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'''Globalization''' (]; also ] ) or '''globalisation''' (non-Oxford ]; ]) is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to ], the liberalization of capital movements, the development of ], and the advancement of ].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scholte |first1=Jan Aart |title=Defining Globalisation |journal=] |date=2008 |volume=31 |issue=11 |pages=1471–1502 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.01019.x|url=http://elartu.tntu.edu.ua/handle/lib/46943 }}</ref> The term ''globalization'' first appeared in the early 20th century (supplanting an earlier French term ''mondialisation''), developed its current meaning sometime in the second half of the 20th century, and came into popular use in the 1990s to describe the unprecedented international connectivity of the ].<ref name="tandfonline.com">{{Cite journal|last2=Steger|first2=Manfred B.|author-link2=Manfred Steger|year=2014|title=A Genealogy of globalization: The career of a concept|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/11/4|journal=Globalizations|volume=11|issue=4|pages=417–34|doi=10.1080/14747731.2014.951186|last1=James|first1=Paul|bibcode=2014Glob...11..417J |s2cid=18739651|author-link1=Paul James (academic) |issn = 1474-7731}}</ref> The origins of globalization can be traced back to the 18th and 19th centuries, driven by advances in transportation and communication technologies. These developments increased global interactions, fostering the growth of international trade and the exchange of ideas, beliefs, and cultures. While globalization is primarily an economic process of interaction and integration, it is also closely linked to social and cultural dynamics. Additionally, ] and ] have played significant roles in the history and evolution of globalization, continuing to shape its modern form.
'''Globalisation''' (or '''globalization''') is the process of integration across world-space arising from the interchange of ]s, products, ideas, and other aspects of ].<ref name=GCSP>Al-Rodhan, R.F. Nayef and Gérard Stoudmann. (2006). </ref><ref name=Albrow>Albrow, Martin and Elizabeth King (eds.) (1990). ''Globalization, Knowledge and Society ''London: Sage. ISBN 978-0803983243 p. 8. "...all those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society."</ref> Advances in ] and ]s infrastructure, including the rise of the ] and its posterity the ], are major factors in globalization, generating further ] of economic and cultural activities.<ref name=Stever_1972>Stever, H. Guyford (1972). "Science, Systems, and Society." ''Journal of Cybernetics'', 2(3):1–3. {{doi|10.1080/01969727208542909}}</ref>


Economically, globalization involves goods, ], data, technology, and the economic resources of ].<ref name="Albrow">{{Cite book|url={{google books|id=lfe1AAAAIAAJ|plainurl=yes}}|title=Globalization, Knowledge and Society|last1=Albrow|first1=Martin|last2=King|first2=Elizabeth|publisher=Sage|year=1990|isbn=0-8039-8323-9|location=London|oclc=22593547}}</ref> The expansion of global markets liberalizes the economic activities of the exchange of goods and funds. Removal of cross-border trade barriers has made the formation of global markets more feasible.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.nap.edu/read/2134/chapter/3|title=Read "Following the Money: U.S. Finance in the World Economy" at NAP.edu|year=1995|publisher=National Academies Press |doi=10.17226/2134|isbn=978-0-309-04883-5|language=en}}</ref> Advances in transportation, like the ], ], ], and ], and developments in telecommunication infrastructure such as the ], the ], ], and ], have been major factors in globalization and have generated further interdependence of economic and cultural activities around the globe.<ref name="Imagining">{{cite web | url=http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/150/1830.xhtml | title=Imagining the Internet | publisher=Elon University School of Communications | work=History of Information Technologies | access-date=17 August 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323040248/http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/150/1830.xhtml | archive-date=23 March 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Stever_1972">{{cite journal | last1 = Stever | first1 = H. Guyford | year = 1972 | title = Science, Systems, and Society | journal = Journal of Cybernetics | volume = 2 | issue = 3| pages = 1–3 | doi = 10.1080/01969727208542909 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Wolf|first=Martin|date=September 2014|title=Shaping Globalization|url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2014/09/pdf/wolf.pdf|journal=Finance & Development|publisher=International Monetary Fund|volume=51|issue=3|pages=22–25|access-date=10 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922062300/https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2014/09/pdf/wolf.pdf|archive-date=22 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
Though scholars place the origins of globalization in ], others trace its history long before the European ] and voyages to the ]. Some even trace the origins to the third millennium BCE.<ref name=GL-H-09/><ref name=GL-H-10>{{cite web|title=''Globalization and Global History'' (p.127)|url=http://58.192.114.227/humanities/sociology/htmledit/uploadfile/system/20110522/20110522005012939.pdf|accessdate=3 July 2012}}</ref> In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the connectedness of the world's economies and cultures grew very quickly.


Though many scholars place the ] in ], others trace its history to long before the European ] and voyages to the ], and some even to the third millennium BCE.<ref name="GL-H-09" /> Large-scale globalization began in the 1820s, and in the late 19th century and early 20th century drove a rapid expansion in the connectivity of the world's economies and cultures.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=H.|first1=O'Rourke, Kevin|last2=G.|first2=Williamson, Jeffrey|s2cid=15767303|date=1 April 2002|title=When did globalisation begin?|journal=European Review of Economic History|language=en|volume=6|issue=1|doi=10.1017/S1361491602000023|issn=1361-4916|pages=23–50}}</ref> The term '']'' was subsequently popularized by ] ] in her work ''The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo'' (1991).<ref>Sassen, Saskia - '' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316103717/http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6943.html |date=16 March 2015 }}'' (1991) – ]. {{ISBN|0-691-07063-6}}</ref>
The term globalization has been increasingly used since the mid-1980s and especially since the mid-1990s.<ref></ref> In 2000, the ] (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: ] and ], ] and ] movements, ] and movement of people, and the dissemination of ].<ref name="12th April 2000: IMF Publications">International Monetary Fund . (2000). "Globalization: Threats or Opportunity." </ref> Further, environmental challenges such as ], cross-boundary water, air ], and ] of the ocean are linked with globalization.<ref name="Bridges2002">{{cite journal|last=Bridges|first=G.|title=Grounding Globalization: The Prospects and Perils of Linking Economic Processes of Globalization to Environmental Outcomes|journal=Economic Geography|year=2002|volume=78|pages=361–386|doi=10.2307/4140814|issue=3|ref=harv}}</ref> Globalizing processes affect and are affected by ] and ] organization, ], ]-] resources, and the ].


In 2000, the ] (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and ], ] and ] movements, ] and movement of people, and the dissemination of knowledge.<ref name="12th April 2000: IMF Publications">{{Cite web|url=http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200to.htm|title=Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?|date=12 April 2000|publisher=International Monetary Fund|url-status=live|access-date=28 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818185451/http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200to.htm|archive-date=18 August 2017}}</ref> Globalizing processes affect and are affected by ] and ] organization, economics, sociocultural resources, and the natural environment. Academic literature commonly divides globalization into three major areas: ], ], and ].<ref name="Ritzer2008-146">{{cite book|title=The Blackwell Companion to Globalization|last=Babones|first=Salvatore|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2008|isbn=978-0-470-76642-2|editor-last=Ritzer|editor-first=George|location=Malden|page=146|chapter=Studying Globalization: Methodological Issues|oclc=232611725|chapter-url={{google books|id=XKnmvRATtfAC|page=146|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref>
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Proponents of globalization point to ] and broader societal development as benefits, while opponents claim globalizing processes are detrimental to social well-being due to ], environmental consequences, and other potential drawbacks.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-01 |title=6 Pros and Cons of Globalization in Business to Consider |url=https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/pros-and-cons-of-globalization |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=Business Insights Blog |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Weighing the Pros and Cons of Globalization {{!}} Wilson Center |url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/weighing-the-pros-and-cons-globalization |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=www.wilsoncenter.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Overview==
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Between 1990 and 2010, globalisation progressed rapidly, driven by the information and communication technology revolution that lowered communication costs, along with trade liberalisation and the shift of manufacturing operations to emerging economies (particularly China). <ref>{{Cite book |last=Bank |first=European Investment |url=https://www.eib.org/en/publications/20240179-navigating-supply-chain-disruptions |title=Navigating supply chain disruptions: New insights into the resilience and transformation of EU firms |date=2024-10-03 |publisher=European Investment Bank |isbn=978-92-861-5807-0 |language=EN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Globalisation, automation and the history of work: Looking back to understand the future |url=https://unctad.org/news/globalisation-automation-and-history-work-looking-back-understand-future |website=UNCTAD}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Global Trade Liberalization and the Developing Countries -- An IMF Issues Brief |url=https://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2001/110801.htm |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=www.imf.org}}</ref>
Humans have interacted over long distances for thousands of years. The overland ] that connected ], ], and ] is a good example of the transformative power of translocal exchange that existed in the "]". Philosophy, religion, language, the arts, and other aspects of culture spread and mixed as nations exchanged products and ideas. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Europeans made important discoveries in their exploration of the oceans, including the start of transatlantic travel to the "]" of the ]. Global movement of people, goods, and ideas expanded significantly in the following centuries. Early in the 19th century, the development of new forms of transportation (such as the ] and ]) and ]s that "compressed" time and space allowed for increasingly rapid rates of global interchange.<ref name="When Did Globalization Begin">O'Rourke, Kevin H. and Jeffrey G. Williamson. (2000). "When Did Globalization Begin?" </ref> In the 20th century, ]s, ], and ]s made transportation even faster. The advent of electronic communications, most notably ] and ], connected billions of people in new ways by the year 2010.
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==Etymology and usage==
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The word globalization was used in the English language as early as the 1930s, but only in the context of education, and the term failed to gain traction. Over the next few decades, the term was occasionally used by other scholars and media, but it was not clearly defined.<ref name="tandfonline.com" /> One of the first usages of the term in the meaning resembling the later, was by French economist ] in his essays from the early 1960s (in his French works he used the term "''mondialisation''" (literarly worldization in ]), also translated as mundialization).<ref name="tandfonline.com" /> ] is often credited with popularizing the term and bringing it into the mainstream business audience in the later in the middle of 1980s.<ref name="tandfonline.com" />
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Though often treated as synonyms, in French, globalization is seen as a stage following mondialisation, a stage that implies the dissolution of national identities and the abolishment of borders inside the world network of economic exchanges.<ref>{{cite journal
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The term ''globalization'' is derived from the word ''globalize'', which refers to the emergence of an international network of social and economic systems.<ref>{{cite web|title=Globalization|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=globalization|publisher=Online Etymology Dictionary|accessdate=7 July 2012}}</ref> One of the earliest known usages of the term as a noun was in a 1930 publication entitled, ''Towards New Education'', where it denoted a holistic view of human experience in education.<ref name=oed>{{cite web|title=Globalization|work=Oxford English Dictionary Online|url=http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50297775?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=Globalization&first=1&max_to_show=10|date=September 2009|accessdate=5 November 2010}}</ref> A related term, ''corporate giants'', was coined by ] in 1897<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pastor-russell.com/volumes/V4/Study_07.html |title=''The Battle of Armageddon'', October 1897 pages 365–370 |publisher=Pastor-russell.com |accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> to refer to the largely national trusts and other large enterprises of the time. By the 1960s, both terms began to be used as synonyms by economists and other social scientists. It then reached the mainstream press in the later half of the 1980s. Since its inception, the concept of globalization has inspired competing definitions and interpretations, with antecedents dating back to the great movements of trade and empire across Asia and the Indian Ocean from the 15th century onwards.<ref>Hopkins, A.G. (ed.). (2004). ''Globalization in World History.'' London: Norton, pp. 4–8. ISBN 978-0393979428</ref><ref name="Bakari13">{{cite journal|last=Bakari|first=Mohamed El-Kamel|title=Globalization and Sustainable Development: False Twins?|journal=New Global Studies|volume=7|issue=3|pages=23–56|issn=1940-0004}}</ref>
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Due to the complexity of the concept, research projects, articles, and discussions often remain focused on a single aspect of globalization.<ref name=GCSP />
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Since its inception, the concept of globalization has inspired competing definitions and interpretations. Its antecedents date back to the great movements of trade and empire across Asia and the Indian Ocean from the 15th century onward.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Globalization in World History|publisher=Norton|year=2002|isbn=0-393-97942-3|editor-last=Hopkins|editor-first=Antony G.|location=New York|pages=|oclc=50028410|url=https://archive.org/details/globalizationinw00agho/page/4}}</ref><ref name="Bakari13">{{cite journal|last=Bakari|first=Mohamed El-Kamel|title=Globalization and Sustainable Development: False Twins?|journal=New Global Studies|volume=7|issue=3|pages=23–56|issn=1940-0004|doi=10.1515/ngs-2013-021|year=2013|s2cid=154786395}}</ref>
], professor of sociology at University of Aberdeen, an early writer in the field, defined globalization in 1992 as:
{{quote|...the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole.<ref>{{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Roland|title=Globalization : social theory and global culture|year=1992|publisher=Sage|location=London|isbn=0803981872|edition=Reprint.}}</ref>}}


In 1848, ] noticed the increasing level of national inter-dependence brought on by ], and predicted the universal character of the modern world society. He states:
Sociologists ] and Elizabeth King define globalization as:
{{blockquote|text= The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. . . . In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations.<ref>{{cite book |author=Karl Marx |author2=Friedrich Engels |title=The Communist Manifesto|pages=47–103|publisher=Pluto Press|doi=10.2307/j.ctt1k85dmc.4 |jstor=j.ctt1k85dmc |isbn=978-1-78680-025-1 |chapter=Manifesto of the Communist Party|year=2017|s2cid=53056560 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/context/prism/article/1079/viewcontent/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Party.pdf }}</ref>}}
{{quote|...all those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society.<ref name=Albrow>p. 8.</ref>}}


Sociologists ] and Elizabeth King define globalization as "all those processes by which the people of the world are incorporated into a single world society."<ref name="Albrow" /> In ''The Consequences of Modernity'', ] writes: "Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide ]s which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Consequences of Modernity|last=Giddens|first=Anthony|publisher=Polity Press|year=1990|isbn=0-7456-0793-4|location=Cambridge|page=64|oclc=22305142}}</ref> In 1992, ], professor of sociology at the ] and an early writer in the field, described globalization as "the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/globalizationsoc0000robe|title=Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture|last=Robertson|first=Roland|publisher=Sage|year=1992|isbn=978-0-8039-8187-4|edition=Reprint.|location=London|oclc=28634687|url-access=registration}}</ref>
In ''The Consequences of Modernity'', ] uses the following definition:
{{quote|Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.<ref>Giddens, Anthony. (1991). ''The Consequences of Modernity'' Cambridge: Polity Press. p. 64. ISBN 9780745609232</ref>}}


In ''Global Transformations'' ], et al., study the definition of globalization: In ''Global Transformations'', ] and his co-writers state:
{{quote|Although in its simplistic sense globalization refers to the widening, deepening and speeding up of global interconnection, such a definition begs further elaboration. ... Globalization can be located on a continuum with the local, national and regional. At one end of the continuum lie social and economic relations and networks which are organized on a local and/or national basis; at the other end lie social and economic relations and networks which crystallize on the wider scale of regional and global interactions. Globalization can refer to those spatial-temporal processes of change which underpin a transformation in the organization of human affairs by linking together and expanding human activity across regions and continents. Without reference to such expansive spatial connections, there can be no clear or coherent formulation of this term. ... A satisfactory definition of globalization must capture each of these elements: extensity (stretching), intensity, velocity and impact.<ref>Held, David, et al. (1999). ''Global Transformations'' Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745614984</ref>}} {{blockquote|text=Although in its simplistic sense globalization refers to the widening, deepening and speeding up of global interconnection, such a definition begs further elaboration. ... Globalization can be on a continuum with the local, national and regional. At one end of the continuum lie social and economic relations and networks which are organized on a local and/or national basis; at the other end lie social and economic relations and networks which crystallize on the wider scale of regional and global interactions. Globalization can refer to those spatial-temporal processes of change which underpin a transformation in the organization of human affairs by linking together and expanding human activity across regions and continents. Without reference to such expansive spatial connections, there can be no clear or coherent formulation of this term. ... A satisfactory definition of globalization must capture each of these elements: extensity (stretching), intensity, velocity and impact.<ref>Held, David; Goldblatt, David; McGrew, Anthony; Perraton, Jonathan (1999). ''Global Transformations'' Cambridge: Polity Press. {{ISBN|978-0-7456-1498-4}}</ref>|sign=|source=|}}


Held and his co-writers' definition of globalization in that same book as "transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions—assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact—generating transcontinental or inter-regional flows" was called "probably the most widely-cited definition" in the 2014 ].<ref name="DHL">{{cite web|url=http://www.dhl.com/content/dam/Campaigns/gci2014/downloads/dhl_gci_2014_study_high.pdf|title=DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014|date=11 March 2014|publisher=]|access-date=31 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202020111/http://www.dhl.com/content/dam/Campaigns/gci2014/downloads/dhl_gci_2014_study_high.pdf|archive-date=2 February 2015}}</ref>
Swedish journalist ], in his book ''The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization'', states that globalization:
{{quote|is the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit, with somebody on the other side of the world.<ref>Larsson, Thomas. (2001). ''The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization'' Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute. p. 9. ISBN 978-1930865150</ref>}}


Swedish journalist Thomas Larsson, in his book ''The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization'', states that globalization:
The journalist ] popularized the term ], arguing that ], ], ], and political forces had permanently changed the world, for better and worse. He asserted that the pace of globalization was quickening and that its impact on business organization and practice would continue to grow.<ref>Friedman, Thomas L. "The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention". ''Emerging: A Reader.'' Ed. Barclay Barrios. Boston: Bedford, St. Martins, 2008. 49</ref>


{{blockquote|...is the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit, with somebody on the other side of the world.<ref>Larsson, Thomas. (2001). ''The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization'' Washington, DC: Cato Institute. p. 9. {{ISBN|978-1-930865-15-0}}</ref>}}
Economist ] defined "economic globalization" as the opening and deregulation of commodity, capital and labor markets that led toward present ] globalization. He used "political globalization" to refer to the emergence of a transnational elite and a phasing out of the ]. "]", he used to reference the worldwide homogenization of culture. Other of his usages included "] globalization", "] globalization" and "] globalization".<ref>Fotopoulos, Takis. (2001). "Globalization, the reformist Left and the Anti-Globalization 'Movement.'" </ref>


] defines globalization with a more direct and historically contextualized emphasis:
In 2000, the ] (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: ] and ], ] and ] movements, ] and movement of people and the dissemination of ].<ref name="12th April 2000: IMF Publications"/> With regards to trade and transactions, developing countries increased their share of world trade, from 19 percent in 1971 to 29 percent in 1999. However, there is great variation among the major regions. For instance, the ] (NIEs) of Asia prospered, while African countries as a whole performed poorly. The makeup of a country's exports is an important indicator for success. Manufactured goods exports soared, dominated by developed countries and NIEs. Commodity exports, such as food and raw materials were often produced by developing countries: commodities' share of total exports declined over the period.


<blockquote>Globalization is the extension of social relations across world-space, defining that world-space in terms of the historically variable ways that it has been practiced and socially understood through changing world-time.<ref name=James2005>{{Cite journal | year=2005 | last=James |first=Paul | title= Arguing Globalizations: Propositions Towards an Investigation of Global Formation | url= https://www.academia.edu/5246805 | journal= Globalizations | volume= 2 | issue= 2 | pages=193–209 | doi=10.1080/14747730500202206| bibcode=2005Glob....2..193J | s2cid=146553776 }}</ref></blockquote>
Following from this, capital and investment movements can be highlighted as another basic aspect of globalization. Private capital flows to developing countries soared during the 1990s, replacing "aid" or "development assistance" which fell significantly after the early 1980s. ] (FDI) became the most important category. Both portfolio investment and bank credit rose but they have been more volatile, falling sharply in the wake of the financial crisis of the late 1990s. The ] and movement of people can also be highlighted as a prominent feature of the globalization process. In the period between 1965–90, the proportion of the labor forces migrating approximately doubled. Most migration occurred between developing countries and ] (LDCs).<ref name =Saggi2002>Saggi, Kamal (2002). "Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and International Technology Transfer: A Survey." ''World Bank Research Observer'', 17 (2): 191–235. {{DOI|10.1093/wbro/17.2.191}}</ref>


], professor of ] and research leader in the ] at ], identifies five ]: economic, political, cultural, ecological, and ideological. The ideological dimension, according to Steger, is filled with a range of norms, claims, beliefs, and narratives about the phenomenon itself.<ref>{{cite book|last=Steger|first=Manfred|title=Globalization: A Very Short Introduction|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-955226-9|page=11}}</ref> ], professor of ] and research leader in the ] at ], identifies four main empirical ]: economic, political, cultural, and ]. A fifth dimension—the ideological—cutting across the other four. The ideological dimension, according to Steger, is filled with a range of ], claims, beliefs, and narratives about the phenomenon itself.<ref>{{cite book|title=Globalization: A Very Short Introduction|last=Steger|first=Manfred|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-19-955226-9|location=New York|page=11}}</ref>


James and Steger stated that the concept of globalization "emerged from the intersection of four interrelated sets of ']' (], 1998): academics, journalists, publishers/editors, and librarians."<ref name="tandfonline.com" />{{Rp|424}} They note the term was used "in education to describe the global life of the mind"; in ] to describe the extension of the ], and in journalism to describe how the "American Negro and his problem are taking on a global significance".<ref name="tandfonline.com" /> They have also argued that four forms of globalization can be distinguished that complement and cut across the solely empirical dimensions.<ref name=James2005/><ref>{{Cite journal|year=2013|title=Levels of Subjective Globalization: Ideologies, Imaginaries, Ontologies|url=https://www.academia.edu/4311113|journal=Perspectives on Global Development and Technology|volume=12|issue=1–2|author1=Manfred B. Steger|author2=Paul James}}</ref> According to James, the oldest dominant form of globalization is embodied globalization, the movement of people. A second form is agency-extended globalization, the circulation of agents of different institutions, organizations, and ], including ] agents. Object-extended globalization, a third form, is the movement of ] and other objects of exchange. He calls the transmission of ideas, images, knowledge, and information across world-space disembodied globalization, maintaining that it is currently the dominant form of globalization. James holds that this series of distinctions allows for an understanding of how, today, the most embodied forms of globalization such as the movement of ]s and ] are increasingly restricted, while the most disembodied forms such as the circulation of financial instruments and codes are the most ].<ref>{{Cite journal|year=2014|title=Faces of Globalization and the Borders of States: From Asylum Seekers to Citizens|url=https://www.academia.edu/7773440|journal=Citizenship Studies|volume=18|issue=2|pages=208–23|doi=10.1080/13621025.2014.886440|last1=James|first1=Paul|s2cid=144816686}}</ref>
==History==
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{{See also|Timeline of international trade}}


The journalist ] popularized the term ], arguing that ], ], ], and political forces had permanently changed the world, for better and worse. He asserted that the pace of globalization was quickening and that its impact on business organization and practice would continue to grow.<ref>Friedman, Thomas L. "The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention". ''Emerging: A Reader.'' Ed. Barclay Barrios. Boston: Bedford, St. Martins, 2008. 49</ref>
There are both ] which can be traced in the historical factors affecting globalization. Large-scale globalization began in the 19th century.<ref name="When Did Globalization Begin"/>


Economist ] defined "economic globalization" as the opening and deregulation of ], ], and ] that led toward present ] globalization. He used "political globalization" to refer to the emergence of a transnational ] and a phasing out of the ]. Meanwhile, he used "cultural globalization" to reference the worldwide homogenization of culture. Other of his usages included "] globalization", "] globalization", and "social globalization".<ref>Fotopoulos, Takis. (2001). "Globalization, the reformist Left and the Anti-Globalization 'Movement.'" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426000403/http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol7/takis_globalisation.htm |date=26 April 2009 }}</ref>
===Archaic===
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Lechner and Boli (2012) define globalization as more people across large distances becoming connected in more and different ways.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Globalization Reader|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2012|isbn=978-0-470-65563-4|editor-last=Lechner|editor-first=Frank J.|edition=4th|location=Chichester|oclc=723530747|editor-last2=Boli|editor-first2=John}}</ref>
] is seen as a phase in the ] conventionally referring to globalizing events and developments from the time of the earliest civilizations until roughly the 1600s. This term is used to describe the relationships between communities and states and how they were created by the geographical spread of ideas and social norms at both local and regional levels.<ref name="M 45">{{cite book|last=Martell|first=Luke|title=The Sociology of Globalization|year=2010|publisher=Policy Press.}}</ref>


"Globophobia" is used to refer to the fear of globalization, though it can also mean the ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/beyond-globophobia|title=Beyond Globophobia|last1=Henwood|first1=Doug|date=13 November 2003|work=]|issn=0027-8378|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029140242/http://www.thenation.com/article/beyond-globophobia|archive-date=29 October 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Clark|first1=Ross|title=Globophobia|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/12049/globophobia-17/|work=]|date=20 March 2004|access-date=29 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222124856/http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/12049/globophobia-17/|archive-date=22 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="Ritzer2008">{{cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=XKnmvRATtfAC|page=16}}|title=The Blackwell Companion to Globalization|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2008|isbn=978-0-470-76642-2|editor=Ritzer|editor-first=George|editor-link=George Ritzer|location=Malden|pages=16–|oclc=232611725}}</ref>
In this schema, three main prerequisites are posited for globalization to occur. The first is the idea of Eastern Origins, which shows how Western states have adapted and implemented learned principals from the East.<ref name="M 45"/> Without the traditional ideas from the East, Western globalization would not have emerged the way it did. The second is distance. The interactions amongst states were not on a global scale and most often were confined to Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and certain parts of Europe.<ref name="M 45"/> With early globalization it was difficult for states to interact with others that were not within close proximity. Eventually, technological advances allowed states to learn of others existence and another phase of globalization was able to occur. The third has to do with ], stability and regularity. If a state is not depended on another then there is no way for them to be mutually affected by one another. This is one of the driving forces behind global connections and trade; without either globalization would not have emerged the way it did and states would still be dependent on their own production and resources to function. This is one of the arguments surrounding the idea of early globalization. It is argued that archaic globalization did not function in a similar manner to modern globalization because states were not as interdependent on others as they are today.<ref name="M 45"/>


