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title: Globalization & Transnational
description: This topic examines social, economic, and cultural processes that transcend national borders. Learners will understand how transnational networks, migration, and global institutions reshape local communities, national identities, and international relations.
category: humanities
subcategory: cultural-studies
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/globalization-and-transnational
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# Globalization & Transnational

This topic examines social, economic, and cultural processes that transcend national borders. Learners will understand how transnational networks, migration, and global institutions reshape local communities, national identities, and international relations.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 1 Courses

## Podcasts

### 1. Global Podcast

**Author:** BBC World Service

The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight.Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment.Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn

**Tags:** world-news, current-affairs, international-politics, journalism, bbc

### 2. The Border

**Author:** Kristaps Andrejsons

A podcast about the politics and the history of the eastern Europe - including, but not limited to the current state of Russia, politics of the EU, history of the USSR and the region in general.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://theeasternborder.lv/

**Tags:** eastern-europe, russia, soviet-history, geopolitics, post-soviet-states

## Books

### 1. Empire

**Author:** Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri

Hardt and Negri argue that sovereignty has shifted from nation-states to a decentered global order they call Empire. Readers gain a Marxist-influenced framework for analyzing supranational power, biopolitical production, and the multitude that resists it.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674006712?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

### 2. Runaway World

**Author:** Anthony Giddens

Giddens's short lecture-based book on how globalisation reshapes tradition, family, risk, and democracy. Readers come away with a sociological vocabulary for the runaway character of late modernity and why local life is increasingly governed by distant forces.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1861974299?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

## Courses

### 1. Globalization

LMU Munich's Christopher Balme traces how theatre and globalization shaped each other over the past century, following touring companies, agents, and playhouses. Participants finish able to frame performance history transnationally and research global theatre networks from archival sources.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-theatre

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, cultural-studies

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