Globalisation: Definitions and Perspectives (Composed by Eric Beerkens, 2006)
Globalization refers to all those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society, global society (p.9).
Albrow
1990
Globality is supplanting modernity (p. 4)
Albrow
1996
The world economy has become so highly interdependent as to make national independence an anachronism, especially in financial markets. The interdependence is driven by science, technology and economics - the forces of modernity.; and these forces, not governments, determined international relations. Thanks to this interdependence, war between modern nations is an impossibility.
Angell
1911
The critical point is that both sides of the coin of
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It has two distinctive features: it is global and it is structured, to a large extent, around a network of financial flows.
Castells
1996
The rise of [global] informationalism in this end of millenium is intertwined with rising inequality and social exclusion throughout the world.(…) Moreover, the process of social exclusion in the network society concerns both people and territories. So that, under certain conditions, entire countries, regions, cities and neighbourhoods become excluded, embracing in this exclusion most, or all, of their populations. This is different from the traditional process of spatial segragation.
Castells
1998
The state as a ‘competition state' plays a fundamental role in promoting globalization.
However, this does not mean that, once the genie is out of the bottle, globalization is reversible. Cerny
1999
At the end of the twentieth century, the analysis of globalization of capital must start with finance. The financial sphere is the one in which the internationalization of markets is most advanced; the one in which the operations of capital have reached the highest degree of mobility. Chesnais
1997
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Newman
1997
The happy ending of the globalisation narrative is one in which both nations and companies become faster and more agile in developing respomnses to new forms of competition. In relation to the public sector, this narrative of globalisation as a double purchase. Not only
For some people, globalization is so feared it is synonymous with world destruction. In the end, for all we know, maybe this will be proven before it is over. In reality however, there are many good things that have resulted from globalization(1, Premise). Let’s for a moment focus on the economy, even though there are many other advantages that have been brought forward that will also be discussed. Many Americans do not appreciate how efficient our markets are, in this case efficiency in reference to supply and demand is number one. These efficient markets allow economies to grow. As many have learned in a global world, when one economy grows, it spurs growth in all the other economies
Commentators contend that globalization has disintegrated national sway and has brought about an exchange of force from states to enterprises or to universal associations. Since the late 1970s, there has been a developing acknowledgment of a belief system, frequently called "globalism," that supports an open market and constrained government impedance in capital and exchange streams. Corporate hobbies have driven this motivation, which they have forced, the faultfinders contend, on the creating
The State University of New York (2014) provides and clear and accurate description of globalization:
Fueled by the expansion of multinational corporations and financial institutions, technological advances, and the increasing porousness of national borders, Globalization is a persistent, multifaceted phenomenon, which has and continues to have, significant impact on economical, political and cultural relations. The book, “The Lexus and The Olive Tree” by Thomas Friedman describes globalization as not just a fade or trend, but political and economical system that replaced the cold war. Friedman explains where we are and how we get here, through a series of skillful metaphors, highly relevant anecdotes, and cogent analysis. In this paper I provide a concise description of the principle arguments Friedman makes about globalization, and
Globalisation has considerably changed the face of how economies and countries operate in today’s world, enabling the openness of transactions with one another. It is due to the humanistic desires for the pursuit of prosperity that the concept of globalization paves a pathway to which economies can achieve this – facilitating the capacity to strengthen and condition existing relations between these countries.
The world is not a large and strange place anymore. The world is a place that is interconnected and intertwined. The world has become from a place that each country and their peoples are separate and isolated to a place that each country and their peoples are part of a global network. Thanks to globalization this is occurring. Globalization is the ‘international integration” or ‘de-bordering’ – “a number of highly disparate observations whose regular common denominator is the determination of a profound transformation of the traditional nation-state” (Von Bogdandy 2). Globalization is connecting different people from different cultures and backgrounds together. More and more corporations are entering new foreign markets to sell their
'Despite the views of many optimists, there are clearly losers as well as winners from the process of globalization.'
The theory of globalization today is a field of intensive debate as the efforts towards defining globalization most often highlight its individual aspects. According to Held and McGrew (1999), “globalisation is an idea whose time has come, yet it lacks precise definition”. Despite the ambiguity of the term “globalisation,” the use of the term, according to Held and McGrew, reflects increased interconnectedness in political, economic and cultural matters across the world creating a shared social space. Given this inter-connectedness, globalisation may be defined as: “a process which embodies a transformation in the spatial organisation of social relations and
‘Globalization: What’s new? What’s not? (And so what)’, portrays the speed in which globalism has increased through many different factors; economically, military, environmentally and socially. This is an idealist analytic approach, not set in stone. This leads on to
Globalization involves a variety of links expanding and tightening a web of political, economic and cultural inter-connections. Most attention has been devoted to merchandise trade as it has had the most immediate (or most visible) consequences, but capital, in and of itself, has come to play an arguably even larger role than the trade in material goods. Human movements also link previously separate communities. Finally, there is the cultural connection. All the individual data would indicate that we are undergoing a process of compression of international time and space and an intensification of international relations. The separation of production and consumption that is the heart of modern capitalism appears to have
Globalization is not only inevitable, but also a blessing in disguise. It is something like,
It is known that the economy is definitely effected by globalization, but not always in a negative way. In a sense, the world revolves around some situations dealing
There will also be a heavy focus on transnational corporations as they are seen as one of the most important actors in shaping social policy. It is important to remember that globalisation in not only about economic effects but it can also be discussed in relation to political globalisation and how political decisions have shifted due to upwards to the European Union and beyond also cultural globalisation that has seen the ‘Mcdonalization’ of traditional culture into the international culture of consumerism (Ritzer,1993).
Looking towards history, markets has been increasingly integrated to a global market, which was followed by the spread of ideologies (liberalism, democracy, capitalism,
The late 20th and early 21st centuries have brought increasing change to almost every country in the world, Australia included. Globalism describes, in fact, the increasing unification of the world through economic means (reduction of trade barriers, support of international trade, and mitigation of export and import quotas). They goal for globalization is to increase material wealth and the distribution of goods and services through a more international division of labor and then, in turn, a process in which regional cultures integrate through communication, transportation and trade. The overall theory is that if countries are tied together cooperatively economically, they will not have needed to become political enemies. Additionally, the idea of globalism and international trade has changed the way Australian's view public and private businesses and the opportunities afforded them because of investment, infrastructure development, and participation in a more global economic structure.