==History==
Also posited is a 'multi-polar' nature to archaic globalization, which involved the active participation of non-Europeans. Because it predated the ] of the nineteenth century, in which ] pulled ahead of the rest of the world in terms of industrial production and economic output, archaic globalization was a phenomenon that was driven not only by ] but also by other economically developed ] centers such as ], ], coastal China and ].<ref>{{cite book|last=]|first=Hans|title=Globality versus Democracy: The Changing Nature of International Relations in the Era of Globalization|year=2000|publisher=International Progress Organization|location=Vienna|page=35}}</ref>
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{{For timeline|Timeline of international trade}}


There are both ] which can be traced in the historical factors affecting globalization. Large-scale globalization began in the 19th century.<ref name="When Did Globalization Begin">{{cite journal |last1=O'Rourke |first1=Kevin H. |first2=Jeffrey G. |last2=Williamson |s2cid=15767303 |year=2002 |title=When Did Globalization Begin? |journal=European Review of Economic History |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=23–50 |doi=10.1017/S1361491602000023 }}</ref>
The ] historical ] and ] ] argues that a form of globalization began with the rise of trade links between ] and the ] in the ] ] This ] existed during the ], when commercialized urban centers enveloped the axis of ] culture that reached from ] to ], including ] and the other ] cities. Early on, the geographic position of Greece and the necessity of ]ing wheat forced the Greeks to engage in maritime trade. Trade in ancient Greece was largely unrestricted: the state controlled only the supply of grain.<ref name=GL-H-09>Frank, Andre Gunder. (1998). ''ReOrient: Global economy in the Asian age.'' Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520214743</ref>
] crops ]: Maize, tomato, potato, ], rubber, ], tobacco]]


===Early Modern=== ===Archaic===
{{Main|Proto-globalization}} {{Main|Archaic globalization}}
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Archaic globalization conventionally refers to a phase in the history of globalization including globalizing events and developments from the time of the earliest ]s until roughly the 1600s. This term is used to describe the relationships between communities and ] and how they were created by the geographical spread of ideas and social norms at both local and regional levels.<ref name="M 45">{{cite book|last=Martell|first=Luke|title=The Sociology of Globalization|year=2010|publisher=Policy Press.}}</ref>
']-' or 'proto-globalization' covers a period of the ] roughly spanning the years between 1600 and 1800. The concept of 'proto-globalization' was first introduced by historians ] and ]. The term describes the phase of increasing trade links and cultural exchange that characterized the period immediately preceding the advent of high 'modern globalization' in the late 19th century.<ref>Hopkins, A.G., ed., 2003. Globalization in World History. New York City, NY: Norton. ISBN 0-393-97942-3 pp. 4–5, 7</ref> This phase of globalization was characterized by the rise of maritime European empires, in the 16th and 17th centuries, first the ] and ]s, and later the ] and ]s. In the 17th century, world trade developed further when ] like the ] (founded in 1600) and the ] (founded in 1602, often described as the first ] in which stock was offered) were established.<ref>Chaudhuri, K.N. (1965\1999). ''The English East India Company: The Study of an Early Joint-stock Company 1600–1640 (Vol. 4).'' London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press.</ref>


In this schema, three main prerequisites are posited for globalization to occur. The first is the idea of Eastern Origins, which shows how ] have adapted and implemented learned principles from the ].<ref name=" M 45"/> Without the spread of traditional ideas from the East, Western globalization would not have emerged the way it did. The interactions of states were not on a global scale and most often were confined to Asia, ], the ], and certain parts of Europe.<ref name=" M 45"/> With early globalization, it was difficult for states to interact with others that were not close. Eventually, technological advances allowed states to learn of others' existence and thus another phase of globalization can occur. The third has to do with inter-dependency, stability, and regularity. If a state is not dependent on another, then there is no way for either state to be mutually affected by the other. This is one of the driving forces behind global connections and trade; without either, globalization would not have emerged the way it did and states would still be dependent on their own ] and resources to work. This is one of the arguments surrounding the idea of early globalization. It is argued that archaic globalization did not function in a similar manner to modern globalization because states were not as interdependent on others as they are today.<ref name="M 45"/>
Early modern globalization is distinguished from modern globalization on the basis of expansionism, the method of managing global trade, and the level of information exchange. The period is marked by such trade arrangements as the ], the shift of ] to Western Europe, the rise of larger-scale conflicts between powerful nations such as the Thirty Year War, and a rise of new commodities – most particularly ]. ] made it possible for Europe to take advantage of resources within the western hemisphere. The transfer of plant and animal crops and epidemic diseases associated with ]'s concept of ] also played a central role in this process. Early modern trade and communications involved a vast group including ]an, ], ]n, ]n and ] merchants, particularly in the ] region.


Also posited is a "multi-polar" nature to archaic globalization, which involved the active participation of non-Europeans. Because it predated the ] in the nineteenth century, where ] pulled ahead of the rest of the world in terms of ] and ], archaic globalization was a phenomenon that was driven not only by Europe but also by other economically developed ] centers such as ], ], coastal ], and ].<ref>{{cite book|last=]|first=Hans|title=Globality versus Democracy: The Changing Nature of International Relations in the Era of Globalization|year=2000|publisher=International Progress Organization|location=Vienna|page=35}}</ref>
] became the first global economic superpower, because of superior manufacturing technology and improved global communications such as ]s and railroads.]]
] in ], 17th-century Japanese ]]]


The German ] and sociologist ] argues that a form of globalization began with the rise of trade links between ] and the ] in the third millennium ]. This archaic globalization existed during the ], when commercialized urban centers enveloped the axis of ] culture that reached from India to Spain, including ] and the other ] cities. Early on, the geographic position of Greece and the necessity of importing wheat forced the Greeks to engage in maritime trade. Trade in ancient Greece was largely unrestricted: the state controlled only the supply of grain.<ref name="GL-H-09">Frank, Andre Gunder. (1998). ''ReOrient: Global economy in the Asian age.'' Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN|978-0-520-21474-3}}</ref>
===Modern===
{{Main|History of globalization}}


] in the 1st century]]
During the 19th century, globalization approached its modern form as a result of the ]. Industrialization allowed ] production of household items using economies of scale while rapid population growth created sustained demand for commodities. Globalization in this period was decisively shaped by nineteenth-century imperialism. In the 19th century, ] reduced the cost of international transport significantly and ] made inland transport cheaper. The transport revolution occurred some time between 1820 and 1850.<ref name="When Did Globalization Begin"/> More nations embraced international trade.<ref name="When Did Globalization Begin"/> Globalization in this period was decisively shaped by nineteenth-century ] such as in ] and ]. The invention of ] in 1956 helped advance the globalization of commerce.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9383.html|title=Sample Chapter for Levinson, M.: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.|last=Levinson|first=Marc|work=]|publisher=Princeton University Press|accessdate=17 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/how-the-invention-of-a-box-changed-our-world/2006/06/11/1149964409162.html%0A|title=How the invention of a box changed our world – Business – smh.com.au|last=Gittins|first=Ross|work=]|accessdate=17 February 2013|date=12 June 2006}}</ref>
] crops ] (]): Maize, tomato, potato, ], rubber, ], tobacco]]
Trade on the ] was a significant factor in the development of civilizations from China, the ], ], Europe, and ], opening long-distance political and economic interactions between them.<ref>Jerry Bentley, Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 32.</ref> Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, common goods such as salt and sugar were traded as well; and ]s, ] philosophies, and various technologies, as well as diseases, also traveled along the Silk Routes. In addition to economic trade, the Silk Road served as a means of carrying out cultural trade among the civilizations along its network.<ref>Jerry Bentley, Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 33.</ref> The movement of people, such as refugees, artists, craftsmen, ], robbers, and envoys, resulted in the exchange of religions, art, languages, and new technologies.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/legacy-silk-road | title = The Legacy of the Silk Road | publisher = Yale Global | date = 25 January 2013 | access-date = 31 March 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402075517/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/legacy-silk-road | archive-date = 2 April 2015 }}</ref> From around 3000 BCE to 1000 CE, connectivity within ] was centered upon the ] region, with the Silk Road later rising in importance with the Mongol Empire's consolidation of Asia in the 13th century.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Burke |first=Edmund |date=2009 |title=Islam at the Center: Technological Complexes and the Roots of Modernity |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40542756 |journal=Journal of World History |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=186 |issn=1045-6007 |jstor=40542756}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ghosh |first=Paramita |date=2024-03-12 |title=Building a new road |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2024/Mar/12/building-a-new-road-3 |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>


===Early modern===
After the Second World War, work by politicians led to the ], an agreement by major governments to lay down the framework for international monetary policy, commerce and finance, and the founding of several international institutions intended to facilitate economic growth multiple rounds of trade opening simplified and lowered trade barriers. Initially, the ] (GATT), led to a series of agreements to remove trade restrictions. GATT's successor was the ] (WTO), which created an institution to manage the trading system. Exports nearly doubled from 8.5% of total gross world product in 1970 to 16.2% in 2001.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/trade/tables/exports2.htm | title = World Exports as Percentage of Gross World Product | publisher=] | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080712023541/http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/trade/tables/exports2.htm | archivedate = 12 July 2008 | accessdate =11 November 2009}}</ref></s> The approach of using global agreements to advance trade stumbled with the failure of the ] of trade-negotiation. Many countries then shifted to bilateral or smaller multilateral agreements, such as the 2011 ].
{{Main|Proto-globalization}}


"]" or "proto-globalization" covers a period of the history of globalization roughly spanning the years between 1600 and 1800. The concept of "proto-globalization" was first introduced by historians ] and ]. The term describes the phase of increasing trade links and cultural exchange that characterized the period immediately preceding the advent of high "modern globalization" in the late 19th century.<ref>Hopkins, A.G., ed., 2003. Globalization in World History. New York City: Norton. {{ISBN|0-393-97942-3}} pp. 4–5, 7</ref> This phase of globalization was characterized by the rise of maritime European empires, in the 15th and 17th centuries, first the ] (1415) followed by the ] (1492), and later the ] and ]s. In the 17th century, world trade developed further when ] like the ] (founded in 1600) and the ] (founded in 1602, often described as the first ] in which ] was offered) were established.<ref>Chaudhuri, K.N. (1965\1999). ''The English East India Company: The Study of an Early Joint-stock Company 1600–1640 (Vol. 4).'' London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press.</ref>
Since the 1970s, aviation has become increasingly affordable to middle classes in developed countries. ] policies and ]s have helped to bring competition to the market. In the 1990s, the growth of low cost communication networks cut the cost of communicating between different countries. More work can be performed using a computer without regard to location. This included accounting, software development, and engineering design.
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An alternative view from historians Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez, postulated that: globalization began with the first circumnavigation of the globe under the ] which preluded the rise of ].<ref>China and the Birth of Globalization in the 16th Century, by Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5pFDQEACAAJ|title=The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565-1815|first1=Peter|last1=Gordon|first2=Juan José|last2=Morales|date=12 October 2017|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-7343-9943-4 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the connectedness of the world's economies and cultures grew very quickly. This slowed down from the 1910s onward due to the World Wars and the ] <ref></ref> but has picked up again since ] policies began in the 1980s and ] and the ]s of ] opened the old Eastern Bloc to western capitalism.<ref>Ritzer, George (2011). ''Globalization: The Essentials.'' NY: John Wiley & Sons.</ref> In the early 2000s, much of the industrialized world entered into the ],<ref>{{Cite news | url = http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/14/global-recession-2009-oped-cx_nr_0115roubini.html | title = A Global Breakdown Of The Recession In 2009 | author=Roubini, Nouriel | date = 15 January 2009 | work=Forbes | authorlink = Nouriel Roubini}}</ref> which may have slowed the process, at least temporarily.<ref>Faiola, Anthony. (2009). "A Global Retreat As Economies Dry Up." </ref><ref>Gjelten, Tom. (2009). "Economic Crisis Poses Threat To Global Stability." </ref><ref>Lodge, George C. (1995). ''Managing Globalization in the Age of Interdependence''. Golden Books Center: Kuala Lumpur. p.2.</ref>


Early modern globalization is distinguished from modern globalization on the basis of ], the method of managing global trade, and the level of information exchange. The period is marked by the shift of ] to Western Europe, the rise of larger-scale conflicts between powerful nations such as the ], and demand for commodities, most particularly ]. The ] made it possible for Europe to take advantage of resources within the ]. The transfer of animal stocks, plant crops, and epidemic diseases associated with ]'s concept of the ] also played a central role in this process. European, Middle Eastern, Indian, ]n, and Chinese merchants were all involved in early modern trade and communications, particularly in the Indian Ocean region.
Trade and globalization have evolved tremendously today. Globalized society offers a complex web of forces and factors that bring people, cultures, markets, beliefs and practices into increasingly greater proximity to one another.<ref>Sorrells, Kathryn. (2012). ''Intercultural Communication Globalization and Social Justice''. Thousand Oaks: Sage Pubs. ISBN 9781412927444</ref>


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===Modern===
===Global business organization===
According to economic historians ], Leandro Prados de la Escosura, and Guillaume Daudin, several factors promoted globalization in the period 1815–1870:<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-economic-history-of-modern-europe/trade-and-empire/BE789F27408634F4749D61F013897C04|title=Trade and empire (Chapter 4) – The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe|chapter=Trade and empire |website=Cambridge Core|date=2010 |volume=1 |pages=100–01|publisher=Cambridge University Press |language=en|access-date=2 March 2018|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511794834.006|isbn=978-0-521-88202-6|s2cid=155275323 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303050324/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-economic-history-of-modern-europe/trade-and-empire/BE789F27408634F4749D61F013897C04|archive-date=3 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
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* The conclusion of the ] brought in an era of relative peace in Europe.
With improvements in ] and communication, international business grew rapidly after the beginning of the 20th century. International business includes all commercial transactions (] ], ]s, ], and transportation) that take place between two or more ]s, ] and ]s beyond their political boundaries. Such ] is tied with firm performance and ], positively in the case of the former and often negatively in the case of the latter.<ref>{{cite journal
* Innovations in transportation technology reduced trade costs substantially.
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* A gradual move towards greater liberalization in European countries.
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During the 19th century, globalization approached its form as a direct result of the ]. ] allowed standardized production of household items using ] while rapid ] created sustained demand for commodities. In the 19th century, steamships reduced the cost of international transportation significantly and railroads made inland transportation cheaper. The ] occurred some time between 1820 and 1850.<ref name="When Did Globalization Begin" /> More nations embraced ].<ref name="When Did Globalization Begin" /> Globalization in this period was decisively shaped by nineteenth-century ] such as in ] and ].<ref name="Levinson" /><ref name=":3">{{cite news |last=Gittins |first=Ross |date=12 June 2006 |title=How the invention of a box changed our world – Business – smh.com.au |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/business/how-the-invention-of-a-box-changed-our-world/2006/06/11/1149964409162.html%0A |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114190140/http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/how-the-invention-of-a-box-changed-our-world/2006/06/11/1149964409162.html%0A |archive-date=14 November 2015 |access-date=17 February 2013 |work=]}}</ref>
International business arrangements have led to the formation of ] (MNE), companies that have a worldwide approach to markets and production or one with operations in more than one country. A MNE may also be called a multinational corporation (MNC) or transnational company (TNC). Well known MNCs include ] companies such as ] and ], vehicle manufacturers such as ], ] and ], consumer electronics companies like ], ] and ], and energy companies such as ], ] and ]. Most of the largest corporations operate in multiple national markets.


=== Contemporary ===
Businesses generally argue that survival in the new global marketplace requires companies to source ], ], ] and materials overseas to continuously upgrade their products and technology in order to survive increased competition.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Hitt |first= Michael A. |coauthors=Laszlo Tihanyi, Toyah Miller, Brian L. Connelly | title= International Diversification: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Moderators |journal= Journal of Management |volume= 32(6) |year= 2006 |pages= 831–867 |url= http://jom.sagepub.com/content/32/6/831.full.pdf |jstor= |doi= 10.1177/0149206306293575 |issue= 6 }}</ref>
After World War II, work by politicians led to the agreements of the ], in which major governments laid down the framework for ], commerce, and finance, and the founding of several ]s intended to facilitate economic growth by lowering ]s. Initially, the ] (GATT) led to a series of agreements to remove trade restrictions. GATT's successor was the ] (WTO), which provided a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements and a dispute resolution process. Exports nearly doubled from 8.5% of total gross world product in 1970 to 16.2% in 2001.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/trade/tables/exports2.htm | title = World Exports as Percentage of Gross World Product | publisher=] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080712023541/http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/trade/tables/exports2.htm | archive-date = 12 July 2008 | access-date =11 November 2009}}</ref> The approach of using global agreements to advance trade stumbled with the failure of the ] of trade negotiation. Many countries then shifted to bilateral or smaller multilateral agreements, such as the 2011 ].


The invention of shipping containers in 1956 helped advance the globalization of commerce.<ref name="Levinson" /><ref name=":3" /> Since the 1970s, ] has become increasingly affordable to ]es in ]. ] policies and ]s have helped to bring ] to the ]. In the 1990s, the growth of low-cost communication networks cut the cost of communicating between countries. More work can be performed using a computer without regard to location. This included accounting, software development, and engineering design.
====International trade====
{{Main|International trade}}


]s became popular after ], and are intended to increase the participants' understanding and tolerance of other cultures, as well as improving their language skills and broadening their social horizons. Between 1963 and 2006 the number of students studying in a foreign country increased 9 times.<ref name=varghese/>
], the top country in the ], embraced globalization and became a highly developed country]]


], the world's first commercial ], entered service in 1949.]]
] is the exchange of ], ], and ] across ] or territories.<ref></ref> In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of ] (GDP). ], advanced ]ation, ]s, ] and ] all have a major impact on world trade. The growth of international trade is a fundamental component of globalization.
Since the 1980s, modern globalization has spread rapidly through the expansion of capitalism and neoliberal ideologies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if all people mattered.|last1=Lourdes|first1=Benería|last2=Gunseli|first2=Berik|last3=Maria S.|first3=Floro|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-0-415-53748-3|location=New York|page=95}}</ref> The implementation of neoliberal policies has allowed for the privatization of public industry, deregulation of laws or policies that interfered with the free flow of the market, as well as cut-backs to governmental social services.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Shock Doctrine|title-link= The Shock Doctrine|last=Klein|first=Naomi|publisher=Vintage|year=2008|location=Canada|page=68}}</ref> These neoliberal policies were introduced to many developing countries in the form of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) that were implemented by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<ref name=":0" /> These programs required that the country receiving monetary aid would open its markets to capitalism, privatize public industry, allow free trade, cut social services like healthcare and education and allow the free movement of giant multinational corporations.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lourdes|first1=Benería|last2=Deere|first2=Carmen Diana |author-link3=Carmen Diana Deere|last3=Kabeer|first3=Naila|date=8 August 2012|title=Gender and International Migration: Globalization, Development and Governance|journal=Feminist Economics|volume=18|issue=2|pages=1–33|doi=10.1080/13545701.2012.688998|s2cid=144565818}}</ref> These programs allowed the World Bank and the IMF to become global financial market regulators that would promote neoliberalism and the creation of free markets for multinational corporations on a global scale.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rai|title=The History of International Development: Concepts and Contexts|journal=Women, Gender and Development Reader|page=15}}</ref>
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In the late 19th and early 20th century, the connectedness of the world's economies and cultures grew very quickly. This slowed down from the 1910s onward due to the World Wars and the ],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wolf|first=Martin|year=2001|title=Will the nation-state survive globalization?|journal=Foreign Affairs|volume=80|issue=1|pages=178–190|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2001-01-01/will-nation-state-survive-globalization|doi=10.2307/20050051|jstor=20050051|access-date=12 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911162328/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2001-01-01/will-nation-state-survive-globalization|archive-date=11 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> but picked up again in the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>Ritzer, George (2011). ''Globalization: The Essentials.'' NY: John Wiley & Sons.</ref> The ] and subsequent ] in many parts of the world resulted in a significant expansion of global interconnectedness. The migration and movement of people can also be highlighted as a prominent feature of the globalization process. In the period between 1965 and 1990, the proportion of the labor force migrating approximately doubled. Most migration occurred between the ] and ] (LDCs).<ref name =Saggi2002>{{cite journal | last1 = Saggi | first1 = Kamal | year = 2002 | title = Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and International Technology Transfer: A Survey | journal = World Bank Research Observer | volume = 17 | issue = 2| pages = 191–235 | doi = 10.1093/wbro/17.2.191 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.17.7732 | s2cid = 16620922 }}</ref> As economic integration intensified workers moved to areas with higher wages and most of the developing world oriented toward the international market economy. The collapse of the Soviet Union not only ended the Cold War's division of the world – it also left the United States its sole policeman and an unfettered advocate of free market.{{According to whom|date=February 2019}} It also resulted in the growing prominence of attention focused on the movement of diseases, the proliferation of popular culture and consumer values, the growing prominence of international institutions like the UN, and concerted international action on such issues as the environment and human rights.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The World Transformed 1945 to present|last=Hunt|first=Michael H.|year=2004|page=399}}</ref> Other developments as dramatic were the Internet's becoming influential in connecting people across the world; {{As of|2012|6}}, more than 2.4 billion people—over a third of the world's human population—have used the services of the Internet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.treese.org/intindex/95-11.htm |title=The Open Market Internet Index |publisher=Treese.org |date=11 November 1995 |access-date=15 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601045949/http://www.treese.org/intindex/95-11.htm |archive-date=1 June 2013 }}</ref><ref name="stats">{{cite web|url=http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm|title=World Stats|date=30 June 2012|work=Internet World Stats|publisher=Miniwatts Marketing Group|access-date=4 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623200007/http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm|archive-date=23 June 2011}}</ref> Growth of globalization has never been smooth. One influential event was the ], which was associated with lower growth (in areas such as ] and ] usage) or even temporarily negative growth (in areas such as trade) of global interconnectedness.<ref name="Signs of life">{{cite news | url = https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21632514-despite-some-recent-reversals-there-evidence-globalisation-march | title = Signs of life | newspaper = The Economist | date = 15 November 2014 | access-date = 29 August 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170902092234/https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21632514-despite-some-recent-reversals-there-evidence-globalisation-march | archive-date = 2 September 2017 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>Faiola, Anthony. (2009). "A Global Retreat As Economies Dry Up." {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204175739/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/04/AR2009030404221.html |date=4 December 2010 }}</ref>


The ], starting in 2018, negatively affected trade between the two largest national economies. The ] included a massive decline in tourism and international business travel as many countries temporarily closed borders. The ] resulted from temporary shutdowns of manufacturing and transportation facilities, and labor shortages. Supply problems incentivized some switches to domestic production.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html |title=Globalization is coming undone, and that's a huge red flag |author=Allison Morrow |date=May 24, 2022 |publisher=]}}</ref> The ] included a blockade of Ukrainian ports and ], resulting in some de-coupling of the Russian economy with global trade, especially with the European Union and other Western countries.
An ] exists when countries can produce a commodity with less costs per unit produced than could its trading partner. By the same reasoning, it should import commodities in which it has an absolute disadvantage.<ref name="ingham">{{cite book |title= International economics: a European focus |last= Ingham |first= Barbara |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= 2004 |publisher= Pearson Education |location= |isbn= 0-273-65507-8|page= 336 |url= http://books.google.com/?id=zIaS9R7HUGIC&printsec=frontcover#PPT37,M1 }}</ref> While there are possible ] with absolute advantage, ] – that is, the ability to offer goods and services at a lower ] and ] – extends the range of possible mutually beneficial exchanges. In a globalized business environment, companies argue that the comparative advantages offered by international trade have become essential to remaining competitive.


Modern consensus for the last 15 years regards globalization as having run its course and gone into decline.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Marcus |last2=Hayashi |first2=Yuka |date=2023-08-09 |title=Sputtering Trade Fuels Fears of a Fractured Global Economy |language=en-US |work=] |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/sputtering-trade-fuels-fears-for-a-connected-world-81c99922 |access-date=2023-11-03 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> A common argument for this is that trade has dropped since its peak in 2008, and never recovered since the ]. New opposing views from some economists have argued such trends are a result of price drops and in actuality, trade volume is increasing, especially with agricultural products, natural resources and refined petroleum.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zumbrun |first=Josh |title=Is Globalization in Decline? A New Number Contradicts the Consensus |url=https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/is-globalization-in-decline-a-new-number-contradicts-the-consensus-60df8ecf |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ganapati |first1=Sharat |last2=Wong |first2=Woan Foong |date=August 2023 |title=How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965–2020 |journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives |language=en |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=3–30 |doi=10.1257/jep.37.3.3 |issn=0895-3309|doi-access=free |hdl=10419/272042 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> The 21st century melting of the Arctic will also affect global trade, as it is paving the way for ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-25 |title=Melting Arctic ice could transform international shipping routes, study finds {{!}} Brown University |url=https://www.brown.edu/news/2022-06-22/arctic |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=www.brown.edu |language=en}}</ref>
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==Economic globalization==
Establishment of free trade areas has become an essential feature of modern governments to handle preferential trading arrangements with foreign and multinational entities.<ref>{{cite book
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Economic globalization is the increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-] movement of goods, services, technology, and capital.<ref name="Joshi, Rakesh Mohan 2009">Joshi, Rakesh Mohan, (2009) International Business, Oxford University Press, New Delhi and New York {{ISBN|0-19-568909-7}}.</ref> Whereas the globalization of business is centered around the diminution of international trade regulations as well as ]s, taxes, and other impediments that suppresses global trade, economic globalization is the process of increasing ] between countries, leading to the emergence of a global marketplace or a single world market.<ref>Riley, T: "Year 12 Economics", p. 9. Tim Riley Publications, 2005</ref> Depending on the paradigm, economic globalization can be viewed as either a positive or a negative phenomenon. Economic globalization comprises: globalization of production; which refers to the obtainment of goods and services from a particular source from locations around the globe to benefit from difference in cost and quality. Likewise, it also comprises globalization of markets; which is defined as the union of different and separate markets into a massive global marketplace. Economic globalization also includes<ref>{{Cite book|title=International business: competing in the global marketplace|last=Hill|first=Charles W.L.|publisher=McGraw-Hill|year=2014|isbn=978-0-07-811277-5|edition= 10th|location=New York|oclc=864808614}}</ref> competition, technology, and corporations and industries.<ref name="Joshi, Rakesh Mohan 2009"/>
A ] ('''SEZ''') is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than a country's typical or national laws. "Nationwide" laws may be suspended inside these special zones. The category 'SEZ' covers many areas, including ] (FTZ), Export Processing Zones (EPZ), ] (FZ), ]s or Industrial Estates (IE), ]s, Urban Enterprise Zones and others. Usually the goal of a structure is to increase ] by foreign investors, typically an ] or a ] (MNC). These are designated areas in which companies are taxed very lightly or not at all in order to encourage economic activity. Free ports have historically been endowed with favorable customs regulations, e.g., the free port of ]. Very often free ports constitute a part of free economic zones.


