Th.1: Maritimization
These underwater infrastructures carry over 95% of international data and phone traffic, making them geostrategic assets for global communication.
What are submarine cables?
This spatial theory explains the unequal distribution of power, with influential regions dominating and less integrated regions depending on them.
What is the Core-Periphery theory (or model)?
These designated areas offer tax incentives and specialized infrastructure to attract foreign TNCs, often used by emerging countries like China.
What are Special Economic Zones (SEZs)?
This major EU policy aims to support farmers, ensure food security, and has significant territorial impacts on the European countryside.
What is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)?
The standardization of cargo into these large metal boxes revolutionized maritime trade and global logistics.
What is containerization?
According to UNCLOS, this maritime zone extends 200 nautical miles from the coast, granting a state sovereign rights over all natural resources.
What is an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
This group of the world's least integrated countries often lacks access to the global economy due to landlocked geography or poor governance.
What are Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
These non-state actors often step in to provide aid or development assistance in areas where the state or private sector fails.
What are NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)?
This term refers to the EU's goal of reducing the gap between its richest and poorest regions through development projects.
What is territorial cohesion?
A narrow, strategic maritime passage that can be easily blocked, potentially disrupting global trade
What is a maritime chokepoint?
This French-based shipping giant is a world leader in container transport and a key actor in the organization of global trade routes.
Who is CMA-CGM?
These three international organizations are the primary actors responsible for managing the rules of the global economy.
What are the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization?
This type of industrial organization involves the different stages of a product's production being spread across multiple countries to maximize profit.
What are Global Value Chains (GVCs)?
Despite its economic power, the EU is often called an "incomplete power" because it lacks a common policy in these two specific areas.
What are foreign policy and military/defense policy?
Large companies that operate in multiple countries and are the primary drivers of globalization.
What are TNCs (Transnational Corporations)?
Which maritime zone is considered "international waters" with no state sovereignty?
The High Seas.
While globalization occurs at a global scale, this term describes the stark differences in wealth and infrastructure found between different regions inside a single country.
What is regional inequality?
What is the main goal of a "trade bloc"?
To reduce trade barriers (like tariffs) between member nations.
This specific country is cited in your programme as a "European power" that still faces challenges with the unequal integration of its own territories.
What is Germany?
The shifting of manufacturing from developed to developing nations to take advantage of lower labor costs.
What is the New International Division of Labour (NIDL)?
Evaluate why the opening of the North West Passage is considered a "double-edged sword" for global governance.
They offer shorter trade paths (economic gain) but cause environmental damage and sovereignty disputes (geopolitical risk).
What is the term for the world's most influential economic countries, like France and Britain?
The Core (or G7).
What is the main benefit of an SEZ for a foreign company?
Lower taxes and cheaper labor.
Name one internal challenge currently facing the EU.
The migration crisis, the enlargement process, Brexit, etc.
Define "Globalisation".
The increasing integration and interdependence of world economies.