QUESTION 1
(a) Your chosen organisation (5%)
Describe briefly, in no more than 100 words, the nature of your chosen organization and how it perceives globalization.
Global Trade Watch (GTW)
This organization promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor “free trade.” Their work seeks to make the measurable outcomes of this model accessible to the public, press, and policy-makers, while emphasizing that if the results are not acceptable, then the model can and must be changed or replaced. GTW works on an array of globalization issues, including health and safety, environmental protection, economic justice, and democratic, accountable governance.
(from GTW’s website)
WORD COUNT: 86
(b) Perceptions about the protests (15%)
Describe the anti globalization protests from your chosen group’s perspective using a rich picture or spray diagram. Write brief notes of no more than 100 words to summarise key themes that arise from your diagram.
Appendix 1
- Not being “heard” by the World Trade Organization
- Many different non governmental organizations with different wants and needs against the World Trade Organization
- Joint forces with the other non governmental organizations would probably help
- The World Trade Organization seems to have no other organization which would control their activities on a governmental level at all, or not on any other level anyway
WORD COUNT: 66
QUESTION 2
UNDERSTANDING
(a) Relationships with other organizations (15%)
Make a list, using no more than 100 words, of other organizations that your chosen organization relates to, in the ...