Communication sphere: political
FILE 2. Globalization and Kazakhstan
| LEAD-IN |
| “Globalization is not just about changing relations between the ‘inside’ of the nation-state and the ‘outside’ of the international system. It cuts across received categories, creating myriad multilayered intersections, overlapping playing fields, and actors skilled at working across these boundaries. People are at once rooted and rootless, local producers and global consumers, threatened in their identities yet continually remaking those identities.” Philip G. Cerny |
Comment on the following quotations:
| “It is both a sad and a happy fact of engineering history that disasters have been powerful instruments of change. Designers learn from failure. Industrial society did not invent grand works of engineering, and it was not the first to know design failure. What it did do was develop powerful techniques for learning from the experience of past disasters. It is extremely rare today for an apartment house in North America, Europe, or Japan to fall down. Ancient Rome had large apartment buildings too, but while its public baths, bridges and aqueducts have lasted for two thousand years, its big residential blocks collapsed with appalling regularity. Not one is left in modern Rome, even as ruin. ” Edward Tenner, 1997 |
| “Without doubt, our inability to design and implement a sustainable economic framework has resulted to our present ranking on the globalization index; a precious market to the productive countries.” Tony Osborg, Can Nigeria Bake Her Own Bread? |
2. Discuss these questions:
1. What was the main problem of Kazakhstan when it gained its independence?
2. What does the success of the begun transformations directly depend on?
3.How do you think about the multi-vector foreign policy? Was it fruitful policy?
4.Which the geopolitical prospects of development of our state were predetermined?
| VOCABULARY ZONE |
- Discuss the meaning of the words and phrases in bald in sentences 1-5 below.
1.Poverty is still an issue in manydeveloping countries.
2.Manyless developed countriessuffer from a poor transport infrastructure.
3. It is the responsibility of theindustrialized worldto provide financial support.
4. Richer nationsexploited the natural resources found in Africa and asia in colonial times.
5. While the USA was the greateconomic superpowerof the twentieth century, it seems likely that the world economy will be dominated by China and India in the twenty first century.