These videos are from the SDG Academy online course Globalization: Past and Future, first launched in 2017 and taught entirely by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs.
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This chapter is an introduction to the course Globalization: Past and Future. Jeffrey Sachs provides an overview of the six major waves of globalization: the Great…
Six Major Globalizations
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The sixth wave of globalization is the one expected to characterize the 21st century. In this chapter, Professor Sachs provides an overview of the Planetary Boundaries…
Hitting Planetary Boundaries
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Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet-wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But…
The Ages of Globalization
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs joins the ancient world of the Roman Empire with the world of globalization that commences with Columbus and Vasco da Game in the last…
The Medieval Chinese Miracle
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What are the prime drivers of globalization? Where do they come from and how do they diffuse? And what are the fundamental patterns of global scale change that affect…
Prime Drivers of Globalization
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This chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Globalization: Past and Future. Professor Sachs talks about the need for a shared global vision on ethical values. Part…
Shared Global Vision and Ethics
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the fifth wave of globalization, which is the Industrial Age. He chooses 1776 as its starting point, as this was the year that…
James Watt Changes the World
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs elaborates on Adam Smith’s point that European trade and navigation brought plunder and misery to native inhabitants of many…
Conquest, Slavery and Genocide in the Americas
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This chapter focuses on the fourth wave of globalization, or the era of ocean-based globalization, and the period between Christopher Columbia and James Watt, the…
Sea-Based Globalization
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about needing new forms of governance and global cooperation. In a world of environmental threats and widening inequalities,…
The Quest for Sustainable Development
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This chapter discusses the diffusion of industrialization within Europe and around the world, and specifically its impact on India and Africa. Professor Sachs shows a…
High European Imperialism
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about USA-led globalization in the areas of governance, trade and decolonization. When World War II ended, the American economy…
US-led Globalization
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This chapter discusses the impacts of ocean-based globalization on competition between European imperialist empires, each trying to establish trading centers and…
Imperial Competition
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This chapter focuses on the third wave of globalization (land-based globalization), the Classical Age of the Roman Empire and the Han Empire in China, and the role of…
The Classical World
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Professor Sachs begins this chapter by explaining Angus Maddison's graphs of GDP per capita and population from the 1700s, in order to explain Europe’s rise…
The Beginning of Divergence of the West and Asia
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the mid-latitudes of Eurasia, which have been at the core of so much global change, technological dynamism, and world power…
The Eurasian Advantage
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