Current globalization trends can be largely accounted for by developed economies integrating with less developed economies by means of ], the reduction of trade barriers as well as other economic reforms, and, in many cases, immigration.<ref>{{Cite web|title=What Is Globalization?|url=https://www.piie.com/microsites/globalization/what-is-globalization|date=29 October 2018|website=PIIE|language=en|access-date=25 May 2020}}</ref>
A FTZ is an area within which goods may be landed, handled, manufactured or reconfigured, and reexported without the intervention of the customs authorities. Only when the goods are moved to consumers within the country in which the zone is located do they become subject to the prevailing ]. Free trade zones are organized around major seaports, international airports, and national frontiers – areas with many geographic advantages for trade.<ref> Definition of Free Trade Zone-Source-Britannica</ref> It is a region where a group of countries has agreed to reduce or eliminate trade barriers.<ref>{{cite book
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]s have made trade in goods and services more efficient. An example of such standard is the ]. ] dramatically reduced the costs of transportation, supported the post-war boom in ], and was a major element in globalization.<ref name="Levinson">{{cite web|url=http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9383.html|title=Sample Chapter for Levinson, M.: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.|last=Levinson|first=Marc|work=]|publisher=Princeton University Press|access-date=17 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122131825/http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9383.html|archive-date=22 January 2013}}</ref> International standards are set by the ], which is composed of representatives from various national ].
A ] is a ] whose member countries have signed a free-trade agreement, which eliminates ]s, ]s, and preferences on most (if not all) ] and services traded between them. If people are also free to move between the countries, in addition to a free-trade area, it would also be considered an ]. The ], for example, a confederation of 27 member states, provides both a free trade area and an open border.


A ], or worldwide enterprise,<ref name="pitelis">{{cite book|url={{google books|id=mXjeiQYR088C|plainurl=yes}}|title=The nature of the transnational firm|last=Pitelis|first=Christos|author2=Roger Sugden|publisher=Routledge|year=2000|isbn=978-0-415-16787-1|page=H72}}</ref> is an organization that owns or controls the production of goods or services in one or more countries other than their home country.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/mul.htm|title=Multinational Corporations|access-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414082055/http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/mul.htm|archive-date=14 April 2018}}</ref> It can also be referred to as an international corporation, a transnational corporation, or a stateless corporation.<ref>Roy D. Voorhees, Emerson L. Seim, and John I. Coppett, "Global Logistics and Stateless Corporations", ''Transportation Practitioners Journal'' 59, 2 (Winter 1992): 144–51.</ref>
] ('''QIZ''') are industrial parks that house manufacturing operations in ] and ]. They are a special free trade zones established in collaboration with neighboring ] to take advantage of the free trade agreements between the United States and ]. Under the trade agreements with Jordan as laid down by the United States, goods produced in QIZ-notified areas can directly access US markets without ] or ] restrictions, subject to certain conditions. To qualify, goods produced in these zones must contain a small portion of Israeli input. In addition, a minimum 35% value to the goods must be added to the finished product. The brainchild of Jordanian businessman Omar Salah, the first QIZ was authorized by the ] in 1997.


A ] is the region encompassing a ] whose member countries have signed a ] agreement (FTA). Such agreements involve cooperation between at least two countries to reduce trade barriers{{snd}} ]s and ]s{{snd}} and to increase trade of ] and services with each other.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = O'Sullivan| first1 = Arthur| author-link = Arthur O'Sullivan (economist)| first2 = Steven M. | last2 = Sheffrin| title = Economics: Principles in Action| publisher = Pearson Prentice Hall| year = 2003| location = Upper Saddle River, NJ| page = 453| isbn = 978-0-13-063085-8}}</ref>
The ] has been described as "the most integrated trading region on the planet" because its intra-regional trade accounts probably for as much as 50-60% of the region's total imports and exports.<ref></ref>
It has also extra-regional trade: consumer goods exports such as televisions, ]s, bicycles, and textiles into the United States, Europe, and Japan fueled the economic expansion.<ref>Vogel, Ezra F. 1991. ''The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.</ref>


If people are also free to move between the countries, in addition to a free-trade agreement, it would also be considered an ]. Arguably, the most significant free-trade area in the world is the ], a ]-] of ] that are primarily located in ]. The ] has developed ] through a standardized system of laws that apply in all member states. EU policies aim to ensure the ] within the internal market,<ref name="Europa Internal Market">{{cite web |title=The EU Single Market: Fewer barriers, more opportunities |publisher=Europa web portal |author=European Commission |url=http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/index_en.htm |access-date=27 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001122551/http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/index_en.htm |archive-date=1 October 2007 }}<br />{{cite web |title=Activities of the European Union: Internal Market |publisher=Europa web portal |url=http://europa.eu/pol/singl/index_en.htm |access-date=29 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625121825/http://europa.eu/pol/singl/index_en.htm |archive-date=25 June 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref>
The ]<ref></ref> is a ] agreement by the ] supporting local manufacturing in all ASEAN countries. The AFTA agreement was signed on 28 January 1992 in Singapore. When the AFTA agreement was originally signed, ASEAN had six members, namely, ], ], ], ], ] and ]. ] joined in 1995, ] and ] in 1997 and ] in 1999.


] looks at how procedures and controls governing the movement of goods across national borders can be improved to reduce associated cost burdens and maximize efficiency while safeguarding legitimate regulatory objectives.
====Tax havens====
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Global trade in services is also significant. For example, in India, ] has been described as the "primary engine of the country's development over the next few decades, contributing broadly to ] growth, employment growth, and poverty alleviation".<ref name="Kuruvilla 2008 39–72">{{cite journal|last1=Kuruvilla |first1=Sarosh |last2=Ranganathan |first2=Aruna |title=Economic Development Strategies And Macro- And Micro-Level Human Resource Policies: The Case Of India's "Outsourcing" Industry|journal=Industrial & Labor Relations Review|date=October 2008|volume=62|issue=1|pages=39–72|doi=10.1177/001979390806200103|citeseerx=10.1.1.662.425 |s2cid=12104735 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/15777592?story_id=E1_TVSSSVJN|access-date=16 April 2011|title=Outsourcing to Africa: The world economy calls &#124; The Economist|date=16 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511114732/http://www.economist.com/node/15777592?story_id=E1_TVSSSVJN|archive-date=11 May 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
A tax haven is a state, country or territory where certain ]es are levied at a low rate or not at all, which are used by businesses for ].<ref name="ssrn">Dharmapala, Dhammika und Hines Jr., James R. (2006) </ref> Individuals and/or corporate entities can find it attractive to establish ] or move themselves to areas with reduced or nil taxation levels. This creates a situation of ] among governments. Different ]s tend to be havens for different types of taxes and for different categories of people and companies.<ref>Moran Harari, Markus Meinzer and Richard Murphy (October 2012) ''Tax Justice Network''</ref> States that are ] or self-governing under ] have theoretically unlimited powers to enact tax laws affecting their territories, unless limited by previous international treaties. The central feature of a tax haven is that its laws and other measures can be used to evade or avoid the tax laws or regulations of other jurisdictions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Identifying_Tax_Havens_Jul_07.pdf |title=The Truth About Tax Havens&nbsp;– retrieved 28 December 2007 |format=PDF |accessdate=2011-03-22}}</ref> In its December 2008 report on the use of tax havens by American corporations,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-09-157|title=''International Taxation: Large U.S. Corporations and Federal Contractors with Subsidiaries in Jurisdictions Listed as Tax Havens or Financial Privacy Jurisdictions'' GAO:GAO-09-157 |publisher=]|date=December 18, 2008|accessdate=2009-01-21}}</ref> the US ] was unable to find a satisfactory definition of a tax haven but regarded the following characteristics as indicative of it: nil or nominal taxes; lack of effective exchange of tax information with foreign tax authorities; lack of transparency in the operation of legislative, legal or administrative provisions; no requirement for a substantive local presence; and self-promotion as an ].


]'s theoretical approach to globalization is a critique of Wallerstein's World Systems Theory. He believes that the global capital experienced today is due to a new and distinct form of globalization which began in the 1980s. Robinson argues not only are economic activities expanded across national boundaries but also there is a transnational fragmentation of these activities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Robinson|first=William I.|title=Globalization and the sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein: A critical appraisal|journal=International Sociology|volume=1–23}}</ref> One important aspect of Robinson's globalization theory is that production of goods are increasingly global. This means that one pair of shoes can be produced by six countries, each contributing to a part of the production process.
A 2012 report from the ] estimated that between USD $21 trillion and $32 trillion is ] from taxes in unreported tax havens worldwide. If such wealth earns 3% annually and such ]s were taxed at 30%, it would generate between $190 billion and $280 billion in tax revenues, more than any other tax shelter.<ref name=tjn12>Tax Justice Network (July 22, 2012) </ref> If such hidden offshore assets are considered, many countries with governments nominally in debt are shown to be net creditor nations.<ref name=cbc12>Canadian Broadcasting Co. (July 22, 2012) </ref> However, the tax policy director of the ] expressed skepticism over the accuracy of the figures.<ref>John Whiting, tax policy director at the UK's ] commented "There clearly are some significant amounts hidden away, but if it really is that size what is being done with it all?" and "If the suggestion is that such amounts are actively hidden and never accessed, that seems odd&nbsp;– not least in terms of what the tax authorities are doing. In fact, the US, UK and German authorities are doing a lot", and noting that if the figures were accurate "you would expect the havens to be more conspicuously wealthy than they are". However, he also admitted that "I cannot disprove the figures at all, but they do seem staggering" {{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18944097|title=Tax havens: Super-rich 'hiding' at least $21tn|date=2012-07-22|accessdate=2012-10-03|work=BBC News}}</ref> ] of the US-based ] says that the report also assumes, when considering notional lost tax revenue, that 100% money deposited offshore is evading payment of tax.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thesovereigninvestor.com/2012/07/30/fighting-anti-tax-haven-demagoguery-on-cnn/|title=Fighting Anti-Tax Haven Demagoguery on CNN|date=2012-07-30|accessdate=2012-10-03}}</ref>
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==Cultural globalization==
Tax havens have been criticized because they often result in the accumulation of idle cash<ref> ''Reuters'', July 16, 2013</ref> that is expensive and inefficient for companies to ].<ref> ''U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations'', October 11, 2011</ref> The ] benefits result in a ] disadvantaging the poor.<ref> ''U.S. Public Interest Research Group'', April 2012</ref> Many tax havens are thought to have connections to "fraud, money laundering and terrorism."<ref> ''New York Times'', May 5, 2012</ref> While investigations of illegal tax haven abuse have been ongoing, there have been few convictions.<ref> ''American News Project'', January 8, 2009</ref><ref> ''Daily Mirror'', November 3, 2012</ref> ] pertaining to tax havens and associated ] has also been criticized.<ref> ''Tax Justice Network'', April 5, 2012</ref> ]s' opinions on the propriety of tax havens have been evolving,<ref> ''Accountancy Age Debates'', January 14, 2013</ref> as have the opinions of their corporate users,<ref> ''Guardian'', January 28, 2013</ref> governments,<ref> ''New Statesman'', June 21, 2012</ref><ref>, ''Inter Press Service'', October 6, 2012</ref> and politicians,<ref> ''The Telegraph'', January 4, 2013</ref><ref> ''Reuters'', February 13, 2013</ref> although their use by ] companies<ref> ''Citizens for Tax Justice'', October 17, 2012</ref> and others remains widespread.<ref> ''Networking Seminars'', February 2013</ref> Reform proposals centering on the ] have been advanced.<ref> ''The Guardian'', December 10, 2012</ref> Some governments appear to be using computer ] to scrutinize some corporations' finances.<ref> ''The Atlantic'', August 17, 2012</ref>
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Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings, and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations.<ref>{{cite book|last=James|first=Paul|title=Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism|year=2006|publisher=Sage Publications|location=London|url=https://www.academia.edu/1642214|access-date=20 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429234210/https://www.academia.edu/1642214/Globalism_Nationalism_Tribalism_Bringing_Theory_Back_In_2006_|archive-date=29 April 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> This process is marked by the common consumption of cultures that have been diffused by the Internet, ] media, and international travel. This has added to processes of commodity exchange and colonization which have a longer history of carrying cultural meaning around the globe. The circulation of cultures enables individuals to partake in extended social relations that cross national and regional borders. The creation and expansion of such social relations is not merely observed on a material level. Cultural globalization involves the formation of shared norms and knowledge with which people associate their individual and collective cultural identities. It brings increasing interconnectedness among different populations and cultures.<ref>Manfred B. Steger and Paul James, 'Ideologies of Globalism', in Paul James and Manfred B. Steger, eds, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108143250/http://uws.academia.edu/PaulJames |date=8 November 2017 }}, Sage Publications, London, 2010. {{Cite book|title=The Anthropology of Globalization|last1=Inda|first1=Jonathan|last2=Rosaldo|first2=Renato|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2002|chapter=Introduction: A World in Motion}}</ref>
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] is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures. ] is a related field of study.
] is ] for ]al, ] or ] purposes. The ] defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".<ref>{{cite web|year=1995|url=http://pub.unwto.org/WebRoot/Store/Shops/Infoshop/Products/1034/1034-1.pdf|title=UNWTO technical manual: Collection of Tourism Expenditure Statistics|page=14|publisher=World Tourism Organization|accessdate=26 March 2009}}</ref> There are many forms of tourism such as ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].


] is the spread of ] items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages etc.
Globalization has made tourism a popular global leisure activity. The World Health Organization (]) estimates that up to 500,000 people are in flight at any one time.<ref>. ''The Guardian.'' 28 April 2009.</ref>
Cultural globalization has increased cross-cultural contacts, but may be accompanied by a decrease in the uniqueness of once-isolated communities. For example, ] is available in Germany as well as Japan, but ] outdraws the city of Paris, potentially reducing demand for "authentic" French pastry.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v25n3/globalization.pdf |title=Globalization and Culture |last1=Cowen |first1=Tyler |last2=Barber |first2=Benjamin |journal=Cato Policy Report |date=May–June 2003 |access-date=15 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119144402/http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v25n3/globalization.pdf |archive-date=19 November 2012 }}</ref><ref>Nadeem, S (2009) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620105537/http://nadeem.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2010/04/CS_Nadeem.pdf |date=20 June 2010 }}. Cultural Sociology</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hacker |first1=Violaine |title=Budovanie mediálneho priemyslu a podpora hodnotovo orientovanej spoločnosti v globalizácii: od chichotského výberu k pragmatickým výhodám EU občanov |trans-title=Building Medias Industry while Promoting a Community of Values in the Globalization: From Quixotic Choices to Pragmatic Boon for EU Citizens |journal=Politické vedy |date=2011 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=64–74 |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=22943 |language=English |issn=1335-2741}}</ref> Globalization's contribution to the alienation of individuals from their traditions may be modest compared to the impact of modernity itself, as alleged by ] such as ] and ]. Globalization has expanded recreational opportunities by spreading pop culture, particularly via the Internet and satellite television. The cultural diffusion can create a homogenizing force, where globalization is seen as synonymous with homogenizing force via connectedness of markets, cultures, politics and the desire for modernizations through imperial countries sphere of influence.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fangjun|first=Cao|date=1 September 2009|title=Modernization Theory and China's Road to Modernization|journal=Chinese Studies in History|volume=43|issue=1|pages=7–16|doi=10.2753/CSH0009-4633430101|s2cid=145504998|issn=0009-4633}}</ref>
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Religions were among the earliest cultural elements to globalize, being spread by force, migration, ], imperialists, and traders. ], ], ], and more recently sects such as ] are among those religions which have taken root and influenced endemic cultures in places far from their origins.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McAlister |first1=Elizabeth |title=Globalization and the Religious Production of Space |journal=Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |date=September 2005 |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=249–255 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-5906.2005.00283.x |url=https://digitalcollections.wesleyan.edu/object/relifp-21}}</ref>
As a result of the ], international ] suffered a strong slowdown from the second half of 2008 through the end of 2009. After a 5% increase in the first half of 2008, growth in international tourist arrivals moved into negative territory in the second half of 2008, and ended up only 2% for the year, compared to a 7% increase in 2007.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.unwto.org/facts/eng/pdf/barometer/UNWTO_Barom09_1_en.pdf|title=International tourism challenged by deteriorating global economy|publisher=]|journal=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer|date=January 2009|volume=7|issue=1|accessdate=17 November 2011 |ref=harv}}</ref> This negative trend intensified during 2009, exacerbated in some countries due to the outbreak of the ], resulting in a worldwide decline of 4.2% in 2009 to 880 million international tourists arrivals, and a 5.7% decline in international tourism receipts.<ref name=WTOaugust10>{{cite journal|url=http://www.unwto.org/facts/eng/pdf/barometer/UNWTO_Barom10_update_august_en.pdf|title=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer Interim Update|journal=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer|publisher=]|date=August 2010|accessdate=17 November 2011|ref=harv}}</ref> One notable exception to more free travel is travel from the ] to bordering countries ] and ], which had been semi-open borders. Now, by US law, travel to these countries requires a ].<ref></ref>


] of global society.]]
In 2010, international tourism reached ]919B, growing 6.5% over 2009, corresponding to an increase in ] of 4.7%.<ref>{{cite journal|title=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer June 2009|url=http://mkt.unwto.org/sites/all/files/pdf/unwto_pisa_2011_1.pdf|date=June 2011|publisher=World Tourism Organization|journal=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer|volume=7|issue=2|accessdate=3 August 2009|ref=harv}}</ref> In 2010, there were over 940 million international tourist arrivals worldwide.<ref name="WTO2011Highlights">{{cite journal |url=http://mkt.unwto.org/sites/all/files/docpdf/unwtohighlights11enlr.pdf|title=2011 Highlights |journal=UNWTO World Tourism Highlights |accessdate=9 January 2012|publisher=UNWTO |date=June 2011 |ref=harv}}</ref>
Globalization has ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/sport.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223201908/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/sport.jsp|title=Globalization and Sport: A Review by Susan Froetschel|archive-date=23 December 2016}}</ref> For example, the modern ] has ] from more than 200 nations participating in a variety of competitions.<ref name="EB">{{cite encyclopedia | title=Overview of Olympic Games | url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/428005/Olympic-Games | encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica | access-date=4 June 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430005519/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/428005/Olympic-Games | archive-date=30 April 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref> The ] is the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; a ninth of the entire population of the planet watched the ].<ref name="2006coverage">{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/marketing/news/newsid=111247/index.html |title=2006 FIFA World Cup broadcast wider, longer and farther than ever before |work=FIFA.com |publisher=] |date=6 February 2007 |access-date=11 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120073325/http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/marketing/news/newsid=111247/index.html |archive-date=20 January 2012 }}</ref><ref name="Dunmore2011">{{cite book|first=Tom |last=Dunmore|title=Historical Dictionary of Soccer|url={{google books|id=9j1wbp2t1usC|page=235|plainurl=yes}}|date=2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7188-5|page=235|quote=The World Cup is now the most-watched sporting event in the world on television, above even the Olympic Games.}}</ref><ref name="Wong2012">{{cite book|first=Glenn M. |last=Wong|title=The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports|url={{google books|id=qEELS7T_Tm0C|page=144|plainurl=yes}}|date=8 March 2012|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|isbn=978-1-4496-0203-1|pages=144–|quote=The World Cup is the most-watched sporting event in the world. In 2006, more than 30 billion viewers in 214 countries watched the World Cup on television, and more than 3.3 million spectators attended the 64 matches of the tournament.}}</ref>


The term globalization implies transformation. Cultural practices including traditional music can be lost or turned into a fusion of traditions. Globalization can trigger a state of emergency for the preservation of musical heritage. Archivists may attempt to collect, record, or transcribe repertoires before melodies are assimilated or modified, while local musicians may struggle for ] and to preserve local musical traditions. Globalization can lead performers to discard traditional instruments. Fusion genres can become interesting fields of analysis.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clayton |first1=Thomas |title="Competing Conceptions of Globalization" Revisited: Relocating the Tension between World-Systems Analysis and Globalization Analysis |journal=Comparative Education Review |date=August 2004 |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=274–294 |doi=10.1086/421180 |s2cid=56099753 |issn=0010-4086|url=https://uknowledge.uky.edu/lin_facpub/74 }}</ref>
====International sports====
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{{Main|Olympic Games|List of world championships}}


Music has an important role in economic and cultural development during globalization. Music genres such as jazz and reggae began locally and later became international phenomena. Globalization gave support to the ] phenomenon by allowing music from developing countries to reach broader audiences.<ref>Throsby, David (2002). "The music industry in the new millennium: Global and Local Perspectives." </ref> Though the term "World Music" was originally intended for ethnic-specific music, globalization is now expanding its scope such that the term often includes hybrid subgenres such as "world fusion", "global fusion", "ethnic fusion",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/ethnic-fusion-d224 |title=Ethnic fusion Music |website=Allmusic |access-date=20 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429235433/http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/ethnic-fusion-d224 |archive-date=29 April 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/worldbeat-d248 |title=Worldbeat |website=Allmusic |access-date=20 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503101554/http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/worldbeat-d248 |archive-date=3 May 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/world_fusion_800/en_US#contents_top |title=World Fusion Music |publisher=worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314022819/http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/world_fusion_800/en_US#contents_top |archive-date=14 March 2012 }}</ref>
Modern international sports events can be big business for as well as influencing the political, economical, and other cultural aspects of countries around the world. Especially with ], sports can affect countries, their identities, and in consequence, the world.
] has spread from the Americas to cuisines around the world, including ], ], ], and ].<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231072755/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/chili.jsp|date=31 December 2016}}, History of Globalization, YaleGlobal Online.</ref>]]


] claimed that the perception of consumption can be seen as self-identification and the formation of identity. Musically, this translates into each individual having their own musical identity based on likes and tastes. These likes and tastes are greatly influenced by culture, as this is the most basic cause for a person's wants and behavior. The concept of one's own culture is now in a period of change due to globalization. Also, globalization has increased the interdependency of political, personal, cultural, and economic factors.<ref>Beard, David and Keneth Gloag. 2005. Musicology: The Key Concepts. London and New York: Routledge.</ref>
The ancient ] were a series of competitions held between representatives of several ] and kingdoms from ], which featured mainly athletic but also combat and chariot racing events. During the Olympic games all struggles against the participating city-states were postponed until the games were finished.<ref>{{cite book|last=Swaddling|first=Judith|title=The Ancient Olympic Games|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|year=2000|edition=2|page=54|isbn=0-292-70373-2|oclc=10759486|url=http://books.google.com/?id=2-HQMnDiLqIC&printsec=frontcover#PPA54,M1|accessdate=6 June 2009}}</ref> The origin of these Olympics is shrouded in mystery and legend.<ref>Young (2004), p. 12</ref> During the 19th century Olympic Games became a popular global event.


A 2005 ] report<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/cscl/IntlFlows_EN.pdf |title=International Flows of Selected Goods and Services |access-date=31 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705155924/http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/cscl/IntlFlows_EN.pdf |archive-date=5 July 2010 }}</ref> showed that cultural exchange is becoming more frequent from Eastern Asia, but that Western countries are still the main exporters of cultural goods. In 2002, China was the third largest exporter of cultural goods, after the UK and US. Between 1994 and 2002, both North America's and the ]'s shares of cultural exports declined while Asia's cultural exports grew to surpass North America. Related factors are the fact that Asia's population and area are several times that of North America. Americanization is related to a period of high political American clout and of significant growth of America's shops, markets and objects being brought into other countries.
While some economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting the Olympic Games, emphasizing that such "mega-events" often have large costs, hosting (or even bidding for) the Olympics appears to increase the host country's exports, as the host or candidate country sends a signal about trade openness when bidding to host the Games.<ref>Rose, A. K., & Spiegel, M. M. (2011). The Olympic Effect*. ''The Economic Journal,'' 121(553), 652–677.</ref> Moreover, research suggests that hosting the Summer Olympics has a strong positive effect on the ] headquartered in the host city, which seems to benefit the local nonprofit sector. This positive effect begins in the years leading up to the Games and might persist for several years afterwards, although not permanently. This finding suggests that hosting the Olympics might create opportunities for cities to influence local corporations in ways that benefit the local nonprofit sector and civil society.<ref>.</ref> The Games have also had significant negative effects on host communities; for example, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions reports that the Olympics displaced more than two million people over two decades, often disproportionately affecting disadvantaged groups.<ref>Glynn, M. A. (2008). "Configuring the field of play: how hosting the Olympic Games impacts civic community." ''Journal of Management Studies'', 45(6), 1117–1146.</ref>


Some critics of globalization argue that it harms the diversity of cultures. As a dominating country's culture is introduced into a receiving country through globalization, it can become a threat to the diversity of local culture. Some argue that globalization may ultimately lead to ] or Americanization of culture, where the dominating cultural concepts of economically and politically powerful Western countries spread and cause harm to local cultures.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://aleteia.org/2018/04/11/why-do-we-need-religion-in-a-globalized-world/|title=Why do we need religion in a globalized world?|date=11 April 2018|work=Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture|access-date=12 April 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180412211940/https://aleteia.org/2018/04/11/why-do-we-need-religion-in-a-globalized-world/|archive-date=12 April 2018}}</ref>
Globalization has continually increased international competition in sports. The ], for example, is the world's most widely viewed sporting event; an estimated 700 million people watched the final match of the ] held in ].<ref>{{Cite news |title=700 million to watch World Cup Final |work=The Spy Report |publisher=Media Spy |date=12 July 2010 |url=http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/07/12/700-million-to-watch-world-cup-final/ |accessdate=12 July 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100715052728/http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/07/12/700-million-to-watch-world-cup-final/| archivedate= 15 July 2010 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref>


Globalization is a diverse phenomenon that relates to a multilateral political world and to the increase of cultural objects and markets between countries. The Indian experience particularly reveals the ] of the impact of cultural globalization.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ghosh |first1=Biswajit |title=Cultural Changes and Challenges in the Era of Globalization: The Case of India |journal=Journal of Developing Societies |date=June 2011 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=153–175 |doi=10.1177/0169796X1102700203 |s2cid=145494090 |issn=0169-796X}}</ref>
According to a 2011 A.T. Kearney study of sports teams, leagues and federations, the global sports industry is worth between €350 billion and €450 billion (]480-$620 billion).<ref></ref> This includes infrastructure construction, sporting goods, licensed products and live sports events.


