5.3 Challenges from Globalization

Lesson Overview

Globalization can constrain policy autonomy, expose workers to competition, spread financial shocks, accelerate migration, and create transnational environmental and security problems. It also enables cooperation and new political networks.

Compare state responses and social effects across the six AP course countries, attending to both capacity and distribution.

Quantitative lens: ${inequality_gap=top_income_share-bottom_income_share}$.