INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

Distinctive
features
On politics
On Culture
On
Economics
‘borderless world’:
‘stateless corporation’ –
intensified economic
interdependence/
competition; transworld
production; global
markets; global
production
liberal democracy/
privatization – ‘global
civilization’
Transnational
governance
‘cultural
synchronization’
homogenization →
cosmopolitanism OR
imperialism
convergence of global
culture → single
commodity-world
*Single global market,
global management,
global competitions –
denationalization of
economies
*polarization b/w
winners and losers
A set of changes –
social, cultural,
political; global
stratification
A number of
disjunctures
communications
transformation of
basic institutions –
global civil society
Civil society/ global
governance
‘glocalization’– local
particularities;
Particularisms –
reactions against
globalization;
Fragmentation –
substate identity
politics: ethnonationalism;
Heterogenization –
civil society
Growing
deteritorialization;
reorganization of
national economy
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*International
economy has
expanded since the
beginning of 19th
century
State sovereignty,
international relations
Fragmented into
civilization blocs and
cultural/ethnic
enclaves → ‘clash of
civilization’; illusion
of ‘global governance’
interactions between
national economies
Centrality of industry
– Trialization of
production; division
of labor →
marginalization of
‘Third World’ states
Adopted from: Scholte, 2000; Grugel, 2003; Held et al., 1999.
Table 2: The Economic History of the Olympics Games
Period Characteristics Examples
I: 1896
– 1968
II: 1969
– 1980
recurring financial problems,
identification of new sources of
income
publicly financed Olympic
Games; minor importance of
commercial sources
72 Munich: ‘special financing means’–
federal government, state, city subsidies
76: Montreal: 95% of funds by public
sector; US$2bn deficit paid by the City