] is defined as "seeing oneself in the other".<ref name="CS">Cuccioletta, Donald. , London Journal of Canadian Studies 2001/2002 Vol. 17, Plattsburgh State University of New York, Interdisciplinary Research Group on the Americas</ref> Transcultural<ref name=FD/> is in turn described as "extending through all ]s"<ref name="FD"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805221419/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/transcultural |date=5 August 2018 }}, thefreedictionary.com</ref> or "involving, encompassing, or combining elements of more than one ]".<ref name="YD"> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102032434/http://www.yourdictionary.com/transcultural |date=2 January 2018 }}, yourdictionary.com</ref> Children brought up in transcultural backgrounds are sometimes called ]s.
====Illicit international trade====
{{Main|Black market|Transnational organized crime}}
] reduced the world's rhino population by more than 90 percent over the past 40 years.<ref>"". ''Los Angeles Times''. September 16, 2012.</ref>]]


==Political globalization==
"]s" and ] often operate on a transnational basis, with global sales totaling almost ]2 trillion annually.<ref name="havocscope">{{cite web |url=http://www.havocscope.com/indexes/ |title=Black Market Products Index |work=Havocscope |postscript=.&nbsp;(Calculated by adding up the various black market activities that are currently being monitored )|accessdate=2013-01-10}}</ref>
{{Main|Political globalization}}
{{See also|Military globalization}}
] in ]]]


Political globalization refers to the growth of the worldwide ], both in size and complexity. That system includes national governments, their ] and ] as well as government-independent elements of ] such as ] and ]s. One of the key aspects of the political globalization is the declining importance of the ] and the rise of other actors on the political scene.
=====Drug trade=====
] has defined it as "the expansion of a global political system, and its institutions, in which inter-regional transactions (including, but certainly not limited to trade) are managed".<ref name="ModelskiDevezas2007">{{cite book|author1=George Modelski|author2=Tessaleno Devezas|author3=William R. Thompson|title=Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHKTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=20 December 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-97764-1|page=59}}</ref>
In 2010 the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (]) reported that the global drug trade generated more than ]320&nbsp;billion a year in revenues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2009/gashc3947.doc.htm |title=UN.org |publisher=United Nations |accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> Worldwide, the UN estimates there are more than 50 million regular users of heroin, cocaine and synthetic drugs.<ref>"". BBC News.</ref> The international trade of ] was second only to drug trafficking among smuggling "industries".<ref>"". San Francisco Chronicle. 11 November 2007.</ref> ] often incorporates ingredients from all parts of plants, the leaf, stem, flower, root, and also ingredients from animals and minerals. The use of parts of endangered species (such as ], ] horns, ] horns, and ] bones and claws) resulted in a ] of poachers who hunt restricted animals.<ref>"". Reuters. 17 September 2009.</ref><ref>"". New Scientist. 12 February 2003.</ref>
Political globalization is one of the three main dimensions of globalization commonly found in academic literature, with the two other being ] and ].<ref name="Ritzer2008-146"/>


] is a term in ] with two meanings. The first refers to a theory of regional integration originally proposed by ]; the second treats states and the national government as the primary factors for integration. ] is an approach in ] and ] that originated from studies on ]. Multi-level governance gives expression to the idea that there are many interacting authority structures at work in the emergent global political economy. It illuminates the intimate entanglement between the domestic and international levels of authority.
=====Human smuggling and trafficking=====
{{Main|Human trafficking}}
] by United States Forces Korea.]]


Some people are citizens of multiple nation-states. ], also called dual citizenship or multiple nationality or dual nationality, is a person's citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of more than one ] under the laws of those states.
] is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of ], ] or for the extraction of organs or tissues,<ref>{{cite web|url=Http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/trafficking/docs/news/organtrafficking_study.pdf |title=Human trafficking for organs, tissue removal |format=PDF |accessdate=2012-12-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fightslaverynow.org/why-fight-there-are-27-million-reasons/otherformsoftrafficking/organ-removal/ |title=Human trafficking for organs/tissue removal |publisher=Fightslaverynow.org |accessdate=2012-12-30}}</ref> including surrogacy and ova removal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/genewatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=313 |title=Human trafficking for ova removal or surrogacy |publisher=Councilforresponsiblegenetics.org |date=2004-03-31 |accessdate=2012-12-30}}</ref> Trafficking is a lucrative industry and one of the fastest growing, representing an estimated ]32 billion per year in international trade, compared to the estimated annual ]650 billion for all illegal international trade circa 2010.<ref>{{cite web|last=Haken|first=Jeremy|title=Transnational Crime In The Developing World|url=http://www.gfintegrity.org/storage/gfip/documents/reports/transcrime/gfi_transnational_crime_web.pdf|publisher=Global Financial Integrity|accessdate=25 June 2011}}</ref> Human trafficking is a global issue that is shaped by economic hardships, cultures, laws, and immigration policies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sorrells|first=Kathryn|title=Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice|year=2013|publisher=Sage|location=Los Angeles|isbn=978-1-4129-2744-4|page=101}}</ref> In 2004, the total annual revenue for trafficking in persons was estimated to be between ]5 billion and $9 billion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unece.org/press/pr2004/04gen_n03e.htm |title=Economic Roots of Trafficking in the UNECE Region – Regional Prep. Meeting for Beijing |publisher=Unece.org |date=15 December 2004 |accessdate=2011-03-22}}</ref> In 2005, Patrick Belser of ] estimated a global annual profit of ]31.6 billion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=forcedlabor|title=Forced Labor and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits|publisher=Cornell University ILR School|date=2005-03-01|accessdate=2011-06-25}}</ref> In 2008, the ] estimated nearly 2.5 million people from 127 different countries are being trafficked into 137 countries around the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25524&Cr=trafficking&Cr1 |title=UN-backed container exhibit spotlights plight of sex trafficking victims |publisher=Un.org |date=2008-02-06 |accessdate=2011-06-25}}</ref>
].<ref>{{cite news |title=These are all the countries where the US has a military presence |url=https://qz.com/374138/these-are-all-the-countries-where-the-us-has-a-military-presence/ |work=Quartz |date=2 April 2015 |access-date=2 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802123437/https://qz.com/374138/these-are-all-the-countries-where-the-us-has-a-military-presence/ |archive-date=2 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>]]


Increasingly, ]s influence public policy across national boundaries, including ] and ].<ref name="globall">Pawel Zaleski ''Global Non-governmental Administrative System: Geosociology of the Third Sector'', Gawin, Dariusz & Glinski, Piotr : "Civil Society in the Making", IFiS Publishers, Warszawa 2006</ref> Philanthropic organizations with global missions are also coming to the forefront of humanitarian efforts; charities such as the ], ], the Acumen Fund (now ]) and the Echoing Green have combined the ] with ], giving rise to business organizations such as the ] and new associations of philanthropists such as the ]. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation projects include a current multibillion-dollar commitment to funding immunizations in some of the world's more impoverished but rapidly growing countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Vaccine-Delivery|title=Vaccine Delivery|work=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation|access-date=6 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531050637/http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Vaccine-Delivery|archive-date=31 May 2013}}</ref> The ] estimates total private philanthropic flows to developing countries at ]59 billion in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/2012IndexofGlobalPhilanthropyandRemittances.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730155329/http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/2012IndexofGlobalPhilanthropyandRemittances.pdf|title=''The Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances 2012''. Hudson Institute Center for Global Prosperity.|archive-date=30 July 2012}}</ref>
Human trafficking differs from ]. In the latter, people voluntarily request or hire an individual, known as a smuggler, to covertly transport them from one location to another. This generally involves transportation from one country to another, where legal entry would be denied at the international border. There may be no deception involved in the (illegal) agreement. After entry into the country and arrival at their ultimate destination, the smuggled person is usually free to find their own way. According to the ] (ICMPD), human smuggling is a crime against the State due to violation of immigration laws and does not require violations of the rights of the smuggled migrants to be considered a crime. Human trafficking, on the other hand, is a crime against a person because of violation of the victim's rights through coercion and exploitation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anti-trafficking.net/differencebetweensmugglingand.html |title=Difference between Smuggling and Trafficking |publisher=Anti-trafficking.net |accessdate=2012-12-30}}</ref>


As a response to globalization, some countries have embraced ] policies. For example, the ]n government makes it very difficult for foreigners to enter the country and strictly monitors their activities when they do. Aid workers are subject to considerable scrutiny and excluded from places and regions the government does not wish them to enter. Citizens cannot freely leave the country.<ref name=nkr>{{cite web |url=http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2008-exodus.htm |title=North Korean Refugees NGO |publisher=Northkoreanrefugees.com |date=20 October 2008 |access-date=23 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618135156/http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2008-exodus.htm |archive-date=18 June 2010 }}</ref><ref name=unhcr>{{cite web|author=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,,PRK,4562d8cf2,487ca236c0,0.html |title=UNHCR Freedom in the World 2008 – North Korea |publisher=Unhcr.org |date=2 July 2008 |access-date=23 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018022844/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country%2C%2C%2C%2CPRK%2C4562d8cf2%2C487ca236c0%2C0.html |archive-date=18 October 2012 }}</ref>
===Economic globalization===
{{Main|Economic globalization}}


=== Globalization and gender ===
] becomes a symbol of the recent economic boom of ]. In 2011, China had 960,000 millionaires.<ref>"". '']''. 13 April 2011.</ref>]]
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Globalization has been a gendered process where giant multinational corporations have outsourced jobs to low-wage, low skilled, quota free economies like the ready made ] where poor women make up the majority of labor force. Despite a large proportion of women workers in the garment industry, women are still heavily underemployed compared to men. Most women that are employed in the garment industry come from the countryside of Bangladesh triggering migration of women in search of garment work. It is still unclear as to whether or not access to paid work for women where it did not exist before has empowered them. The answers varied depending on whether it is the employers perspective or the workers and how they view their choices. Women workers did not see the garment industry as economically sustainable for them in the long run due to long hours standing and poor working conditions. Although women workers did show significant autonomy over their personal lives including their ability to negotiate with family, more choice in marriage, and being valued as a wage earner in the family. This did not translate into workers being able to collectively organize themselves in order to negotiate a better deal for themselves at work.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Kabeer |first1=Nalia |title="Rags, Riches and Women Workers: Export-Oriented Garment Manufacturing in Bangladesh," from Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets |last2=Simeen |last3=Mahmud |publisher=Commonwealth Secretariat |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-85092-798-6 |location=London |pages=137, 147, 148, 150, 152}}</ref>


Another example of outsourcing in manufacturing includes the ] industry in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico where poor women make up the majority of the labor force. Women in the maquiladora industry have produced high levels of turnover not staying long enough to be trained compared to men. A gendered two tiered system within the maquiladora industry has been created that focuses on training and worker loyalty. Women are seen as being untrainable, placed in un-skilled, low wage jobs, while men are seen as more trainable with less turnover rates, and placed in more high skilled technical jobs. The idea of training has become a tool used against women to blame them for their high turnover rates which also benefit the industry keeping women as temporary workers.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Wright W. |first=Melissa |title="The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Disposability," from Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism. |publisher=Routledge |year=2007 |location=New York |pages=73, 82, 83}}</ref>
Economic globalization is the increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in ] movement of goods, service, technology and capital.<ref name="Joshi, Rakesh Mohan 2009">Joshi, Rakesh Mohan, (2009) International Business, Oxford University Press, New Delhi and New York ISBN 0-19-568909-7.</ref> Whereas the globalization of business is centered around the diminution of international trade regulations as well as tariffs, taxes, and other impediments that suppresses global trade, economic globalization is the process of increasing ] between countries, leading to the emergence of a global marketplace or a single world market.<ref>Riley, T: "Year 12 Economics", page 9. Tim Riley Publications, 2005</ref> Depending on the paradigm, economic globalization can be viewed as either a positive or a negative phenomenon. Economic globalization comprises the globalization of ], ], ], technology, and corporations and industries.<ref name="Joshi, Rakesh Mohan 2009"/> Current globalization trends can be largely accounted for by ] integrating with ] by means of ], the reduction of ]s as well as other ]s and, in many cases, ].


==Other dimensions==
In 1944, 44 nations attended the ] with a purpose of stabilizing world currencies and establishing credit for international trade in the post World War II era. While the international economic order envisioned by the conference gave way to the neo-liberal economic order prevalent today, the conference established many of the organizations essential to advancement towards a close-knit ] and ], such as the ], the ], and the ].
Scholars also occasionally discuss other, less common dimensions of globalization, such as ] (the internationally coordinated practices and regulations, often in the form of international treaties, regarding environmental protection)<ref name="Zimmerer2006-1">{{cite book|first=Karl S. |last=Zimmerer|title=Globalization & New Geographies of Conservation|url={{google books|id=UdLK-UGj7YkC|page=1|plainurl=yes}}|year=2006|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-98344-8|page=1}}</ref> or ] (growth in global extent and scope of security relationships).<ref name="Krishnan2016">{{cite book|first=Armin |last=Krishnan|title=War as Business: Technological Change and Military Service Contracting|url={{google books|id=1ymrCwAAQBAJ|page=PA157|plainurl=yes}}|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-00049-5|page=157}}</ref> Those dimensions, however, receive much less attention the three described above, as academic literature commonly subdivides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization and political globalization.<ref name="Ritzer2008-146"/>


===Movement of people===
As an example, ] began to open ] to globalization in the 1980s. Scholars find that China has attained a degree of openness that is unprecedented among large and populous nations, with competition from foreign goods in almost every sector of the economy. Foreign investment helped to greatly increase product quality and knowledge and standards, especially in heavy industry. China's experience supports the assertion that globalization greatly increases wealth for poor countries.<ref name="Loren 13">{{harvnb|Brandt|2008|p=13}}</ref>
] traffic in 2009]]
As of 2005–2007, the ] holds the title as the ].<ref>{{cite web| title =World Port Rankings 2005 | publisher=American Association of Port Authorities | year = 2005 | url =http://www.infoplease.com/business/world-port-ranking-2005.html | accessdate =15 September 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title =World Port Rankings 2006 | publisher=American Association of Port Authorities | year = 2006 | url =http://www.infoplease.com/business/world-port-ranking.html | accessdate =15 September 2009}}</ref><ref>http://aapa.files.cms-plus.com/Statistics/WORLD%20PORT%20RANKINGS%2020081.pdf</ref><ref>China has grown into the world's second largest economy, its resilience apparent in its relative economic stability during the 2008 global financial meltdown. Indeed, this sustained economic growth may be observed in many East Asian and Asia-Pacific economies, indicating that the 21st century's economic growth will be driven by Asian economies.</ref>


An essential aspect of globalization is movement of people, and state-boundary limits on that movement have changed across history.<ref>{{Cite journal | year= 2014 | last1= James| first1= Paul | author-link1= Paul James (academic) | title= Faces of Globalization and the Borders of States: From Asylum Seekers to Citizens | url= https://www.academia.edu/7773440 | journal= Citizenship Studies | volume= 18 | issue= 2 | pages= 208–23| doi= 10.1080/13621025.2014.886440| s2cid= 144816686}}</ref> The movement of tourists and business people opened up over the last century. As transportation technology improved, travel time and costs decreased dramatically between the 18th and early 20th century. For example, travel across the ] used to take up to 5 weeks in the 18th century, but around the time of the 20th century it took a mere 8 days.<ref name="autogenerated2">Boustan, Adain May. "Fertility and Immigration." UCLA. 15 January 2009.</ref> Today, modern aviation has made long-distance transportation quick and affordable.
As another example, ] and ongoing ] began in 1991. As of 2009, about 300 million people – equivalent to the entire population of the United States – have ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reason.com/blog/show/131810.html|title=What Slumdog Millionaire can teach Americans about economic stimulus|year=2008|author=Nick Gillespie|publisher=Reason}}</ref>
In ], ] has been described as the "primary engine of the country's development over the next few decades, contributing broadly to GDP growth, employment growth, and poverty alleviation".<ref name="Kuruvilla 2008 39–72">{{cite journal|last=Kuruvilla|coauthors=Ranganathan|title=ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND MACRO- AND MICRO-LEVEL HUMAN RESOURCE POLICIES: THE CASE OF INDIA'S "OUTSOURCING" INDUSTRY|journal=Industrial & Labor Relations Review|date=October 2008|volume=62|issue=1|pages=39–72|ref=harv}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/15777592?story_id=E1_TVSSSVJN|accessdate=16 April 2011|title=Outsourcing to Africa: The world economy calls &#124; The Economist|date=16 April 2011}}</ref>
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] of corporate profits in global ] due to ] spurred by imposition of austerity measures can stall investment, inhibiting further growth.<ref> ''Review of Keynesian Economics'', January 2013 (see also of the paper)</ref>]]


Tourism is travel for pleasure. The developments in technology and transportation infrastructure, such as ], low-cost airlines, and more ] airports have made many types of tourism more affordable. At any given moment half a million people are in the air.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Siebeck|first=Florian|title=Flugzeugparkplatz im Outback: Schlaf in der Wüste|language=de|work=FAZ.NET|url=https://www.faz.net/1.6771502|access-date=16 May 2020|issn=0174-4909}}</ref> International tourist arrivals surpassed the milestone of 1 billion tourists globally for the first time in 2012.<ref name="Barom2012">{{cite journal|url=http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfront.net/sites/all/files/pdf/unwto_barom13_01_jan_excerpt_0.pdf |title=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer |journal=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer |date=January 2013 |volume=11 |issue=1 |access-date=9 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228162347/http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfront.net/sites/all/files/pdf/unwto_barom13_01_jan_excerpt_0.pdf |archive-date=28 February 2013 }}</ref>
====Global financial system====
A ] is a conditional authorization granted by a country to a foreigner, allowing them to enter and temporarily remain within, or to leave that country. Some countries – such as those in the ] – have agreements with other countries allowing each other's citizens to travel between them without visas (for example, Switzerland is part of a Schengen Agreement allowing easy travel for people from countries within the European Union). The ] announced that the number of tourists who require a visa before traveling was at its lowest level ever in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfront.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/2015visaopennessreportonline.pdf |title=Visa Openness Report 2015 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123123959/http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfront.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/2015visaopennessreportonline.pdf |archive-date=23 January 2016 }}</ref>
{{Main|Global financial system}}


] is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess ] in order to settle or reside there, especially as ] or ] citizens, or to take-up employment as a ] or temporarily as a ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/immigration|title=immigration|publisher=Oxford University Press|website=Oxford Dictionaries|access-date=11 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518081143/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/immigration|archive-date=18 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immigration|title=immigrate|publisher=Merriam-Webster |access-date=27 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328072752/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immigration|archive-date=28 March 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="RCUK">{{cite web|title=Who's who: Definitions|url=http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy_research/the_truth_about_asylum/the_facts_about_asylum|publisher=Refugee Council|location=London, England|year=2016|access-date=7 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916064012/http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy_research/the_truth_about_asylum/the_facts_about_asylum|archive-date=16 September 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the ], {{as of|2014|lc=y}} there were an estimated 232 million international migrants in the world (defined as persons outside their country of origin for 12 months or more) and approximately half of them were estimated to be economically active (i.e. being employed or seeking employment).<ref>{{cite web|title=Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda|url=http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---migrant/documents/genericdocument/wcms_220084.pdf|website=www.ilo.org|access-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525162824/http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---migrant/documents/genericdocument/wcms_220084.pdf|archive-date=25 May 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> International movement of labor is often seen as important to economic development. For example, ] means that people can move freely between member states to live, work, study or retire in another country.
By the early 21st century, a worldwide framework of legal agreements, institutions, and both formal and informal ] came together to facilitate international flows of ] for purposes of ] and ]. This global financial system emerged during the first modern wave of ], marked by the establishment of ]s, ] ], and ]s aimed at improving the ], ], and effectiveness of international markets.<ref name="Cassis 2006">{{Cite book | title = Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005 | author = Cassis, Youssef | year = 2006 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, UK | isbn = 978-0-511-33522-8}}</ref> The ] became increasingly ] throughout the 20th century as nations liberalized capital accounts and deregulated financial sectors. With greater exposure to volatile capital flows, a series of ] in Europe, Asia, and Latin America had contagious effects on other countries. By the early 21st century, financial institutions had become increasingly large with a more sophisticated and interconnected range of investment activities. Thus, when the United States experienced a financial crisis early in that century, it quickly propagated among other nations. It became known as the ] and is recognized as the catalyst for the worldwide ].
] opening ceremony. About 69% of children born in ] in 2015 had at least one parent who was born abroad.<ref>" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625161100/https://www.ft.com/content/41b5b302-b7e5-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9a62 |date=25 June 2018 }}". '']''. 1 December 2016.</ref>]]


Globalization is associated with a dramatic rise in ]. The development of global ] in the workforce through ad-hoc training has deserved increasing attention in recent times.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Landis|first1=Dan|title=The Cambridge handbook of intercultural training|last2=Bhawuk|first2=Dharm P. S.|publisher=]|year=2020|isbn=978-1-108-85418-4|edition=4th|location=Cambridge, United Kingdom|oclc=1135909636}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Caligiuri|first=Paula|title=Build Your Cultural Agility The Nine Competencies of Successful Global Professionals.|date=2021|publisher=Kogan Page, Limited|isbn=978-1-78966-660-1|location=London|oclc=1239982517}}</ref> More and more students are seeking higher education in foreign countries and many ]s now consider overseas study a stepping-stone to permanent residency within a country.<ref name="gribble">{{cite journal | last1 = Gribble | first1 = C | year = 2008 | title = Policy options for managing international student migration: the sending country's perspective | journal = Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management | volume = 30 | issue = 1| pages = 25–39 | doi=10.1080/13600800701457830| s2cid = 155059201 }}</ref> The contributions that ]s make to host nation economies, both culturally and financially has encouraged major players to implement further initiatives to facilitate the arrival and integration of overseas students, including substantial amendments to ] and visa policies and procedures.<ref name="varghese">Varghese, N.V. 2008, 'Globalization of higher education and cross-border student mobility', International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO</ref>
=====Austerity=====
{{Main|Austerity}}


A ] is a ] between two people from different countries. A variety of special issues arise in marriages between people from different countries, including those related to citizenship and culture, which add complexity and challenges to these kinds of relationships. In an age of increasing globalization, where a growing number of people have ties to networks of people and places across the globe, rather than to a current geographic location, people are increasingly marrying across national boundaries. Transnational marriage is a by-product of the movement and migration of people.
Governments sometimes impose ''austerity'' policies to reduce ] during adverse economic conditions. These can include spending cuts, tax increases, or a mixture of the two.<ref name="ft_lexicon">{{cite web|url=http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=austerity-measure|title=Austerity measure|work=] Lexicon|accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="Traynor">{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/11/europe-deficit-crisis-austerity-budgets|title=Austerity Europe: who faces the cuts|last=Traynor|first=Ian|coauthors=Katie Allen|date=11 June 2010|publisher=Guardian News|accessdate=29 September 2010|location=London}}</ref><ref name="Wesbury">{{cite news|url=http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/26/government-spending-taxes-opinions-columnists-brian-wesbury-robert-stein.html|title=Government Austerity: The Good, Bad And Ugly|last=Wesbury|first=Brian S.|coauthors=Robert Stein|date=26 July 2010|work=Forbes|accessdate=29 September 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100929125657/http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/26/government-spending-taxes-opinions-columnists-brian-wesbury-robert-stein.html?| archivedate= 29 September 2010 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> Austerity policies demonstrate governments' ] to their ]s and ] by bringing fiscal income closer to expenditure.


