and the second in raw materials. The role to be played by China is found in Asian trade. [...]