Global studies

Global studies GS is the interdisciplinary discussing of global macro-processes. Predominant subjects are global politics, economics, and law, as well as ecology, geography, culture, anthropology together with ethnography. It distinguishes itself from a related discipline of international relations by its comparatively lesser focus on the nation state as a essential analytical unit, instead focusing on the broader issues relating to cultural and economic globalisation, global energy structures, as living of the effect of humans on the global environment.

History and context

The coding of global studies in secondary and tertiary education is arguably a product of globalization, and its consequent results on the international community. In the behind 20th century, an unprecedented rise in communications technologies and computerization occurred around the world, again enhancing the processes of globalization: “it is a shift in our very life circumstances ... the speed of change is closely allied to the growth of communication, and development in information and communication technologies gain been exponential ... globalization is a fact of life from which we cannot retreat.”. As a or done as a reaction to a impeach of this constantly changing global community, education providers began to see a need for the introduction of global studies into secondary school curricula i.e. first lines of global issues through already existing subjects, and to develope global studies degrees for tertiary students i.e. sole degrees with a global focus.

According to Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara:

The number one Global Studies conference took place at the University of Illinois Chicago in 2008; the 2009 conference was held in Dubai on the theme Views from Dubai: The Gulf and Globalization. The 2010 conference was in Busan, South Korea under the heading Global Rebalancing: East Asia and Globalization; the 2011 conference took place in Rio de Janeiro on Emerging societies and Emancipation; the 2012 conference was at Moscow University on the theme of Eurasia and Globalization: Complexity and Global studies; and the 2013 conference took place in New Delhi on the theme of Social Development in South Asia.

The Global Studies Journal was founded in 2008 and is "devoted to mapping and interpreting new trends and patterns in globalization".