===Movement of information===
The economic effects of austerity are unclear due to its wide and non-specific definition, the limited historic sample of ] and potential for conflation with the effects of other events that tend to precede austerity, such as ] and ]. In ], reducing government spending generally increases unemployment. This increases ] and reduces tax revenues, to some extent. Government spending contributes to ] (GDP), so the ] which signifies liquidity may not immediately improve. Short-term ], particularly, contributes to GDP growth when consumers and businesses are unwilling or unable to spend.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/opinion/krugman-europes-economic-suicide.html |title=Europe's Economic Suicide |last=Krugman |first=Paul |work=The New York Times |date=15 April 2012}}</ref> Under the theory of ] (EFC), a major reduction in government spending can change future expectations about taxes and government spending, encouraging private consumption and resulting in overall economic expansion.<ref>{{cite web , Tales of Fiscal Adjustments, Alberto Alesina & Silvia Ardagna}}</ref> Since 2011, the ] has issued cautionary guidance against austerity measures imposed without regard to underlying economic fundamentals<ref>Luc Eyraud and Anke Weber. (2013) ''IMF Working Paper Series'' No. WP/13/67 (International Monetary Fund)</ref><ref>Brad Plumer (October 12, 2012) ''Washington Post''</ref><ref>Andrew Berg and Jonathan Ostry. (2011) ''IMF Staff Discussion Note'' No. SDN/11/08 (International Monetary Fund)</ref> and many commentators have suggested that austerity measures have indeed been misguided and harmful to the economies where they have been imposed.<ref>Paul Krugman (March 10, 2013) ''New York Times''</ref><ref>Barry Eichengreen and Kevin H O’Rourke (23 October 2012) ''VoxEU.org''</ref><ref>Paul Krugman (March 9, 2013) ''New York Times''</ref>
{{See also|Internet}}
{{Internet users by region}}
]: Computers per 100 people per 2006]]


Before electronic communications, long-distance communications relied on mail. Speed of global communications was limited by the maximum speed of courier services (especially horses and ships) until the mid-19th century. The ] was the first method of instant long-distance communication. For example, before the first transatlantic cable, communications between Europe and the Americas took weeks because ships had to carry mail across the ocean. The first ] reduced communication time considerably, allowing a message and a response in the same day. Lasting transatlantic telegraph connections were achieved in the 1865–1866. The first wireless telegraphy transmitters were developed in 1895.
====Capital flight====
{{Main|Capital flight|Liquidity crisis}}
{{See also|Sudden stop (economics)|Tax exporting|Capital strike|Illicit financial flows}}


The Internet has been instrumental in connecting people across geographical boundaries. For example, ] is a ] which has more than 1.65 billion monthly active users {{as of|2016|3|31|lc=y}}.<ref name="Facebook-Newsroom">{{cite web|title=Company Info – Facebook Newsroom|url=https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/|publisher=Facebook|access-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115110456/https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/|archive-date=15 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
Capital flight occurs when assets or money rapidly flow out of a country because of that country's recent increase in ]es, ]s, ], or other unfavorable financial conditions such as ] ], which disturb ]s. This leads to a sometimes very rapid disappearance of ] and is usually accompanied by a sharp drop in the ] of the affected country, leading in turn to ] in a variable ] rate regime or a forced ] under ]s. This can be particularly damaging when the capital belongs to the people of the affected country, because not only are the citizens now burdened by the loss of faith in the economy and devaluation of their currency, but probably also their assets have lost much of their ] value. This leads to dramatic decreases in the ] of the country's assets and makes it increasingly expensive to ] goods.
] of 2001 caused in a currency devaluation and capital flight which resulted in a sharp drop in imports.]]


Globalization can be spread by Global journalism which provides massive information and relies on the internet to interact, "makes it into an everyday routine to investigate how people and their actions, practices, problems, life conditions, etc. in different parts of the world are interrelated. possible to assume that ] such as climate change precipitate the further establishment of global journalism."<ref>{{cite journal |first=Peter |last=Berglez |date=2008 |journal=Journalism Studies |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=845–58 <!--was originally "5" but that's confusing--> |doi=10.1080/14616700802337727|title=What is Global Journalism? |s2cid=142859567 }}</ref>
Capital flight can cause liquidity crises in the affected countries from which capital is flowing, the countries in which investors are trying to liquidate their assets, and other countries involved in ] such as shipping and finance. A 2008 paper published by ] estimated capital flight or ] out of developing countries to be at a rate of "some ]850 billion to $1 trillion a year."<ref></ref> Market participants in need of ] find it hard to locate potential trading partners to sell their ]. This may result as a consequence of limited market participation or because of a decrease in cash held by ]. Thus, asset holders may be forced to sell their assets at a price below the long term fundamental price. Borrowers typically face higher loan costs and ] requirements, compared to periods of ample liquidity, and ] is nearly impossible to obtain. Typically, during a liquidity crisis, the ] does not function smoothly either.


===Globalization and disease===
Capital flight affects advanced economies, as well. A 2009 article in '']'' reported that hundreds of wealthy financiers and entrepreneurs had recently fled the ] in response to recent tax increases, relocating in low tax destinations such as ], ], the ], and the ].<ref>, The Times, December 13, 2009</ref> In May 2012 the scale of ] capital flight in the wake of the first ] was estimated at €4 billion a week<ref></ref> and later that month the ] revealed €97 billion in capital flight from the ] for the first quarter of 2012.<ref></ref>
{{Main|Globalization and disease}}
{{See also|Virgin soil epidemic|Wildlife smuggling and zoonoses|Emerging infectious disease|Pandemic}}


In the current era of globalization, the world is more interdependent than at any other time. Efficient and inexpensive transportation has left few places inaccessible, and increased global trade has brought more and more people into contact with animal diseases that have subsequently jumped species barriers (see ]).<ref>{{cite news |title=The Coronavirus Could Finally Kill the Wild Animal Trade |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/25/virus-bats-pangolins-wild-animals-coronavirus-zoonotic-diseases/ |work=Foreign Policy |date=25 February 2020 |access-date=6 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317014208/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/25/virus-bats-pangolins-wild-animals-coronavirus-zoonotic-diseases/ |archive-date=17 March 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
====Measuring globalization====


], abbreviated COVID-19, first appeared in ], China in November 2019. More than 180 countries have reported cases since then.<ref>{{cite news |title=Coronavirus: Which countries have confirmed cases? |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html |work=Al Jazeera |date=6 April 2020 |access-date=6 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331073742/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/countries-confirmed-cases-coronavirus-200125070959786.html |archive-date=31 March 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2020|04|06|df=US}}, the U.S. has the most confirmed active cases in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6|title=Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins|access-date=25 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905173559/https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6|archive-date=5 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> More than 3.4 million people from the worst-affected countries entered the U.S. in the first three months since the inception of the ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Disaster in motion: 3.4 million travelers poured into US as coronavirus pandemic erupted |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/disaster-motion-34-million-travelers-poured-us-coronavirus/story?id=69933625 |work=ABC News |date=2 April 2020 |access-date=6 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402171949/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/disaster-motion-34-million-travelers-poured-us-coronavirus/story?id=69933625 |archive-date=2 April 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> This has caused a detrimental impact on the global economy, particularly for SME's and Microbusinesses with unlimited liability/self-employed, leaving them vulnerable to financial difficulties, increasing the market share for oligopolistic markets as well as increasing the barriers of entry.
=====Indices=====
{{Main|Globalization Index}}


==Measurement==
Measurement of economic globalization focuses on variables such as ], ] (FDI), ], and ]. However, newer indices attempt to measure globalization in more general terms, including variables related to political, social, cultural, and even environmental aspects of globalization.<ref>Vujakovic, Petra. (2010). "How to Measure Globalization? A New Globalization Index (NGI)." ''Atlantic Economic Journal'',
{{See also|List of globalization-related indices}}
38(2): 237. {{doi|10.1007/s11293-010-9217-3}}</ref>


One index of globalization is the KOF Index, which measures the three main dimensions of globalization: economic, social, and political.<ref></ref> Another is the ] / ] Globalization Index.<ref>. Data for the year 2006. No longer published.</ref> One index of globalization is the ''KOF Index of Globalization'', which measures three important dimensions of globalization: economic, social, and political.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/ | title=KOF Index of Globalization | publisher=The KOF Swiss Economic Institute | work=ethz.ch | date=2014 | access-date=21 January 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531222435/http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/ | archive-date=31 May 2012 }}</ref> Another is the ] / ] Globalization Index.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306223527/http://www.atkearney.com/shared_res/pdf/Globalization-Index_FP_Nov-Dec-06_S.pdf|date=6 March 2008}}. Data for the year 2006. No longer published.</ref>
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Measurements of economic globalization typically focus on variables such as ], ] (FDI), ] (GDP), ], and ]. However, newer indices attempt to measure globalization in more general terms, including variables related to political, social, cultural, and even environmental aspects of globalization.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Vujakovic | first1 = Petra | year = 2010 | title = How to Measure Globalization? A New Globalization Index (NGI) | journal = Atlantic Economic Journal | volume = 38 | issue = 2| page = 237 | doi = 10.1007/s11293-010-9217-3 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Overland|first=Indra|date=1 April 2016|title=Energy: The missing link in globalization|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296486356|journal=Energy Research & Social Science|volume=14|page=122|doi=10.1016/j.erss.2016.01.009|doi-access=free|bibcode=2016ERSS...14..122O |access-date=7 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205000937/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296486356|archive-date=5 February 2018|url-status=live|hdl=11250/2442076|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
=====Free trade policies=====
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The DHL Global Connectedness Index studies four main types of cross-border flow: trade (in both goods and services), information, people (including tourists, students, and migrants), and capital. It shows that the depth of global integration fell by about one-tenth after 2008, but by 2013 had recovered well above its pre-crash peak.<ref name="DHL" /><ref name="Signs of life" /> The report also found a shift of economic activity to ].<ref name="DHL" />
The ] measures the factors, policies and services that facilitate the trade in goods across borders and to destinations. It is made up of four sub-indexes: market access; border administration; transport and communications infrastructure; and business environment. The top 20 countries (as of the 2010 report) are:<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GETR10/GETR10-Overall-Rankings.pdf |title = Rankings: Global Enabling Trade Report 2010| author = World Economic Forum}}</ref>


==Support and criticism==
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Reactions to processes contributing to globalization have varied widely with a history as long as extraterritorial contact and trade. ] differences regarding the costs and benefits of such processes give rise to a broad-range of ] and ]s. Proponents of ], ], and ], in general, view globalizing processes as desirable or necessary to the well-being of human ].<ref name=Sen1970>Sen, Amartya K. (1970). ''Collective choice and social welfare.'' San Francisco, CA: Holden-Day.</ref>
===Sociocultural globalization===
], a Colombian multilingual singer-songwriter, playing outside her home country.]]


Antagonists view one or more globalizing processes as detrimental to social well-being on a global or local scale;<ref name=Sen1970 /> this includes those who focus on social or ] ] of long-term and continuous economic expansion, the social ] caused by these processes, and the ], ], or ] ], ] and ] that underlie such processes.
====Culture====
{{Main|Cultural globalization}}


Globalization tends to bring people into contact with foreign people and cultures. ] is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/xenophobia?q=xenophobia|title=Definition of xenophobia in English from the Oxford dictionary|work=oxforddictionaries.com|access-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731222505/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/xenophobia?q=xenophobia|archive-date=31 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/xenophobia|title=Define Xenophobia at Dictionary.com|work=Dictionary.com|access-date=23 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101202139/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Xenophobia|archive-date=1 January 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and ]s of an ] towards an ], including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity.<ref name="auto">Guido Bolaffi. ''Dictionary of race, ethnicity and culture''. SAGE Publications Ltd., 2003. p. 332.</ref>
] has increased cross-cultural contacts but may be accompanied by a decrease in the uniqueness of once-isolated communities. For example, ] is available in Germany as well as Japan but Euro-Disney outdraws the city of Paris, potentially reducing demand for "authentic" French pastry.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v25n3/globalization.pdf |title=Globalization and Culture |last1=Cowen |first1=Tyler |last2=Barber |first2=Benjamin |journal=Cato Policy Report |date=May–June 2003 |accessdate=November 2011|ref=harv}}</ref><ref>Nadeem, S (2009) . Cultural Sociology</ref><ref>Hacker, Violaine (2011), "Building Medias Industry while promoting a community of values in the globalization: from quixotic choices to pragmatic boon for EU Citizens", Politické Védy-Journal of Political Science, Slovakia</ref> Globalization's contribution to the alienation of individuals from their traditions may be modest compared to the impact of modernity itself, as alleged by ] such as ] and ]. Globalization has expanded recreational opportunities by spreading pop culture, particularly via the Internet and satellite television.


Critiques of globalization generally stem from discussions surrounding the impact of such processes on the planet as well as the human costs. They challenge directly traditional metrics, such as GDP, and look to other measures, such as the ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20238991~menuPK:492138~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html|title=Poverty Analysis – Measuring Inequality|work=worldbank.org|access-date=2 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622034007/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20238991%7EmenuPK:492138%7EpagePK:148956%7EpiPK:216618%7EtheSitePK:430367,00.html|archive-date=22 June 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> or the ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.happyplanetindex.org/ |title=The Happy Planet Index |publisher=Neweconomics.org |access-date=2 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926174209/http://www.happyplanetindex.org/ |archive-date=26 September 2009 }}</ref> and point to a "multitude of interconnected fatal consequences–social disintegration, a breakdown of democracy, more rapid and extensive deterioration of the environment, the spread of new diseases, increasing poverty and alienation"<ref name="The Hidden Connections">{{cite book | last = Capra | first = Fritjof | year = 2002 | title = The Hidden Connections | publisher = Random House | location = New York, New York | isbn = 978-0-385-49471-7 | url = https://archive.org/details/hiddenconnection00capr_0 }}</ref> which they claim are the ] of globalization. Others point out that, while the forces of globalization have led to the spread of western-style democracy, this has been accompanied by an increase in inter-ethnic tension and violence as free market economic policies combine with democratic processes of universal suffrage as well as an escalation in militarization to impose democratic principles and as a means to conflict resolution.<ref>Sorrells, Kathryn. Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2013. Print.</ref>
Religious movements were among the earliest cultural elements to globalize, being spread by force, migration, ], imperialists and traders. ], ], ] and more recently sects such as ], which have taken root and influenced endemic cultures in places far from their origins.<ref>McAlister, Elizabeth. 2005.
"" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 44, No 3, September 2005, 249–255.</ref>
], ] illustrates the ] of global society]]


On 9 August 2019, Pope Francis denounced ] and hinted that the Catholic Church will embrace globalization at the ], stating "the whole is greater than the parts. Globalization and unity should not be conceived as a sphere, but as a polyhedron: each people retains its identity in unity with others"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-08/pope-francis-interview-europe-amazonia-synod-politics-environmen.html|title=Pope: isolationism and populism lead to war – Vatican News|date=9 August 2019|website=www.vaticannews.va|access-date=9 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809181758/https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-08/pope-francis-interview-europe-amazonia-synod-politics-environmen.html|archive-date=9 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
Conversi claimed in 2010 that globalization was predominantly driven by the outward flow of culture and economic activity from the United States and was better understood as ],<ref></ref><ref>http://criticalglobalisation.com/Issue3/36_59_LIMITS_CULTURAL_GLOBALISATION_JCGS3.pdf</ref> or ]. For example, the two most successful global food and beverage outlets are American companies, ] and ], are often cited as examples of globalization, with over 32,000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000119312511046701/d10k.htm|title=2010 Form 10-K, McDonald's Corporation|publisher=United States Securities and Exchange Commission|accessdate=3 March 2011}}</ref> and 18,000 locations operating worldwide, respectively as of 2008.<ref>Steger, Manfred.''''. New York: Sterling Publishing, 2009.</ref>


===Public opinion===
The term globalization implies transformation. Cultural practices including traditional music can be lost or turned into a fusion of traditions. Globalization can trigger a state of emergency for the preservation of musical heritage. Archivists must attempt to collect, record or transcribe repertoires before melodies are assimilated or modified. Local musicians struggle for ] and to preserve local musical traditions. Globalization can lead performers to discard traditional instruments. Fusion genres can become interesting fields of analysis.<ref>Clayton, Thomas. 2004. "Competing Conceptions of Globalization" Revisited: Relocating the Tension between World-Systems Analysis and Globalization Analysis. In: Comparative Education Review, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 274–294.</ref>
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As a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, globalization is considered by some as a form of capitalist expansion which entails the integration of local and national economies into a global, unregulated market economy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Guttal|first=Shalmali|date=2007|title=Globalisation|journal=Development in Practice|volume=17|issue=4/5|pages=523–531|issn=0961-4524|jstor=25548249|doi=10.1080/09614520701469492|s2cid=218523141}}</ref> A 2005 study by Peer Fis and Paul Hirsch found a large increase in articles negative towards globalization in the years prior. In 1998, negative articles outpaced positive articles by two to one.<ref name="Fiss 2005">{{Cite journal|last1=Fiss|first1=Peer C.|last2=Hirsch|first2=Paul M.|s2cid=16331519|date=February 2005|title=The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept|journal=American Sociological Review|volume=70|issue=1|pages=29–52|doi=10.1177/000312240507000103}}</ref> The number of newspaper articles showing negative framing rose from about 10% of the total in 1991 to 55% of the total in 1999. This increase occurred during a period when the total number of articles concerning globalization nearly doubled.<ref name="Fiss 2005"/>
Globalization gave support to the ] phenomenon by allowing locally-recorded music to reach Western audiences searching for new ideas and sounds. For example, Western musicians have adopted many innovations that originated in other cultures.<ref>Throsby, David. (2002.) "The music industry in the new millennium: Global and Local Perspectives." </ref>


A number of international polls have shown that residents of Africa and Asia tend to view globalization more favorably than residents of Europe or North America. In Africa, a Gallup poll found that 70% of the population views globalization favorably.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btglobalizationtradera/273.php|title=Africans and Asians Tend to View Globalization Favorably; Europeans and Americans are More Skeptical|date=7 November 2006|website=WorldPublicOpinion.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212025444/http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btglobalizationtradera/273.php|archive-date=12 February 2012|access-date=28 November 2019}}</ref> The BBC found that 50% of people believed that economic globalization was proceeding too rapidly, while 35% believed it was proceeding too slowly.<ref name="bbc08">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/feb08/BBCEcon_Feb08_rpt.pdf|title=Widespread Unease about Economy and Globalization – Global poll|date=2008|website=BBC World Service|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903173226/http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/feb08/BBCEcon_Feb08_rpt.pdf|archive-date=3 September 2014|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
The term "World Music" was originally intended for ethnic-specific music. Now, globalization is expanding its scope such that the term often includes ] sub-genres such as ''World fusion'', ''Global fusion'', ''Ethnic fusion''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/ethnic-fusion-d224 |title=Ethnic fusion Music |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=}}</ref> and ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/worldbeat-d248 |title=Worldbeat |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/genre/content.genre/world_fusion_800/en_US#contents_top |title=World Fusion Music |publisher=worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com |accessdate=}}</ref>
] stall outside the ] shopping mall in ], ]]]


In 2004, Philip Gordon stated that "a clear majority of Europeans believe that globalization can enrich their lives, while believing the European Union can help them take advantage of globalization's benefits while shielding them from its negative effects". The main opposition consisted of socialists, environmental groups, and nationalists. Residents of the EU did not appear to feel threatened by globalization in 2004. The EU job market was more stable and workers were less likely to accept wage/benefit cuts. Social spending was much higher than in the US.<ref>Gordon, Philip. 2004. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629191739/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-europes-wary-embrace|date=29 June 2011}}. Yale Global, 1 November 2004.</ref> In a Danish poll in 2007, 76% responded that globalization is a good thing.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1684528,00.html|title=Why Denmark Loves Globalization|last=Fox|first=Justin|date=15 November 2007|magazine=Time|access-date=28 November 2019|url-status=live|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023072043/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1684528,00.html|archive-date=23 October 2019}}</ref>
Music flowed outward from the West as well. Anglo-American pop music spread across the world through ]. Dependency Theory explained that the world was an integrated, international system. Musically, this translated into the loss of local musical identity.<ref>Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. World-Systems Analysis. An Introduction. London: Duke University Press, pp. 23–59.</ref>


Fiss, ''et al.'', surveyed US opinion in 1993. Their survey showed that, in 1993, more than 40% of respondents were unfamiliar with the concept of globalization. When the survey was repeated in 1998, 89% of the respondents had a polarized view of globalization as being either good or bad. At the same time, discourse on globalization, which began in the financial community before shifting to a heated debate between proponents and disenchanted students and workers. Polarization increased dramatically after the establishment of the WTO in 1995; this event and subsequent protests led to a large-scale anti-globalization movement.<ref name="Fiss 2005"/>
Bourdieu claimed that the perception of consumption can be seen as self-identification and the formation of identity. Musically, this translates into each being having his own musical identity based on likes and tastes. These likes and tastes are greatly influenced by culture as this is the most basic cause for a person's wants and behavior. The concept of one's own culture is now in a period of change due to globalization. Also, globalization has increased the interdependency of political, personal, cultural and economic factors.<ref>Beard, David and Keneth Gloag. 2005. Musicology: The Key Concepts. London and New York: Routledge.</ref>
Initially, college educated workers were likely to support globalization. Less educated workers, who were more likely to compete with immigrants and workers in developing countries, tended to be opponents. The situation changed after the ]. According to a 1997 poll 58% of college graduates said globalization had been good for the US. By 2008 only 33% thought it was good. Respondents with high school education also became more opposed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121623686919059307|title=The Declining Value Of Your College Degree|last=Ip|first=Greg|date=18 July 2008|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=29 November 2019|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229022054/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121623686919059307|archive-date=29 February 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>


According to Takenaka Heizo and Chida Ryokichi, {{as of|1998|lc=y}} there was a perception in Japan that the economy was "Small and Frail". However, Japan was resource-poor and used exports to pay for its raw materials. Anxiety over their position caused terms such as '']'' and ''globalization'' to enter everyday language. However, Japanese tradition was to be as self-sufficient as possible, particularly in agriculture.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=http://www.jcie.org/researchpdfs/DomAdjst/takenaka-chida.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406132050/http://www.jcie.org/researchpdfs/DomAdjst/takenaka-chida.pdf |archive-date=2011-04-06 |url-status=live|title=Domestic Adjustments to Globalization|last1=Heizo|first1=Takenaka|last2=Ryokichi|first2=Chida|publisher=Japan Center for International Exchange|year=1998|isbn=4-88907-012-5|editor-last=Morrison|editor-first=Charles E.|location=Tokyo|pages=76–102|chapter=Japan|oclc=40657196|editor-last2=Soesastro|editor-first2=Hadi}}</ref>
A 2005 UNESCO report<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/cscl/IntlFlows_EN.pdf |title=International Flows of Selected Goods and Services |format=PDF |accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> showed that cultural exchange is becoming more frequent from Eastern Asia but Western countries are still the main exporters of cultural goods. In 2002, China was the third largest exporter of cultural goods, after the UK and US. Between 1994 and 2002, both North America's and the European Union's shares of cultural exports declined while Asia's cultural exports grew to surpass North America. Related factors are the fact that Asia's population and area are several times that of North America. Americanization related to a period of high political American clout and of significant growth of America's shops, markets and object being brought into other countries.


Many in developing countries see globalization as a positive force that lifts them out of poverty.<ref name="bhagwati"/> Those opposing globalization typically combine environmental concerns with nationalism. Opponents consider governments as agents of ] that are subservient to ].<ref name="visuality.org">{{cite journal |last=Shoa |first=S. Rajgopal |year=2002 |title=Reclaiming Democracy, the Anti-globalization Movement in South Asia |journal=Feminist Review |number=70 |pages=134–137 |jstor=1395975}}</ref> Much of this criticism comes from the middle class; the ] suggested this was because the middle class perceived upwardly mobile low-income groups as threatening to their economic security.<ref>{{cite web |first=Carol |last=Graham |title=Winners and Losers: Perspectives on Globalization from the Emerging Market Economies |publisher=Brookings |date=1 January 2011 |url=http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2001/fall_globaleconomics_graham.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511180832/http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2001/fall_globaleconomics_graham.aspx |archive-date=11 May 2011 }}</ref>
So, globalization, a diverse phenomenon, relates to a multilateral political world and to the increase of cultural objects and markets between countries. The Indian experience particularly reveals the ] of the impact of cultural globalization.<ref>Ghosh, Biswajit (2011). ." ''Journal of Developing Societies'', SAGE Publications, 27(2): 153–175.</ref>


===Economics===
=====Multilingualism and the emergence of lingua francas=====
] of China and ] meet while attending an ] summit in Santiago de Chile, 2004.]]
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The literature analyzing the economics of free trade is extremely rich with extensive work having been done on the theoretical and empirical effects. Though it creates winners and losers, the broad consensus among economists is that free trade is a large and unambiguous net gain for society.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1 = Fuller|first1 = Dan|last2 = Geide-Stevenson|first2 = Doris|title = Consensus Among Economists: Revisited|journal = Journal of Economic Review|volume = 34|issue = 4|pages = 369–87|date =Fall 2003|url = http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/pdffiles/fall03/fuller.pdf|doi = 10.1080/00220480309595230|s2cid = 143617926|access-date = 22 December 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040920081202/http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/pdffiles/fall03/fuller.pdf|archive-date = 20 September 2004|url-status = live
] speakers outnumber ] speakers in the world's population.<ref></ref> Today most people in the world are multilingual.<ref></ref> ] occurs when two or more languages or ] interact. Language contact occurs in a variety of phenomena, including ], ], and ]. The most common products are ], ], ], and ]s.
}}{{registration required}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Friedman|first=Milton|author-link=Milton Friedman|title=The Case for Free Trade|journal=]|volume=1997|issue=4|page=42|url=http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3550727.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070122032127/http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3550727.html|archive-date=22 January 2007|bibcode=1993SciAm.269e..42B|year=1993|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican1193-42}}</ref> In a 2006 survey of 83 American economists, "87.5% agree that the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade" and "90.1% disagree with the suggestion that the U.S. should restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries."<ref>{{Cite journal|last = Whaples|first = Robert|title = Do Economists Agree on Anything? Yes!|journal = The Economists' Voice|volume = 3|issue = 9|year= 2006|doi = 10.2202/1553-3832.1156|s2cid = 201123406}}</ref>


Quoting Harvard economics professor ], "Few propositions command as much consensus among professional economists as that open world trade increases economic growth and raises living standards."<ref>{{cite web|last = Mankiw|first = Gregory|title = Outsourcing Redux|date = 7 May 2006|url = http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/outsourcing-redux.html|access-date = 22 January 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070402023947/http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/05/outsourcing-redux.html|archive-date = 2 April 2007}}</ref> In a survey of leading economists, none disagreed with the notion that "freer trade improves productive efficiency and offers consumers better choices, and in the long run these gains are much larger than any effects on employment."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_0dfr9yjnDcLh17m|title=Poll Results {{!}} IGM Forum|website=www.igmchicago.org|access-date=1 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622104941/http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_0dfr9yjnDcLh17m|archive-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> Most economists would agree that although increasing returns to scale might mean that certain industry could settle in a geographical area without any strong economic reason derived from comparative advantage, this is not a reason to argue against free trade because the absolute level of output enjoyed by both "winner" and "loser" will increase with the "winner" gaining more than the "loser" but both gaining more than before in an absolute level.
Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://multilingualism.org/multilingualism/the-importance-of-multilingualism |title=The importance of multilingualism |publisher=multilingualism.org |accessdate=16 September 2010}}</ref> Thanks to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals' exposure to multiple languages is becoming more and more frequent, triggering, therefore, the need to acquire more and more languages.


