A Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Berch Berberoglu

The Impact of Globalization on the Third World

in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Century

A Roundtable Discussion with

Dr. Berch Berberoglu

27 February 2017 (Monday), 10:30 AM - 12:00 NN

Third World Studies Center, Lower Ground Floor, Palma Hall

University of the Philippines Diliman

The Department of Sociology and the Third World Studies Center of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman invites the public to participate in this roundtable discussion with Dr. Berch Berberoglu of University of Nevada, Reno.

ABSTRACT

The globalization of capital and economic expansion by the transnational corporations on a world scale have had a great impact on the social, economic, and political structure of Third World societies in the twentieth and early twenty-first century.  This has led to enormous imbalances and inequalities on a global scale that have immense political implications. This process, which has evolved over the course of the twentieth century, has now become the dominant form of global political relations and has consequences for national economic development, social well-being, and global governance. Under the guise of neoliberalism – invoking privatization, “free trade,” and de-nationalization of resources – transnational corporations of the advanced capitalist countries have amassed great wealth for their owners, while causing great harm to peoples and nations around the globe and have devastated the lives of millions across the world. It is this inequitable situation that has led to immense inequalities in the Third World, which calls into question the very basis of the global economic system and points to alternative solutions that are viable and in line with the interests of the great majority of the people in the world today.

ABOUT THE LECTURER

Prof. Berch Berberoglu is Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1977. He has been teaching and conducting research at the University of Nevada, Reno for the past 39 years. He has served as department chair on three different occasions, totaling 14 years. Dr. Berberoglu has written and edited 32 books and many articles.

His most recent books include Globalization of Capital and the Nation-State (2003), Globalization and Change: The Transformation of Global Capitalism (2005), Globalization in the 21st Century: Labor, Capital, and the State on a World Scale (2010); Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis: The World Economy in Transition (2012), Political Sociology in a Global Era (2013), and The Global Capitalist Crisis and Its Aftermath (2014). His latest book Social Theory: Classical and Contemporary — A Critical Perspective was published by Routledge in January 2017. 

His areas of specialization include globalization, international political economy, development, political sociology, and comparative-historical sociology. He is currently working on two new books titled America After Empire: The Promise and the Vision for a New America in the 21st Century, which will be published by Routledge in 2017, and The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.