Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

1. Watch the documentary Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (available in the Media Department of the Hunt Library and online).
2. Summarize the central themes developed in the documentary (1.5 pages).
3. Using concrete examples from the documentary, explain the ways in which it addresses the following issues:
a. How globalization has been transforming the old First World-Second World-Third World world order into a new Core-Semi-Periphery-Periphery world order (1 page).
b. The emergence of the Global East (1 page).
c. The first major pitfalls of globalization (1 page).
4. In a brief conclusion give your views on the documentary and highlights the opportunities and challenges that globalization presents to the world (1/2 page).