In the book '']'', Jeffrey Sachs discusses how many factors can affect a country's ability to enter the world market, including government ]; legal and social disparities based on gender, ethnicity, or caste; diseases such as ] and ]; lack of infrastructure (including transportation, communications, health, and trade); unstable political landscapes; ]; and geographic barriers.<ref name="The End of Poverty">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/endofpovertyecon00sach|title=The End of Poverty|last=Sachs|first=Jeffrey|publisher=Penguin Press|year=2005|isbn=978-1-59420-045-8|location=New York|oclc=57243168|url-access=registration}}</ref> ], a former adviser to the U.N. on globalization, holds that, although there are obvious problems with overly rapid development, globalization is a very positive force that lifts countries out of poverty by causing a virtuous economic cycle associated with faster economic growth.<ref name="bhagwati">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/indefenseofglob00bhag|title=In Defense of Globalization|last=Bhagwati|first=Jagdish|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0-19-533093-9|location=Oxford; New York|oclc=719371219|url-access=registration}}</ref> However, economic growth does not necessarily mean a reduction in poverty; in fact, the two can coexist. Economic growth is conventionally measured using indicators such as ] and ] that do not accurately reflect the growing disparities in wealth.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives|last1=Peet|first1=Richard|last2=Hartwick|first2=Elaine|publisher=The Guilford Press|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4625-1957-6|edition=3rd|location=New York|page=2|oclc=908634816|quote=But economic growth can occur without touching problems like inequality or poverty when all the increase in income goes to a relatively few people.}}</ref> Additionally, ] argues that poor people are often excluded from globalization-induced opportunities "by a lack of productive assets, weak infrastructure, poor education and ill-health;"<ref>{{Cite book|title=Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues|last1=Beaudet|first1=Pierre|last2=Schafer|first2=Jessica|last3=Haslam|first3=Paul A.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-19-544020-1|page=112|quote=According to Oxfam International, the contrasting experiences of Latin America and East Asia illustrate that globalization-induced growth and poverty can co-exist. Even when the market expands, 'poor people are often excluded from opportunities by a lack of productive assets, weak infrastructure, poor education, and ill-health'}}</ref> effectively leaving these marginalized groups in a ]. Economist ] is another staunch supporter of globalization and free trade with a record of disagreeing with many critics of globalization. He argues that many of them lack a basic understanding of ] and its importance in today's world.<ref>Conversi, Daniele (2009) ' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607191631/http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/conversi/Globalization.pdf|date=7 June 2011}}', in B. Turner (ed.) Handbook of Globalization Studies. London: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis; ] (2005) Globalization and War. Rowman & Littlefield; Smith, Dennis (2006) Globalization: The Hidden Agenda. Cambridge: Polity Press. See also Barber, Benjamin R., ]. Ballantine Books, 1996</ref>
A ] is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a ], in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both mother tongues.<ref>Viacheslav A. Chirikba, "The problem of the Caucasian Sprachbund" in Pieter Muysken, ed., ''From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics'', 2008, p. 31. ISBN 90-272-3100-1</ref> Today, the most popular ] is English. Some 3.5 billion people have some acquaintance of the language.<ref>{{cite news
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English is the dominant language on the Internet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/language_1.htm |title=Anthro.palomar.edu |publisher=Anthro.palomar.edu |date=27 July 2009 |accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref>
About 35% of the world's mail, telexes, and cables are in English; approximately 40% of the world's radio programs are in English.<ref>Swain, Samarak. (2011). ''Social Issues of India''. Nrew Dheli: New Vishal Publications. ISBN 9781257094547.</ref>


The flow of migrants to advanced economies has been claimed to provide a means through which global wages converge. An IMF study noted a potential for skills to be transferred back to developing countries as wages in those a countries rise.<ref name="12th April 2000: IMF Publications"/> Lastly, the dissemination of knowledge has been an integral aspect of globalization. Technological innovations (or technological transfer) are conjectured to benefit most developing and least developing countries (LDCs), as for example in the adoption of ]s.<ref name="Saggi2002" />
While multilingualism is common among individuals, globally the number of spoken languages is decreasing. The ] spoken by more than 50 million speakers each are spoken by some 50% of the world's population, whereas many of the other languages are spoken in small communities, most with less than 10,000 speakers.<ref name="Handbook">{{cite book|editor-first=Peter K|editor-last=Austin|editor2-first=Julia|editor2-last=Sallabank|chapter=Introduction|title=Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages|first=Peter K|last=Austin|first2=Julia|last2=Sallabank|year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-88215-6}}</ref> Historically, these less widespread languages were afforded protection through geographical isolation. Today, speakers of regional and minority languages are increasingly unable to compete with those who speak dominant languages such that these languages are now considered ]s. The total number of languages in the world is not precisely known and estimates vary depending on many factors. The current estimate is that there are between 6000 and 7000<ref>{{cite web|title=Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing. Online version: |url=http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas/|year=2010|accessdate=17 May 2013|publisher=UNESCO.org}}</ref> languages spoken and between 50–90% of those will have become extinct by the year 2100.<ref name="Handbook"/>


There has been a rapid economic growth in Asia after embracing ]-based economic policies that encourage private ], free enterprise and competition. In particular, in East Asian developing countries, ] per head rose at 5.9% a year from 1975 to 2001 (according to 2003 ]<ref>{{cite web|year=2003|url=http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr03_complete.pdf|title=Human Development Report 2003|publisher=UNDP|access-date=6 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130418072827/http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr03_complete.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> of UNDP). Like this, the British economic journalist ] says that incomes of poor developing countries, with more than half the world's population, grew substantially faster than those of the world's richest countries that remained relatively stable in its growth, leading to reduced international inequality and the incidence of poverty.
====Politics====
{{Main|Global politics}}
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] in both developed and developing countries, ] has a more beneficial impact than trade openness, sound political institutions, and foreign investment.<ref name=BergOstryEE>{{Cite journal |last1= Berg |first1= Andrew G. |last2= Ostry |first2= Jonathan D. |year= 2011 |title= Equality and Efficiency |journal= Finance and Development |volume= 48 |issue= 3 |url= http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/09/berg.htm |access-date= 10 September 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120703033111/http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/09/berg.htm |archive-date= 3 July 2012 |url-status= live }}</ref>]]
In general, globalization may ultimately reduce the importance of ]s. ] institutions such as the ], the ], the ] or the ] replace or extend national functions to facilitate international agreement.<ref name="Scholte, 2005">{{cite book|last=Scholte|first=Jan-Aart|title=Globalization: A Critical Introduction |chapter=Chapter 6: Globalization and Governance|year=2005|publisher=Palgrave}}</ref> Some observers attribute the relative decline in US power to globalization, particularly due to the country's high trade deficit. This led to a global power shift towards Asian states, particularly China, which unleashed market forces and achieved tremendous growth rates. As of 2011, the Chinese economy was on track to overtake the United States by 2025.<ref name="PWC, 2011">{{cite web|last=PriceWaterhouseCoopers|title=Beyond the BRICs|url=http://www.pwc.co.uk/eng/publications/beyond_the_brics.html}}</ref>
Certain demographic changes in the developing world after active ] and international integration resulted in rising general welfare and, hence, reduced inequality. According to Wolf, in the developing world as a whole, life expectancy rose by four months each year after 1970 and infant mortality rate declined from 107 per thousand in 1970 to 58 in 2000 due to improvements in ] and health conditions. Also, adult literacy in developing countries rose from 53% in 1970 to 74% in 1998 and much lower illiteracy rate among the young guarantees that rates will continue to fall as time passes. Furthermore, the reduction in ] in the developing world as a whole from 4.1 births per woman in 1980 to 2.8 in 2000 indicates improved education level of women on fertility, and control of fewer children with more parental attention and investment.<ref name="Wolf2004">{{cite book|url= https://archive.org/details/whyglobalization00wolf|title= Why Globalization Works|publisher= ]|author= Martin Wolf|year= 2004|isbn= 978-0-300-10252-9|access-date= 6 April 2013|df= dmy-all}}{{dead link|date=January 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Consequently, more prosperous and educated parents with fewer children have chosen to withdraw their children from the labor force to give them opportunities to be educated at school improving the issue of ]. Thus, despite seemingly unequal ] within these developing countries, their economic growth and development have brought about improved standards of living and welfare for the population as a whole.


Per capita ] (GDP) growth among post-1980 globalizing countries accelerated from 1.4 percent a year in the 1960s and 2.9 percent a year in the 1970s to 3.5 percent in the 1980s and 5.0 percent in the 1990s. This acceleration in growth seems even more remarkable given that the rich countries saw steady declines in growth from a high of 4.7 percent in the 1960s to 2.2 percent in the 1990s. Also, the non-globalizing developing countries seem to fare worse than the globalizers, with the former's annual growth rates falling from highs of 3.3 percent during the 1970s to only 1.4 percent during the 1990s. This rapid growth among the globalizers is not simply due to the strong performances of China and India in the 1980s and 1990s—18 out of the 24 globalizers experienced increases in growth, many of them quite substantial.<ref name="DDollar">{{cite web|author=Dollar, David|author2=Kraay, Aart|title=Trade, Growth, and Poverty|url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/09/dollar.htm|work=Finance and Development|publisher=International Monetary Fund|access-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111124849/http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/09/dollar.htm|archive-date=11 January 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
Increasingly, ]s influence public policy across national boundaries, including ] and ].<ref name="globall">Pawel Zaleski ''Global Non-governmental Administrative System: Geosociology of the Third Sector'', Gawin, Dariusz & Glinski, Piotr : "Civil Society in the Making", IFiS Publishers, Warszawa 2006</ref> Philanthropic organizations with global missions are also coming to the forefront of humanitarian efforts; charities such as the ], ], the Acumen Fund (now ]) and the ] have combined the ] with ], giving rise to business organizations such as the ] and new associations of philanthropists such as the ]. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation projects include a current multi-billion dollar commitment to funding immunizations in some of the world's more impoverished but rapidly growing countries.<ref></ref> and hundreds of millions of dollars in the next few years to programs aimed at encouraging saving by the world's poor.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? id=20601086&sid=aRYXnh3Vgh3w&refer=latin_america | work=Bloomberg | title=Gates Foundation to Promote Savings by World's Poor, WSJ Says | date=2008-07-31}}</ref> The ] estimates total private philanthropic flows to developing countries at ]59 billion in 2010.<ref></ref>


] (in trillions USD), 2018]]
As a response to globalization, some countries have embraced ] policies. For example, the ]n government makes it very difficult for foreigners to enter the country and strictly monitors their activities when they do. Aid workers are subject to considerable scrutiny and excluded from places and regions the government does not wish them to enter. Citizens cannot freely leave the country.<ref name=nkr>{{cite web|url=http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2008-exodus.htm |title=North Korean Refugees NGO |publisher=Northkoreanrefugees.com |date=20 October 2008 |accessdate=23 August 2010}}</ref><ref name=unhcr>{{cite web|author=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,,PRK,4562d8cf2,487ca236c0,0.html |title=UNHCR Freedom in the World 2008 – North Korea |publisher=Unhcr.org |date=2 July 2008 |accessdate=23 August 2010}}</ref>
The globalization of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has led to the resurfacing of the idea that the growth of economic ] promotes peace.<ref>E.g. {{cite web |title=Globalisation promotes peace |first1=Ju Hyun |last1=Pyun |first2=Jong-Wha |last2=Lee |date=21 March 2009 |url=http://www.voxeu.org/article/globalisation-promotes-peace |access-date=25 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025034256/http://www.voxeu.org/article/globalisation-promotes-peace |archive-date=25 October 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> This idea had been very powerful during the globalization of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a central doctrine of ] of that era, such as the young ] (1883–1946).<ref>See, for example, ], '']'', Macmillan, 1951; ], ''] and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace'', Oxford University Press, 2006. Keynes had colourfully described the globalization before World War I in ''The Economic Consequences of the Peace'', Macmillan, 1919, chapter 2.</ref>


Some opponents of globalization see the phenomenon as a promotion of corporate interests.<ref>{{cite news|first=Laurence|last=Lee|title=WTO blamed for India grain suicides|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2ED53A8B-1058-49CF-B9FF-3D96639456D1.htm|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=17 May 2007|access-date=17 May 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519082251/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2ED53A8B-1058-49CF-B9FF-3D96639456D1.htm|archive-date=19 May 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> They also claim that the increasing autonomy and strength of ] shapes the political policy of countries.<ref name="The Corporation">{{cite book | last = Bakan | first = Joel | author-link = Joel Bakan | year = 2004 | title = The Corporation | publisher = Simon & Schuster | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-7432-4744-3 | url = https://archive.org/details/corporation00joel }}</ref><ref name="Confessions of an Economic Hit Man">{{cite book | last = Perkins | first = John | author-link = John Perkins (author) | year = 2004 | title = Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | publisher = Berrett-Koehler | location = San Francisco | isbn = 978-1-57675-301-9 | url = https://archive.org/details/confessionsofec000perk }}</ref> They advocate global institutions and policies that they believe better address the moral claims of poor and working classes as well as environmental concerns.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2&id_menu= |title=Fórum Social Mundial |publisher=Forumsocialmundial.org.br |access-date=31 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918063356/http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2&id_menu= |archive-date=18 September 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> Economic arguments by ] theorists claim that unrestricted free trade benefits those with more ] (i.e. the rich) at the expense of the poor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_viewpoints_nafta_legacy_at10/|title=NAFTA at 10|work=Economic Policy Institute|access-date=7 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630061101/http://www.epi.org/publication/webfeatures_viewpoints_nafta_legacy_at10/|archive-date=30 June 2012}}</ref>
=====Media and public opinion=====
{{Main|Media (communication)|Public opinion}}


Globalization allows corporations to ] manufacturing and service jobs from high-cost locations, creating economic opportunities with the most competitive wages and worker benefits.<ref name="Kuruvilla 2008 39–72"/> Critics of globalization say that it disadvantages poorer countries. While it is true that free trade encourages globalization among countries, some countries try to protect their domestic suppliers. The main export of poorer countries is usually ]s. Larger countries often subsidize their ] (e.g., the EU's ]), which lowers the market price for foreign crops.<ref name="Hurst E. Charles P.41">Hurst E. Charles. Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and consequences, 6th ed. p. 41</ref>
A 2005 study by Peer Fiss and Paul Hirsch found a large increase in articles negative towards globalization in the years prior. In 1998, negative articles outpaced positive articles by two to one.<ref name="Fiss 2005">Fiss, Peer and Hirsch, Pal: "The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept. American Sociological Review, February 2005. vol. 70 no 1: 29–52.</ref> In 2008 Greg Ip claimed this rise in opposition to globalization can be explained, at least in part, by economic self-interest.<ref name=ip08>Greg Ip: "The Declining Value Of Your College Degree", '']''. 17 July 2008.</ref> The number of newspaper articles showing negative framing rose from about 10% of the total in 1991 to 55% of the total in 1999. This increase occurred during a period when the total number of articles concerning globalization nearly doubled.<ref name="Fiss 2005"/>


===Global democracy===
A number of international polls have shown that residents of developing countries tend to view globalization more favorably.<ref>"Africans and Asians Tend to View Globalization Favorably. Europeans and Americans are More Skeptical". World Public Opinion.org. 7 November 2006.</ref> The BBC found a growing feeling in developing countries that globalization was proceeding too rapidly. Only in a few countries, including Mexico, the countries of Central America, Indonesia, Brazil and Kenya, did a majority feel that globalization is increasing too slowly.<ref name=bbc08/>

Philip Gordon stated that " a clear majority of Europeans believe that globalization can enrich their lives, while believing the European Union can help them take advantage of globalization's benefits while shielding them from its negative effects."<ref>Gordon, Philip. 2004. "Globalization: Europe's Wary Embrace". ''Yale Global'', 1 November 2004. http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-europes-wary-embrace</ref> The main opposition consisted of socialists, environmental groups, and nationalists.

Residents of the EU did not appear to feel threatened by globalization in 2004. The EU job market was more stable and workers were less likely to accept wage/benefit cuts. Social spending was much higher than in the US.<ref>Gordon, Philip. 2004. "Globalization: Europe's Wary Embrace". Yale Global, 1 November 2004. http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-europes-wary-embrace</ref>

In a Danish poll in 2007, 76% responded that globalisation is a good thing.<ref>Time Magazine: </ref>

Fiss, ''et al.'', surveyed U.S. opinion in 1993. Their survey showed that, in 1993, more than 40% of respondents were unfamiliar with the concept of globalization. When the survey was repeated in 1998, 89% of the respondents had a polarized view of globalization as being either good or bad. At the same time, discourse on globalization, which began in the financial community before shifting to a heated debate between proponents and disenchanted students and workers. Polarization increased dramatically after the establishment of the WTO in 1995; this event and subsequent protests led to a large-scale anti-globalization movement.<ref name="Fiss 2005"/>
Initially, college educated workers were likely to support globalization. Less educated workers, who were more likely to compete with immigrants and workers in developing countries, tended to be opponents. The situation changed after the ]. According to a 1997 poll 58% of college graduates said globalization had been good for the U.S. By 2008 only 33% thought it was good. Respondents with high school education also became more opposed.<ref name=ip08/>

According to Takenaka Heizo and Chida Ryokichi, as of 1998 there was a perception in Japan that the economy was "Small and Frail". However Japan was resource poor and used exports to pay for its raw materials. Anxiety over their position caused terms such as ''internationalization'' and ''globalization'' to enter everyday language. However, Japanese tradition was to be as self-sufficient as possible, particularly in agriculture.<ref>Takenaka Heizo and Chida Ryokichi. 1998. "Japan," ''Domestic Adjustments to Globalization''; (ed, Charles E. Morrison and Hadi Soesastro), Tokyo: Japan center for International Exchange, 1998, pp. 76–102.</ref>

The situation may have changed after the 2007 financial crisis. A 2008 ] World Public Poll as the crisis began suggested that opposition to globalization in developed countries was increasing. The BBC poll asked whether globalization was ''growing too rapidly''. Agreement was strongest in France, Spain, Japan, South Korea, and Germany. The trend in these countries appears to be stronger than in the United States. The poll also correlated the tendency to view globalization as proceeding too rapidly with a perception of growing economic insecurity and social inequality.<ref name=bbc08>"Widespread Unease about Economy and Globalization". ''BBC World Service Pol''l. http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/feb08/BBCEcon_Feb08_rpt.pdf</ref>

Many in developing countries see globalization as a positive force that lifts them out of poverty.<ref name="bhagwati"/> Those opposing globalization typically combine environmental concerns with nationalism. Opponents consider governments as agents of ] that are subservient to ].<ref name="visuality.org">Shoa S. Rajgopal. 2002. Reclaiming Democracy, the Anti-globalization Movement in South Asia". Feminist review 70, 2002. http://visuality.org/globalization/wmst250_readings/the_antiglobalization_mvmnt.pdf</ref> Much of this criticism comes from the middle class; the ] suggested this was because the middle class perceived upwardly mobile low-income groups as threatening to their economic security.<ref>Carol Graham "Winners and Losers: Perspectives on Globalization from the Emerging Market Economies" Brookings. Saturday 1 January 2011 http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2001/fall_globaleconomics_graham.aspx</ref>

Although many critics blame globalization for a ] in industrialized countries, the middle class is growing rapidly in developing countries.<ref>John Parker, Burgeoning bourgeoisie, A special report on the new middle classes in emerging markets. The Economist .12 February 2009. http://www.economist.com/node/13063298?story_id=13063298&source=hptextfeature</ref> Coupled with growing urbanization, this leads to increasing disparities in wealth between urban and rural areas.<ref>"Globalization and the Rural-Urban Divide". IATRC Summer Symposium, 30 June – 2 July 2008.http://aede.osu.edu/programs/anderson/trade/Seoul_Symposium_Report.pdf</ref> In 2002, in India, 70% of the population lived in rural areas and depended directly on natural resources for their livelihood.<ref name="visuality.org"/> As a result, mass movements in the countryside at times express objections to the process.<ref>Shoa S. Rajgopal. 2002. Reclaiming Democracy, the Anti-globalization Movement in South Asia". ''Feminist review'' 70, 2002. http://visuality.org/globalization/wmst250_readings/the_antiglobalization_mvmnt.pdf</ref>

The nonprofit ] publishes a ], an annual ranking of countries based upon the organization's assessment of the countries' ] records in the previous year. It reflects the degree of freedom that ], news organizations, and ] enjoy in each country, and the efforts made by the authorities to respect and ensure respect for this freedom.

====Internet====
]: Percent of population connected in 2012<ref name=ITU-IndividualsUsingTheInternet>, International Telecommunications Union (Geneva), June 2013, retrieved 22 June 2013</ref>]]
{{Main|Global Internet usage}}
{{See also|List of countries by number of Internet users}}

Both a product of globalization as well as a catalyst, the ] connects computer users around the world. From 2000 to 2009, the number of Internet users globally rose from 394 million to 1.858 billion.<ref>, Market Information and Statistics, International Telecommunications Union</ref> By 2010, 22 percent of the world's population had access to computers with 1 billion ] searches every day, 300 million Internet users reading blogs, and 2 billion videos viewed daily on YouTube.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/71940/google-earth-demonstrates-how-technology-benefits-ris-civil-society-govt |title=Google Earth demonstrates how technology benefits RI`s civil society, govt |publisher=Antara News |date=26 May 2011 |accessdate=13 June 2012}}</ref> According to research firm ] the size of total worldwide e-commerce, when
global business-to-business and -consumer transactions are added together, will equate to ]16 trillion in 2013. ], another research firm, estimates the global market for digital products and services at ]4.4 trillion in 2013. A report by ] adds those two together to estimate the total size of the ] at $20.4 trillion, equivalent to roughly 13.8% of global sales.<ref>, Oxford Economics, 2 July 2011</ref>

While much has been written of the economic advantages of ], there is also evidence that some aspects of the internet such as maps and location-aware services may serve to reinforce ] and the ].<ref>{{cite web | title=How the Internet Reinforces Inequality in the Real World | work=The Atlantic | author=Badger, Emily |date=6 February 2013 |accessdate=2013-02-13 | url=http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/02/how-internet-reinforces-inequality-real-world/4602/ }}</ref> Electronic commerce may be partly responsible for ] and the decline of ], ] businesses resulting in increases in ].<ref> ''ZDNet'', January 17, 2013</ref><ref> ''Comscore'', December 23, 2012</ref><ref> ''The Atlantic – Cities'', December 26, 2012</ref>

An ] is a ] that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. Significant socio-technical change may have resulted from the proliferation of such Internet-based ]s.<ref>] "Internet, Innovation and Open Source: Actors in the Network" 2000 '']''</ref>

====Population Growth====
{{Main|World population|Human overpopulation}}

The world population has experienced ] since the end of the ] and the ] in 1350, when it stood at around 370&nbsp;million.<ref>Jean-Noël Biraben, 1980, "An Essay Concerning Mankind's Evolution", Population, Selected Papers, Vol. 4, pp. 1–13. Original paper in French: (b) Jean-Noël Biraben, 1979, "Essai sur l'évolution du nombre des hommes", Population, Vol. 34 (no. 1), pp. 13–25.
</ref> The highest rates of growth&nbsp;– global population increases above 1.8% per year&nbsp;– were seen briefly during the 1950s, and for a longer period during the 1960s and 1970s. The growth rate peaked at 2.2% in 1963, and had declined to 1.1% by 2011. Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 138&nbsp;million,<ref>UN World Population Prospects, the 2010 Revision: (686 million births from 1985–1990).</ref> and are now expected to remain essentially constant at their 2011 level of 134&nbsp;million, while deaths number 56&nbsp;million per year, and are expected to increase to 80&nbsp;million per year by 2040.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/region.php?N=%20Region%20Results%20&T=7&A=aggregate&RT=0&Y=2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024,2025,2026,2027,2028,2029,2030,2031,2032,2033,2034,2035,2036,2037,2038,2039,2040&R=1&C= |title=World Population estimates by the US Census Bureau}}</ref> Current projections show a continued increase in population (but a steady decline in the population growth rate), with the global population expected to reach 7.5 and 10.5&nbsp;billion by 2050.<ref name=WorldOMeterSite>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ |title=World Population Clock – Worldometers |publisher=Worldometers.info |accessdate=12 April 2012}}
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{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpopinfo.php |title=International Data Base (IDB) – World Population |publisher=Census.gov |date=28 June 2010 |accessdate=1 August 2010}}</ref>

The head of the ], stated in 2008 that the gradual change in diet among newly prosperous populations is the most important factor underpinning the ].<ref>von Braun, "High and Rising Food Prices", 2008, p 5, slide 14</ref> From 1950 to 1984, as the ] transformed agriculture around the world, grain production increased by over 250%.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kindall, Henery W & Pimentel, David|title=Constraints on the Expansion of the Global Food Supply |journal=Ambio. |volume=23 |issue=3 |date=May 1994 |url= http://dieoff.org/page36.htm |ref=harv}}</ref> ] has grown by about 4&nbsp;billion since the beginning of the Green Revolution and without it, there would be greater ] and ] than the UN presently documents (approximately 850 million people suffering from chronic malnutrition in 2005).<ref>"". BBC News. 29 March 2007.</ref><ref>"". The Guardian. 26 February 2008.</ref> With human consumption of seafood having doubled in the last 30 years, seriously depleting multiple seafood fisheries and destroying the marine ecosystem as a result, awareness is prompting steps to be taken to create a more sustainable seafood supply.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Jacquet J. L & D. Pauly|title=The rise of seafood awareness campaigns in an era of collapsing fisheries|journal=Marine Policy|year=2007|volume=31|pages=308–313 |doi=10.1016/j.marpol.2006.09.003|issue=3|ref=harv}}</ref>

]

It is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain ] in a world beset by a confluence of "peak" phenomena, namely ], ], ], ] and ]. Growing populations, falling energy sources and food shortages will create a "perfect storm" by 2030, according to UK chief government scientist John Beddington, who noted that food reserves were at a 50-year low and the world would require 50% more energy, food and water by 2030.<ref>"". The Guardian. 18 March 2009.</ref><ref>"". BBC News. 19 March 2009.</ref> The world will have to produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3&nbsp;billion people and as incomes rise, according to the United Nations' ] (FAO).<ref>"". Finfacts.com. 24 September 2009.</ref> Social scientists have warned of the possibility that global civilization is due for a period of contraction and economic re-localization due to a decline in fossil fuels and resulting crises in transportation and food production.<ref>Tainter, JA 1996. Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies. In Costanza, R, Segura,O & Martinez-Alier, J (eds) Getting Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological Economics. Washington, D.C.: Island Press:61–76.</ref><ref>Pimentel, D & Pimentel, M 2008. Food, Energy, and Society. 3rd edition. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press:137–159.</ref><ref>Catton, WR Jr 1980. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.</ref> Helga Vierich has predicted a restoration of sustainable local economic activities based on ], shifting ], and ].<ref>Helga Vierich "Before farming and after globalization: the future of hunter-gatherers may be brighter than you think", In Before Farming 2008/4 article 4(1). See also discussion at: </ref>

=====Urbanization=====
{{Main|Urbanization|Megacities}}
Growth in population during the period of rapid industrialization and globalization in the 20th century was accompanied by increased urbanization on a global basis. By 2011, the majority of the world's population lived in industrialized ]s featuring nearby factories and business offices rather than in traditional ] areas where agricultural activities predominate.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2013/2013-world-population-data-sheet.aspx | title=2013 World Population Data Sheet | publisher=Population Reference Bureau | year=2013}}</ref> Certain cities began to emerge as ] generally considered to be important centers of global economic activities. Megacities, cities having a population in excess of 10 million, grew in number from 3 in 1973 to 24 by 2013, with estimates of up to 27 by 2025.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Real Population Bomb | publisher=Potomac Books | author=Liotta, P.H and James F. Miskel | year=2012 | pages=264 | isbn=9781597975513}}</ref>

====Health====
{{Main|Global health|Globalization and disease}}

'''Global health''' is the ] of populations in a global context that transcends the perspectives and concerns of individual nations.<ref>The World Health Organization and the Transition From "International" to "Global" Public Health. Brown et al., AJPH: Jan 2006, Vol 96, No 1. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/96/1/62</ref> Health problems that transcend national borders or have a global political and economic impact are emphasized.<ref>{{cite book | last = Global Health Initiative | first = | authorlink = | title = Why Global Health Matters | publisher = FamiliesUSA | year = 2008 | location = Washington, DC| url = http://www.familiesusa.org/issues/global-health/matters/}}</ref> It has been defined as 'the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in ] people worldwide'.<ref name=Koplan>Koplan JP, Bond TC, Merson MH, et al; Consortium of Universities for Global Health Executive Board. Towards a common definition of global health. Lancet. 2009;373:1993–1995.</ref> Thus, global health is about worldwide improvement of health, reduction of disparities, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders.<ref>Macfarlane SB, Jacobs M, Kaaya EE. In the name of global health: trends in academic institutions. J Public Health Policy. 29(4):383–401. 2008</ref> The application of these principles to the domain of ] is called ].<ref name=Patel>Patel V, Prince M. Global mental health – a new global health field comes of age. JAMA. 2010;303:1976–1977.</ref>
] checkpoint at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport's International Arrivals in Terminal 1]]

The major international agency for health is the ] (WHO). Other important agencies with impact on global health activities include ], ] (WFP), ] International Institute for Global Health and the ]. A major initiative for improved global health is the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the globally endorsed ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ |title=Climate change deal reached in Durban |publisher=Un.org |accessdate=13 June 2012}}</ref>

International travel has helped to spread some of the deadliest ]s.<ref>Dr. Daulaire. ''Globalization and Health''. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/paldevelp/v_3a42_3ay_3a1999_3ai_3a4_3ap_3a22-24.htm</ref> Modern modes of transportation allow more people and products to travel around the world at a faster pace, but they also open the airways to the transcontinental movement of infectious disease vectors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nap.edu/books/0309100984/html/22.html |title=The Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control: Exploring the Consequences and Opportunities, Workshop Summary – Forum on Microbial Threats |publisher=Nap.edu |date=1 June 2003 |accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> One example of this occurring is ].<ref>"". ]. 30 October 2007.</ref> Due to immigration, approximately 500,000 people in the United States are believed to be infected with ].<ref>"", HealthCentral.com.</ref> In 2006, the ] (TB) rate among foreign-born persons in the United States was 9.5 times that of U.S.-born persons.<ref>"". CDC.gov. 23 March 2007 / 56(11);245–250.</ref> Starting in Asia, the ] killed at least one-third of Europe's population in the 14th century.<ref>Stéphane Barry and Norbert Gualde, in '']'' n° 310, June 2006, pp.45–46, say "between one-third and two-thirds"; Robert Gottfried (1983). "Black Death" in '']'', volume 2, pp.257–67, says "between 25 and 45&nbsp;percent".</ref> Even worse devastation was inflicted on the American supercontinent by European arrivals. 90% of the populations of the civilizations of the "]" such as the ], ], and ] were killed by ] brought by ].

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===Global natural environment===
{{Main|Natural environment|Natural resource|Natural capital}}
{{See also|Human ecology|Coupled human–environment system}}

The natural environment encompasses all ] and non-living things occurring ] on ] or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Johnson |first=D. L. |first2=S. H. |last2=Ambrose |first3=T. J. |last3=Bassett |first4=M. L. |last4=Bowen |first5=D. E. |last5=Crummey |first6=J. S. |last6=Isaacson |first7=D. N. |last7=Johnson |first8=P. |last8=Lamb |first9=M. |last9=Saul |first10=A. E. |last10=Winter-Nelson |year=1997 |title=Meanings of Environmental Terms |journal=Journal of Environmental Quality |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=581–589 |doi=10.2134/jeq1997.00472425002600030002x }}</ref> The natural environment is contrasted with the ], which comprises the areas and components that are strongly influenced by humans. It is difficult to find ''absolutely natural'' environments; it is common that the naturalness varies in a continuum, from ideally 100% natural in one extreme to 0% natural in the other. More precisely, we can consider the different aspects or components of an environment and see that their degree of naturalness is not uniform<ref>{{cite book |first=Donald |last=Symons |title=The Evolution of Human Sexuality |page=31 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1979 |location=New York |isbn=0-19-502535-0 }}</ref> but, instead, there exists a ].

] GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP) data set.]]

Human challenges to the natural environment, such as ], cross-boundary water and air ], ] of the ocean, and the spread of ] require at least transnational and, often, global solutions. Since factories in developing countries increased global output and experienced less environmental regulation, globally there have been substantial increases in pollution and its impact on water resources.<ref name="Hoekstra and Chapagain (2008)">Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater resources|url=http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405163356.html</ref>

'']'' 2006 report said India's and China's high economic growth was not sustainable. The report states, ''The world's ecological capacity is simply insufficient to satisfy the ambitions of China, India, Japan, Europe and the United States as well as the aspirations of the rest of the world in a sustainable way.''<ref name="bbc">"" BBC News. 12 January 2006.</ref> In a 2006 news story, ] reported, "...if China and India were to consume as much resources per capita as United States or Japan in 2030 together they would require a full planet Earth to meet their needs.<ref name="bbc"/> In the longterm these effects can lead to increased conflict over dwindling resources<ref>"". 26 September 2001. Retrieved on 19 June 2007</ref> and in the worst case a ].
International foreign investment in developing countries could lead to a "]" as countries lower their environmental and resource protection laws to attract foreign capital.<ref name="Bridges2002"/><ref>{{cite journal|last=Revesz|first=R.L|title=Federalism and Environmental Regulation: A Normative Critique. The New Federalism: Can the States Be Trusted?|year=1997|publisher=Hoover Institution Press|location= Stanford, CA|pages=97–127|ref=harv}}</ref> The reverse of this theory is true, however, when developed countries maintain positive environmental practices, imparting them to countries they are investing in and creating a "race to the top" phenomenon.<ref name="Bridges2002" />

]. The removal of forest to make way for ] was the leading cause of deforestation in the ] from the mid-1960s. ]s have become one of the most important contributors to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.<ref>"". BBC News. 24 January 2008.</ref>]]

The time between distances is shrinking between continents and countries due to globalization, causing developing and developed countries to find new ways to solve problems on a global rather than regional scale.
Agencies like the United Nations now must be the global regulators of pollution, whereas before, regional governance was enough.<ref>{{cite web|title=Global Environmental Governance|url=http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/ern/05aug/overview.php|work=Discovery Guides|publisher=ProQuest|accessdate=December 24, 2012}}</ref> Action has been taken by the United Nations to monitor and reduce atmospheric pollutants through the ], the ], and studies of air pollution and public policy.<ref>{{cite web|title=United Nations Air Pollution and Public Policy|url=http://esa.un.org/techcoop/flagship.asp?Code=CPR97008|work=United Nations Technical Co-operation|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=December 24, 2012}}</ref> Global traffic, production, and consumption are causing increased global levels of air pollutants. The northern hemisphere has been the leading producer of carbon monoxide and sulfur oxides.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Almqvist|first=E.|title=Ambio|year=2002|volume=3|pages=161–176.|ref=harv}}</ref>

Changes in natural capital are beginning to erode the economic logic of one major aspect of economic globalization: an ] and production based on global supply chains.<ref name="Curtis 2009 427–434">{{cite journal|last=Curtis|first=Fred|title=Peak Globalization: Climate Change, oil depletion, and global trade|journal=Ecological Economics|date=December 2009|volume=69|issue=2|pages=427–434|doi=10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.08.020}}</ref> ] for several key environmental resources have been reached and others are near their limits. Over time, peak oil and climate change may result in "peak globalization," measured in terms of decreasing ton-miles of freight transported, particularly across oceans and continents. The economic logic of the comparative advantage of global supply chains could be overcome by both increasing transportation costs and interruptions and delays in the transit of freight.<ref name="Curtis 2009 427–434"/>

China and India substantially increased their ] consumption as their economies switched from ] to industry and urbanization.<ref>, BBC News</ref><ref>"". The New York Times. 21 April 2008.</ref> Chinese oil consumption grew by 8% yearly between 2002 and 2006, doubling from 1996–2006.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/oilconsumption.html
|title=International Petroleum (Oil) Consumption Data
|publisher=U.S. Energy Information Administration
|accessdate=20 December 2007
}}</ref> In 2007, ] surpassed the United States as the top emitter of ].<ref>"". Guardian.co.uk. 19 June 2007.</ref>
Only 1 percent of the country's 560 million city inhabitants (2007) breathe air deemed safe by the ]. In effect, this means that developed countries may "outsource" some of the pollution associated with consumption in countries where pollution-intensive industries have been moved.

Societies utilize forest resources in order to reach a sustainable level of economic development. Historically, forests in earlier developing nations experience "]s", a period of deforestation and reforestation as a surrounding society becomes more developed, industrialized and shift their primary resource extraction to other nations via imports. For nations at the ] of the globalized system however, there are no others to shift their extraction onto, and forest degradation continues unabated. Forest transitions can have an effect on the hydrology, climate change, and biodiversity of an area by impacting water quality and the accumulation of greenhouse gases through the re-growth of new forest into second and third growth forests.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Rudel,R.L. & Coomes, O.T|title=Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change|year=2005|volume=15|pages=23–31.|ref=harv}}</ref><ref name="MeyfroidtLambin2011">Meyfroidt, P., Lambin, E.F. 2011. Global Forest Transition: Prospects for an End to Deforestation. ''Annual Review of Environment and Resources 36: 343–371</ref> A major source of ] is the ], driven by China and Japan.<ref>""</ref>

Without more recycling, ] could be used up by 2037, both ] and ] could run out by 2017, and ] could be gone by 2012.<ref>. ]. 23 May 2007.</ref> Other "peak" phenomena, such as ], ], ], ], and ], also affect the availability and ] of natural capital.

In 2003, 29% of open sea ] were in a state of collapse.<ref>"", BBC News. 2 November 2006.</ref> The journal '']'' published a four-year study in November 2006, which predicted that, at prevailing trends, the world would run out of wild-caught seafood in 2048.<ref>{{cite news
|author=Juliet Eilperin
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110200913.html
|title=Seafood Population Depleted by 2048, Study Finds
|work=The Washington Post
|date=2 November 2006}}</ref> Conversely, globalization created a global market for ], which as of 2009 was providing 38% of global output, potentially reducing fishing pressure.<ref>{{cite web|last=FAO|title=The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture|url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1820e/i1820e.pdf|publisher=]|accessdate=November 2011}}</ref>

The global trade in goods depends upon reliable, inexpensive transportation of freight along complex and long-distance supply chains.<ref name="Curtis 2009 427–434"/> Global warming and peak oil undermine globalization by their effects on both transportation costs and the reliable movement of freight. Countering the current geographic pattern of comparative advantage with higher transportation costs, climate change and peak oil would thus result in peak globalization, after which the volume of exports will decline as measured by ton-miles of freight.<ref>{{cite book|last=Held|first=David|title=Global Transformations|year=1999|publisher=Polity Press|location=Cambridge}}</ref>

===Global workforce===
{{Main|Global workforce|New international division of labour}}

'''Global workforce''' refers to the international labor pool of workers, including those ] by ] and connected through a global system of ] and ], ], transient ]s, ] workers, and those in ] and other ]. As of 2012, the global labor pool consisted of approximately 3 billion workers, around 200 million ].<ref name="ILO1">{{cite book | url=http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_202326.pdf | title=World of work report 2013: Repairing the economic and social fabric | publisher=International Labour Organisation, International Institute for Labour Studies | author=Torres, Raymond (ed.) | year=2013 | location=Geneva | isbn=978-9292510183}}</ref>

The global workforce, or international labor, reflects a new international division of labor that has been emerging since the late 1970s in the wake of other forces of globalization. The global economic factors driving the rise of multinational corporations – namely, cross-border movement of ], ], ] and ] – are changing ways of thinking about labor and the structure of today's workforce. With roots in the social processes surrounding the shift to ] and ], ] in the Western world has been accompanied by industrialization in other parts of the world, particularly in Asia. As industrialization takes hold worldwide and more cultures move away from ] practices in respect to work and labor, the ways in which ] think about and utilize labor are changing.

The global workforce is competitive and has been described as "a war for talent."<ref>Marin, Dalia and Theirry Verdier (2012). Globalization and the empowerment of talent. ''Journal of International Economics'' 86(2): 209–223.</ref> This competitiveness is due, in part, to communications technologies that assist companies to attain multinational status. Communication technologies also allow companies to find workers without limiting their search locally, a process known as ]. An example of this war for talent is the phenomenon of foreign executives appointed into headquarter positions of local organisations.<ref name="Arp, F., Hutchings, K., & Smith, W.A. (2013). Foreign executives in local organisations: An exploration of differences to other types of expatriates. Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, 1(3), 312–335; {{ISSN|2049-8799}}; DOI:10.1108/JGM-01-2013-0006">{{Cite web| url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JGM-01-2013-0006 | title = Foreign executives in local organisations: An exploration of differences to other types of expatriates. | accessdate = 26 November 2013 | publisher = Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, 1(3), 312–335; DOI:10.1108/JGM-01-2013-0006}}</ref><ref name="Foreign Executives in Local Organisations">{{Cite web| url = http://FELOresearch.info/further-reading/ | title = Foreign Executives in Local Organisations | year = 2011 | accessdate = 26 Nov 2013 | publisher = FELOresearch.info}}</ref>

However, production workers and service workers in advanced economies have been unable to compete directly with much lower-cost workers in developing countries.<ref name="ReferenceA">Reich, Robert. (1992). ''The Work of the Nations, Preparing Ourselves for 21st century Capitalism''. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf,</ref> Low-wage countries gained the low-value-added element of work formerly done in rich countries, while higher-value work remained; for instance, the total number of people employed in manufacturing in the US declined, but value added per worker increased.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/18484080|accessdate=16 April 2011|title=Economics focus: Cash machines &#124; The Economist|date=16 April 2011}}</ref>

There are many examples of this movement of labor into developing economies. Two examples can be found in China and South Africa. Chinese success cost jobs in other developing countries as well as in the West.<ref>"". Reuters. 23 March 2010.</ref> From 2000 to 2007, the U.S. lost a total of 3.2&nbsp;million manufacturing jobs.<ref>"". USATODAY.com. 20 April 2007.</ref> As of 26 April 2005 "In regional giant ], some 300,000 textile workers have lost their jobs in the past two years due to the influx of Chinese goods".<ref>"". '']''. 26 April 2005</ref>

In Europe, in 2012, the unemployment rate hit a record high at 11.8% with 18.8 million people out of jobs with youth unemployment at a new high, according to Eurostat.<ref>{{cite web|last=Zaw|first=HayMann|title=Unemployment in Europe: get the figures for every country|url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/31/europe-unemployment-rate-by-country-eurozone|work=Student|publisher=The Gurdian|accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref> The rate of unemployed youth in Spain increased to over 56%, and in Greece to 62.5% in early 2013.<ref>{{cite web|last=Thompson|first=Derek|title=Europe's Record Youth Unemployment: The Scariest Graph in the World Just Got Scarier|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/europes-record-youth-unemployment-the-scariest-graph-in-the-world-just-got-scarier/276423|publisher=The Atlantic}}</ref> Research shows that young people in Europe, themselves, are also worried for their future.<ref>{{cite web|last=Zaw|first=HayMann|title=Young people 'worried about unemployment'|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/21885919|publisher=BBC|accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref>

Noble Prize winning economist Michale Spence writes, “The massive changes in the global economy since World War II have had overwhelmingly positive effects. Hundreds of millions of people in the developing world have escaped poverty, and more will in the future. The global economy will continue to grow – probably at least threefold over the next 30 years. One person's gain is not necessarily another's loss; global growth is not even close to a zero-sum game. But globalization hurts some subgroups within some countries, including the advanced economies.”<ref>{{cite web|last=Zaw|first=HayMann|title=Globalization and Unemployment|url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67874/michael-spence/globalization-and-unemployment|publisher=The Council On Foreign Affairs|accessdate=1 September 2013}}</ref>

====International migration====
{{Main|Human migration|Foreign worker|List of countries by net migration rate}}

Many countries have some form of ] with policies similar to those found in the U.S. that permit U.S. employers to sponsor non-U.S. citizens as laborers for approximately three years, to be ] afterwards if they have not yet obtained a ]. As of 2009, over 1,000,000 guest workers reside in the US; the largest program, the ], has 650,000 workers in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|last=North|first=David|title=Estimating the Size of the H-1B Population in the U.S.|url=http://www.cis.org/estimating-h1b-population-2-11|publisher=Center for Immigration Studies}}</ref> and the second-largest, the ], has 350,000.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hira|first=Ron|title=Bridge to Immigration or Cheap Temporary Labor?|url=http://epi.3cdn.net/60b75ba377ebc081b5_hem6b5qjc.pdf|publisher=Economic Policy Institute}}</ref> Many other ] exist for guest workers as well, including the ], which allows farmers to bring in an unlimited number of agricultural guest workers. The United States ran a Mexican guest-worker program in the period 1942–1964, known as the ].
]'s population consists of migrant workers, a majority of whom are from India.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Migrants demand labour rights in Gulf |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7266610.stm |newspaper=BBC |date=27 February 2008 |first=Roger |last=Hardy}}</ref>]]

An article in '']'' criticized such guest worker programs by equating the visiting workers to ]s, who would never be able to gain citizenship and would have less residential rights than Americans.<ref></ref>

Migration of educated and skilled workers is called ]. For example, the U.S. welcomes many nurses to come work in the country.<ref>Arends-Kuenning, Mary. (2006). The Balance of Care: Trends in the Wages and Employment of Immigrant Nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000. ''Globalizations'' 3(3): 333–48. See also: </ref> The brain drain from Europe to the United States means that some 400,000 European science and technology graduates now live in the U.S. and most have no intention to return to Europe.<ref>{{cite news | first= Jeff| last= Chu| title=How To Plug Europe's Brain Drain | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,574849-1,00.html |work=Time magazine | date= 11 January 2004| id= | ref= harv | postscript= <!--DASHBot-->{{inconsistent citations}} }}</ref> Nearly 14 million immigrants came to the United States from 2000 to 2010.<ref>"". Yahoo! News. 6 October 2011.</ref>

Immigrants to the United States and their children founded more than 40 percent of the 2010 ] companies. They founded seven of the ten most valuable brands in the world.<ref>. The partnership for a new American economy. June 2011</ref>

] is the movement of ] from a more developed country to a less developed country. It is considered a logical outcome of a calculated strategy where migrants accumulate savings and develop skills overseas that can be used in their home country.<ref>Stark, O & Bloom, D.E. (1985). The new economics of labor migration. The American Economic Review. 75(2) p.173–178.</ref>

Reverse brain drain can occur when scientists, engineers, or other intellectual elites migrate to a less developed country to learn in its universities, perform research, or gain working experience in areas where education and employment opportunities are limited in their home country. These professionals then return to their home country after several years of experience to start a related business, teach in a university, or work for a multi-national in their home country.<ref name="Nature-Feb09">{{cite journal |last=Cyranoski |first=David |date=19 February 2009 |journal=] |volume=457 |issue=7232 |pages=953–5 |quote=High-temperature superconductor specialist Hong Ding had several attractive offers last year. But neither Boston University in Massachusetts, where he had been for a decade, nor any other institution could match the deal he was offered at the Institute of Physics in Beijing. "It is a matter of time before the United States becomes alarmed by this rapid '''reverse of the brain drain'''," says Ding. Dessau, who tried and failed to recruit Ding, says that "10 years ago it would have been unheard of . But I wouldn't be surprised if the trend continues." |doi=10.1038/457953a |pmid=19225494 |title=Materials science: China's crystal cache |ref=harv}}</ref>

A ] is a ] by a ] to his or her home country. Remittances are playing an increasingly large role in the economies of many countries, contributing to economic growth and to the livelihoods of less prosperous people (though generally not the poorest of the poor). According to ] estimates, remittances totaled ]414 billion in 2009, of which ]316 billion went to developing countries that involved 192 million ]s.<ref name="go.worldbank.org">{{cite web|url=http://go.worldbank.org/NPD63OTRR0 |title=Payment Systems and Remittances – Remittance Market Outlook |publisher=Go.worldbank.org |date=30 March 2009 |accessdate=13 June 2012}}</ref> For some individual recipient countries, remittances can be as high as a third of their GDP.<ref name="go.worldbank.org"/> As remittance receivers often have a higher propensity to own a bank account, remittances promote access to financial services for the sender and recipient, an essential aspect of leveraging remittances to promote economic development. The top recipients in terms of the share of remittances in ] included many smaller economies such as ] (45%), ] (38%), and ] (25%).<ref>. 18 February 2009.</ref>

The ] found more than 200 million migrants around the world in 2008,<ref>"". Stephen Castles, University of Oxford. Mark J. Miller, University of Delaware. July 2009.</ref> including ].<ref>"", BBC News, 18 May 2004.</ref><ref>"". FOXNews.com, 2 December 2008</ref> ] flows to developing countries reached ]328&nbsp;billion in 2008 and new projections on remittance flows to developing countries show they are expected to reach ]515 billion in 2015.<ref>"". The World Bank.</ref>

A ] is a ] between two people from different countries. A variety of special issues arise in marriages between people from different countries, including those related to ] and culture, which add complexity and challenges to these kinds of relationships. In an age of increasing globalization, where a growing number of people have ties to networks of people and places across the globe, rather than to a current geographic location, people are increasingly marrying across national boundaries. Transnational marriage is a by-product of the movement and migration of people.

==Support and criticism==
Reactions to processes contributing to globalization have varied widely with a history as long as extraterritorial contact and trade. ] differences regarding the costs and benefits of such processes give rise to a broad-range of ] and ]. Proponents of ], ] and ], in general, view globalizing processes as desirable or necessary to the well-being of human ].<ref name=Sen1970>Sen, Amartya K. (1970). ''Collective choice and social welfare.'' San Francisco, CA: Holden-Day.</ref> Antagonists view one or more globalizing processes as detrimental to social well-being on a global or local scale;<ref name=Sen1970 /> this includes those who question either the ] or ] ] of long-term and continuous economic expansion, the social ] caused by these processes, and the ], ], or ] ], ] and ] that underlie such processes.

As summarized by ]:

{{quote|The dominant ] systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist." This is simply vulgar propaganda, like the term "anti-Soviet" used by the most disgusting commissars to refer to dissidents. It is not only vulgar, but idiotic. Take the ] (WSF), called "anti-globalization" in the propaganda system – which happens to include the media, the educated classes, etc., with rare exceptions. The WSF is a paradigm example of globalization. It is a gathering of huge numbers of people from all over the world, from just about every corner of life one can think of, apart from the extremely narrow highly privileged elites who meet at the competing ], and are called "pro-globalization" by the propaganda system.<ref></ref>}}

===Proponents===
In general, corporate businesses, particularly in the area of ], see globalization as a positive force in the world. Many ] cite statistics that seem to support such positive impact. For example, per capita ] (GDP) growth among post-1980 globalizing countries accelerated from 1.4 percent a year in the 1960s and 2.9 percent a year in the 1970s to 3.5 percent in the 1980s and 5.0 percent in the 1990s. This acceleration in growth seems even more remarkable given that the rich countries saw steady declines in growth from a high of 4.7 percent in the 1960s to 2.2 percent in the 1990s. Also, the non-globalizing developing countries seem to fare worse than the globalizers, with the former's annual growth rates falling from highs of 3.3 percent during the 1970s to only 1.4 percent during the 1990s. This rapid growth among the globalizers is not simply due to the strong performances of China and India in the 1980s and 1990s – 18 out of the 24 globalizers experienced increases in growth, many of them quite substantial.<ref name="DDollar">{{cite web|last=Dollar, David|first=Kraay, Aart|title=Trade, Growth, and Poverty|url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/09/dollar.htm|work=Finance and Development|publisher=International Monetary Fund|accessdate=6 June 2011}}</ref>

====Economic liberalism and free trade====
{{Main|Economic liberalism|Neoliberalism}}
] and ] of China meet while attending an ] summit in Santiago de Chile, 2004]]

]s and ] generally argue that higher degrees of political and ] in the form of ] in the developed world are ends in themselves, producing higher levels of overall material wealth. Globalization is seen as the beneficial spread of ] and ].<ref name="The End of Poverty">{{cite book | last = Sachs | first = Jeffrey | year = 2005 | title = The End of Poverty | publisher=The Penguin Press | location = New York, New York | isbn = 1-59420-045-9}}</ref> ], a former adviser to the U.N. on globalization, holds that, although there are obvious problems with overly rapid development, globalization is a very positive force that lifts countries out of poverty by causing a virtuous economic cycle associated with faster economic growth.<ref name="bhagwati">{{cite book | last = Bhagwati | first = Jagdish | title = In Defense of Globalization | publisher=Oxford University Press | year = 2004 | location = Oxford, New York | url = | id = | isbn = }}</ref> Economist ] is another staunch supporter of globalization and free trade with a record of disagreeing with many critics of globalization. He argues that many of them lack a basic understanding of ] and its importance in today's world.<ref>Conversi, Daniele (2009) '', in B. Turner (ed.) Handbook of Globalization Studies. London: Routledge/ Taylor & Francis; Barkawi, Tarak (2005) Globalization and War. Rowman & Littlefield; Smith, Dennis (2006) Gobalization: The Hidden Agenda. Cambridge: Polity Press. See also Barber, Benjamin R., ]. Ballantine Books, 1996</ref>

The flow of migrants to advanced economic countries has been claimed to provide a means through which global wages converge. An IMF study noted a potential for skills to be transferred back to developing countries as wages in those a countries rise.<ref name="12th April 2000: IMF Publications"/> Lastly, the dissemination of knowledge has been an integral aspect of globalization. Technological innovations (or technological transfer) is conjectured to benefit most the developing and least developing countries (LDCs), as for example in the adoption of ].<ref name="Saggi2002" />

There has been a rapid economic growth in Asia after embracing ]-based economic policies that encourage private ], free enterprise and competition. In particular, in East Asian developing countries, ] per head rose at 5.9% a year from 1975 to 2001 (according to 2003 ]<ref>{{cite web|year=2003|url= http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr03_complete.pdf|title=Human Development Report 2003|publisher=UNDP|accessdate=2013-04-06}}</ref> of UNDP). Like this, the British economic journalist ] says that incomes of poor developing countries, with more than half the world’s population, grew substantially faster than those of the world’s richest countries that remained relatively stable in its growth, leading to reduced international inequality and the incidence of poverty.

Certain demographic changes in the developing world after active ] and international integration resulted in rising general welfare and, hence, reduced inequality. According to Wolf, in the developing world as a whole, life expectancy rose by four months each year after 1970 and infant mortality rate declined from 107 per thousand in 1970 to 58 in 2000 due to improvements in ] and health conditions. Also, adult literacy in developing countries rose from 53% in 1970 to 74% in 1998 and much lower illiteracy rate among the young guarantees that rates will continue to fall as time passes. Furthermore, the reduction in ] in the developing world as a whole from 4.1 births per woman in 1980 to 2.8 in 2000 indicates improved education level of women on fertility, and control of fewer children with more parental attention and investment.<ref name = "Incensed about Inequality in 'Why Globalization Works'">{{cite web
|url= http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300107777|title= Why Globalization Works|publisher= ]|author= Martin Wolf|year = 2004|accessdate=2013-04-06}}</ref> Consequentially, more prosperous and educated parents with fewer children have chosen to withdraw their children from the labor force to give them opportunities to be educated at school improving the issue of ]. Thus, despite seemingly unequal ] within these developing countries, their economic growth and development have brought about improved standards of living and welfare for the population as a whole.
] in both developed and developing countries, ] has a more beneficial impact than trade openness, sound political institutions, and foreign investment.<ref name=BergOstryEE>{{Cite journal |last= Berg |first= Andrew G. |last2= Ostry |first2= Jonathan D. |year= 2011 |title= Equality and Efficiency |journal= Finance and Development |volume= 48 |issue= 3 |publisher= International Monetary Fund |url= http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/09/berg.htm |accessdate= September 10, 2012}}</ref>]]

====Global democracy====
{{Main|Democratic globalization}} {{Main|Democratic globalization}}


'''Democratic globalization''' is a movement towards an institutional system of global ] that would give world citizens a say in political organizations. This would, in their view, bypass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological ]s (NGO), political cults and mafias. One of its most prolific proponents is the ] political thinker ]. Advocates of ] argue that economic expansion and development should be the first phase of democratic globalization, which is to be followed by a phase of building ]. Dr. ], Director of the United States Association of the ], advocates unifying nations under a ], suggesting that it "should reflect the political and economic balances of world nations. A world confederation would not supersede the authority of the State governments but rather complement it, as both the States and the world authority would have power within their sphere of competence".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usacor.org/archive/index.html |title=USACOR.org |publisher=USACOR.org |date=28 July 2009 |accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> Former ] ], ], viewed globalization as inevitable and advocated creating institutions such as a ] ] to exercise oversight over unelected international bodies.<ref>{{cite web|last=Roche|first=Douglas|title=The Case for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly|url=http://www.wfm-igp.org/site/files/Roche_UN_Parliamentary_Assembly_2002.pdf|publisher=The World Federalist Movement–Institute for Global Policy|accessdate=28 May 2012}}</ref> Democratic globalization is a movement towards an institutional system of global ] that would give world citizens a say in political organizations. This would, in their view, bypass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological ]s (NGO), political cults and mafias. One of its most prolific proponents is the British political thinker ]. Advocates of ] argue that economic expansion and development should be the first phase of democratic globalization, which is to be followed by a phase of building ]. ], Director of the United States Association of the ], advocates unifying nations under a ], suggesting that it "should reflect the political and economic balances of world nations. A world confederation would not supersede the authority of the State governments but rather complement it, as both the States and the world authority would have power within their sphere of competence".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usacor.org/archive/index.html |title=USACOR.org |publisher=USACOR.org |date=28 July 2009 |access-date=31 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520180352/http://www.usacor.org/archive/index.html |archive-date=20 May 2010 }}</ref> Former ] ], ], viewed globalization as inevitable and advocated creating institutions such as a ] ] to exercise oversight over unelected international bodies.<ref>{{cite web|last=Roche|first=Douglas|title=The Case for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly|url=http://www.wfm-igp.org/site/files/Roche_UN_Parliamentary_Assembly_2002.pdf|publisher=The World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy|access-date=28 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531054746/http://www.wfm-igp.org/site/files/Roche_UN_Parliamentary_Assembly_2002.pdf|archive-date=31 May 2013}}</ref>


===Global civics===
=====International cooperation=====
'''Military cooperation'''&nbsp;– Past examples of international cooperation exist. One example is the security cooperation between the United States and the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War, which astonished international society. Arms control and disarmament agreements, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (see ], ], ], and ]) and the establishment of ]’s Partnership for Peace, the Russia NATO Council, and the ] Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, constitute concrete initiatives of arms control and de-nuclearization. The U.S.–Russian cooperation was further strengthened by anti-terrorism agreements enacted in the wake of 9/11.<ref name="globalpolicyjournal1">{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/brookings-audit/international-cooperation-stepping-stone-world-government |title=International cooperation as a stepping-stone to a world government &#124; Global Policy Journal – Practitioner, Academic, Global Governance, International Law, Economics, Security, Institutions, Comment & Opinion, Media, Events, Journal |publisher=Global Policy Journal |accessdate=2013-06-15}}</ref>

'''Environmental cooperation'''&nbsp;– One of the biggest successes of environmental cooperation has been the agreement to reduce chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) emissions, as specified in the ], in order to stop ozone depletion. The most recent debate around nuclear energy and the non-alternative coal-burning power plants constitutes one more consensus on what not to do. Thirdly, significant achievements in IC can be observed through development studies.<ref name="globalpolicyjournal1"/>

====Global civics====
], ]. Four identical sculptures are located in ], ]; ], ]; ], ] and ], ]]]
{{Main|Global civics|Multiculturalism}} {{Main|Global civics|Multiculturalism}}
{{See also|Global citizenship}} {{See also|Global citizenship}}


Global civics suggests that ] can be understood, in a global sense, as a ] between ] in the age of interdependence and interaction. The disseminators of the concept define it as the notion that we have certain rights and responsibilities towards each other by the mere fact of being human on Earth.<ref name = case>{{Cite journal| last = Altinay| first = Hakan| title =The Case for Global Civics| journal = Global Economy and Development at Brookings| year = 2010 | url = http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/03_global_civics_altinay.aspx}}</ref> ] has a variety of similar meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional ] divisions derived from national ]. An early incarnation of this sentiment can be found in ], who ] quoted as saying: "I am not an Athenian, or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."<ref></ref> In an increasingly interdependent world, world citizens need a compass to frame their mindsets and create a shared consciousness and sense of global responsibility in world issues such as environmental problems and ].<ref name = feasible>{{cite journal | last = Altinay| first = Hakan| title= A Global Civics: Necessary? Feasible?| journal = Global Policy| date = June 2010| url = http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/international-law-and-human-rights/global-civics-necessary-feasible}}</ref> Global civics suggests that ] can be understood, in a global sense, as a ] between ] in the age of interdependence and interaction. The disseminators of the concept define it as the notion that we have certain rights and responsibilities towards each other by the mere fact of being human on Earth.<ref name=case>{{Cite journal|last=Altinay |first=Hakan |title=The Case for Global Civics |journal=Global Economy and Development at Brookings |year=2010 |url=http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/03_global_civics_altinay.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603104201/http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/03_global_civics_altinay.aspx |archive-date=3 June 2010 }}</ref> ] has a variety of similar meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional ] divisions derived from national ]. An early incarnation of this sentiment can be found in ], whom ] quoted as saying: "I am not an Athenian, or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wcaa.org.au/|title=Global Parliament &#124; World Citizens Association (Australia)|website=australia|access-date=19 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819194210/https://www.wcaa.org.au/|archive-date=19 August 2019}}</ref> In an increasingly interdependent world, world citizens need a compass to frame their mindsets and create a shared consciousness and sense of global responsibility in world issues such as environmental problems and ].<ref name = feasible>{{cite journal| last = Altinay| first = Hakan| title = A Global Civics: Necessary? Feasible?| journal = Global Policy| date = June 2010| url = http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/international-law-and-human-rights/global-civics-necessary-feasible| access-date = 16 July 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120926193551/http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/international-law-and-human-rights/global-civics-necessary-feasible| archive-date = 26 September 2012}}</ref>


Baha'i-inspired author Meyjes, while favoring the single world community and emergent global consciousness, warns of globalization<ref>{{cite book| chapter = Language and Universalization: a 'Linguistic Ecology' Reading of Bahá'í Writ | first = Gregory Paul | last = Meyjes (also: Posthumus Meyjes) | title = The Journal of Bahá'í Studies | publisher = Association for Bahá'í Studies | volume =IX (1) | year =1999 | location = Ottawa | pages = 51–63 }}</ref> as a cloak for an expeditious economic, social, and cultural Anglo-dominance that is insufficiently inclusive to inform the emergence of an optimal world civilization. He proposes a process of "]" as an alternative.
] is the proposal that all human ethnic groups belong to a single ] based on a shared ]. A person who adheres to the idea of cosmopolitanism in any of its forms is called a cosmopolitan or cosmopolite.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cosmopolitan|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cosmopolitan?s=t|work=Dictionary.com|accessdate=7 April 2012}}</ref> A cosmopolitan community might be based on an inclusive morality, a shared economic relationship, or a political structure that encompasses different nations. The cosmopolitan community is one in which individuals from different places (e.g. nation-states) form relationships based on mutual respect. For instance, ] suggests the possibility of a cosmopolitan community in which individuals from varying locations (physical, economic, etc.) enter relationships of mutual respect despite their differing beliefs (religious, political, etc.).<ref>Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Cosmopolitan Patriots," Critical Inquiry 23, no. 3 (Spring, 1997): 617–639.</ref>


] is the proposal that all human ethnic groups belong to a single ] based on a shared ]. A person who adheres to the idea of cosmopolitanism in any of its forms is called a cosmopolitan or cosmopolite.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cosmopolitan|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cosmopolitan?s=t|work=Dictionary.com|access-date=7 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102020627/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cosmopolitan?s=t|archive-date=2 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> A cosmopolitan community might be based on an inclusive morality, a shared economic relationship, or a political structure that encompasses different nations. The cosmopolitan community is one in which individuals from different places (e.g. nation-states) form relationships based on mutual respect. For instance, ] suggests the possibility of a cosmopolitan community in which individuals from varying locations (physical, economic, etc.) enter relationships of mutual respect despite their differing beliefs (religious, political, etc.).<ref>Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Cosmopolitan Patriots," Critical Inquiry 23, no. 3 (Spring, 1997): 617–39.</ref>
Canadian philosopher ] popularized the term '']'' beginning in 1962.<ref>Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers (17 September 1992) The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st century . Oxford University Press: 17 September 1992</ref> His view suggested that globalization would lead to a world where people from all countries will become more integrated and aware of common interests and shared humanity.<ref>Chapman, Roger. ''Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices, Volume 1.'' 2009: M.E.Sharp</ref>


Canadian philosopher ] popularized the term '']'' beginning in 1962.<ref>Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers (17 September 1992) The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st century . Oxford University Press: 17 September 1992</ref> His view suggested that globalization would lead to a world where people from all countries will become more integrated and aware of common interests and shared humanity.<ref>Chapman, Roger. ''Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices, Volume 1.'' 2009: M.E. Sharp</ref>
===Critiques===
{{Main|Criticisms of globalization}}


===International cooperation===
Critiques of globalization generally stem from discussions surrounding the impact of such processes on the planet as well as the human costs. They challenge directly traditional metrics, such as GDP, and look to other measures, such as the ] <ref></ref> or the ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.happyplanetindex.org/ |title=The Happy Planet Index |publisher=Neweconomics.org |accessdate=2 June 2013}}</ref> and point to a "multitude of interconnected fatal consequences–social disintegration, a breakdown of democracy, more rapid and extensive deterioration of the environment, the spread of new diseases, increasing poverty and alienation"<ref name="The Hidden Connections">{{cite book | last = Capra | first = Fritjof | year = 2002 | title = The Hidden Connections | publisher=Random House | location = New York, New York | isbn = 0-385-49471-8}}</ref> which they claim are the unintended consequences of globalization.
] and ] after signing the ] treaty in Prague, 2010]]
'''Military cooperation'''&nbsp;– Past examples of international cooperation exist. One example is the security cooperation between the United States and the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War, which astonished international society. Arms control and disarmament agreements, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (see ], ], ], and ]) and the establishment of ]'s Partnership for Peace, the Russia NATO Council, and the ] Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, constitute concrete initiatives of arms control and de-nuclearization. The US–Russian cooperation was further strengthened by anti-terrorism agreements enacted in the wake of 9/11.<ref name="globalpolicyjournal1">{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/brookings-audit/international-cooperation-stepping-stone-world-government|title=International cooperation as a stepping-stone to a world government|publisher=Global Policy Journal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203072547/http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/brookings-audit/international-cooperation-stepping-stone-world-government|archive-date=3 December 2013|access-date=15 June 2013}}</ref>


'''Environmental cooperation'''&nbsp;– One of the biggest successes of environmental cooperation has been the agreement to reduce ] (CFC) emissions, as specified in the ], in order to stop ozone depletion. The most recent debate around nuclear energy and the non-alternative coal-burning power plants constitutes one more consensus on what not to do. Thirdly, significant achievements in IC can be observed through development studies.<ref name="globalpolicyjournal1"/>
], 2009]]


'''Economic cooperation''' – One of the biggest challenges in 2019 with globalization is that many believe the progress made in the past decades are now back tracking. The back tracking of globalization has coined the term "Slobalization." Slobalization is a new, slower pattern of globalization.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Slowbalisation |magazine=The Economist |volume=430 |issue=9127 |date=Jan 26, 2019 |id={{ProQuest|2171135679}}}}</ref>
Criticisms have arisen from church groups, national liberation factions, ], intellectuals, artists, ]s, ], those in support of ] (e.g., consumption of nearby production) and others. Some have been ] in nature, (arguing for a more moderate form of capitalism) while others are more revolutionary (power shift from private to public control) or ] (public to private).


===Anti-globalization movement===
Some critics of globalization argue that it harms the diversity of cultures. As a dominating country’s culture is introduced into a receiving country through globalization, it can become a threat to the diversity of local culture. Some argue that globalization may ultimately lead to ] or ] of culture, where the dominating cultural concepts of economically and politically powerful Western countries spread and cause harm on local cultures.

Some opponents of globalization see the phenomenon as a promotion of ] interests.<ref>{{cite news
| first = Laurence
| last = Lee
| title = WTO blamed for India grain suicides
| url = http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2ED53A8B-1058-49CF-B9FF-3D96639456D1.htm
|publisher=Al Jazeera
| date = 17 May 2007
| accessdate =17 May 2007
}}</ref> They also claim that the increasing autonomy and strength of ] shapes the political policy of countries.<ref name="The Corporation">{{cite book | last = Bakan | first = Joel | authorlink =Joel Bakan | year = 2004 | title = The Corporation | publisher=Simon & Schuster | location = New York, New York | isbn = 0-7432-4744-2}}</ref><ref name="Confessions of an Economic Hit Man">{{cite book | last = Perkins | first = John | authorlink = John Perkins (author)| year = 2004 | title = Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | publisher=Berrett-Koehler | location = San Francisco, California | isbn = 1-57675-301-8}}</ref> They advocate global institutions and policies that they believe better address the moral claims of poor and working classes as well as environmental concerns.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2&id_menu= |title=Fórum Social Mundial |publisher=Forumsocialmundial.org.br |accessdate=31 July 2010}}</ref> Economic arguments by ] theorists claim that unrestricted free trade benefits those with more ] (i.e. the rich) at the expense of the poor.<ref></ref>

Critics argue that globalization results in:

* '''Poorer countries suffering disadvantages''': While it is true that free trade encourages globalization among countries, some countries try to protect their domestic suppliers. The main export of poorer countries is usually ]s. Larger countries often subsidise their ] (e.g., the EU's ]), which lowers the market price for foreign crops.<ref name="Hurst E. Charles P.41">Hurst E. Charles. Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and consequences, 6th ed. P.41</ref>
Joseph Stiglitz argues that countries that have managed globalization on their own have succeeded in reaping benefits from globalization, while countries that were economically managed by international institutions such as the IMF have not gained as much from globalization.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lechner|first=Frank|title=The Globalization Reader|year=2011|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell; 4th ed.|isbn=978-0470655634}}</ref>
* '''The shift to ]''': Globalization allowed corporations to move manufacturing and service jobs from high cost locations, creating economic opportunities with the most competitive wages and worker benefits.<ref name="Kuruvilla 2008 39–72"/>
], on ], 2006]]
* '''Weak ]''': The surplus in cheap labor coupled with an ever growing number of companies in transition weakened labor unions in high-cost areas. Unions lose their effectiveness and workers their enthusiasm for unions when membership begins to decline.<ref name="Hurst E. Charles P.41"/>
* '''An increase in exploitation of ]''': Countries with weak protections for children are vulnerable to infestation by rogue companies and criminal gangs who exploit them. Examples include ]ing, salvage, and farm work as well as trafficking, bondage, forced labor, prostitution and pornography.<ref name="Edmonds_Pavcni">{{cite journal
| last = Pavcnik
| first = Nina
|date=September 2005
| title = Child Labor in the Global Economy
| journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives
| volume = 19
| issue = 1
| pages = 199–220
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], the director and founder of ISEC, criticizes globalization in many ways. In her book '']'', Norberg-Hodge claims that "centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from the pressures of development and globalization." She also criticizes the standardization and rationalization of globalization, as it does not always yield the expected growth outcomes. Although globalization takes similar steps in most countries, scholars such as Hodge claim that it might not be effective to certain countries, for globalization has actually moved some countries backward instead of developing them.<ref>{{cite book|last=Norberg-Hodge|first=Helena|title=Ancient futures : learning from Ladakh|year=1992|publisher=Sierra Club Books|location=San Francisco|isbn=0871566435|edition=Sierra Club Books pbk.}}</ref>

====Anti-globalization movement====
{{Main|Anti-globalization movement}} {{Main|Anti-globalization movement}}
] demonstration in ], Germany, 2016]]


Anti-globalization, or counter-globalisation,<ref>] (May 2004) '''', speech at the party for 50 years of '']''</ref> consists of a number of criticisms of globalization but, in general, is critical of the globalization of ].<ref>Morris, Douglas "Globalization and Media Democracy: The Case of Indymedia", ''Shaping the Network Society'', ] 2003. Courtesy link to (pre-publication version) </ref> The movement is also commonly referred to as the ] movement, anti-globalist movement, ] globalization movement,<ref name=Juris>{{cite book | last = Juris | first = Jeffrey S. | title =Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization | publisher = Duke University Press | location = Durham | year = 2008 | page = 2 | isbn = 978-0-8223-4269-4}}</ref> or movement against ] globalization. It can be explained as encompassing the ideologies present in the following other “movements”, which will be discussed below: opposition to capital market integration, social justice and inequality, anti-consumerism, anti-global governance and environmentalist opposition. Each of these ideologies can be framed around a specific strand of the anti-globalization movement, but in general the movement gears their efforts towards all of these primary principles. It is considered a rather new and modern day social movement, as the issues it is fighting against are relevant in today’s time. However, the events that occurred which fuels the movement can be traced back through the lineage of the movement of a 500-year old history of resistance against European colonialism and U.S. imperialism.<ref name="stwr.org">Engler, M. (2007, May 30). The Anti-Globalization Movement Defined&nbsp;— STWR&nbsp;– Share The World's Resources. Share The World’s Resources&nbsp;— STWR. Retrieved March 14, 2013, from http://www.stwr.org/the-un-people-politics/the-anti-globalization-movement-defined.html</ref> This refers to the continent of Africa being colonized and stripped of their resources by the Europeans in the 19th century. It is also related closely with the anti-Vietnam war mobilizations between 1960 and1970, with worldwide protests against the adjustment of structure in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Although British sociologist ] and political economist Grahame F. Thompson note the term is vague;<ref>Thompson, Grahame F. and Paul Q. Hirst. (2002). The Future of Globalisation." In ''Cooperation and Conflict'', 37(3): 247–265. {{doi|10.1177/0010836702037003671}} </ref> "anti-globalization movement" activities may include attempts to demonstrate sovereignty, practice local democratic decision-making, or restrict the international transfer of people, goods and capitalist ideologies, particularly ] deregulation. Canadian author and social activist ] argues that the term could denote either a single ] or encompass multiple social movements such as nationalism and socialism.<ref>{{cite book|title=No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs |first=Naomi |last=Klein|publisher=Picador |date=6 April 2002 |isbn= 0-312-42143-5}}</ref> Bruce Podobnik, a sociologist at Lewis and Clark College, states that "the vast majority of groups that participate in these protests draw on international networks of support, and they generally call for forms of globalization that enhance democratic representation, human rights, and egalitarianism."<ref>Podobnik, Bruce, ''Resistance to Globalization: Cycles and Evolutions in the Globalization Protest Movement'', p. 2.</ref> Economists ] and Andrew Charlton write: Anti-globalization, or counter-globalization,<ref>] (May 2004) '' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719035915/http://mondediplo.com/2004/11/06derrida |date=19 July 2017 }}'', speech at the party for 50 years of '']''</ref> consists of a number of criticisms of globalization but, in general, is critical of the globalization of ].<ref>Morris, Douglas "Globalization and Media Democracy: The Case of Indymedia", ''Shaping the Network Society'', ] 2003. Courtesy link to (pre-publication version) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304030415/http://www3.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/c3n/CI/DMorris.htm|date=4 March 2009}}</ref> The movement is also commonly referred to as the ] movement, anti-globalist movement, ] globalization movement,<ref name=Juris>{{cite book | last = Juris | first = Jeffrey S. | title =Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization | publisher = Duke University Press | location = Durham | year = 2008 | page = 2 | isbn = 978-0-8223-4269-4}}</ref> or movement against ] globalization. Opponents of globalization argue that power and respect in terms of international trade between the developed and underdeveloped countries of the world are unequally distributed.<ref>Staggenborg, S. (2011). Social movements (Rev. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.</ref> The diverse subgroups that make up this movement include some of the following: trade unionists, environmentalists, anarchists, land rights and indigenous rights activists, organizations promoting human rights and sustainable development, opponents of privatization, and ] campaigners.<ref name="stwr.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.stwr.org/the-un-people-politics/the-anti-globalization-movement-defined.htm|title=The Anti-Globalization Movement Defined Share The World's Resources|last=Engler|first=M.|date=30 May 2007|access-date=14 March 2013}}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}l</ref>
{{quote|The anti-globalization movement developed in opposition to the perceived negative aspects of globalization. The term 'anti-globalization' is in many ways a misnomer, since the group represents a wide range of interests and issues and many of the people involved in the anti-globalization movement do support closer ties between the various peoples and cultures of the world through, for example, aid, assistance for refugees, and global environmental issues.<ref>Stiglitz, Joseph & Charlton ''Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development''. 2005 p. 54 n. 23</ref>}}

In general, opponents of globalization in developed countries are disproportionately middle-class and college-educated. This contrasts sharply with the situation in developing countries, where the anti-globalization movement has been more successful in enlisting a broader group, including millions of workers and farmers.<ref>Marable, Manning. (2006.) "Globalization and Racialization." </ref>


In '']'', ] analyzed<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-treachery-of-the-lites-elite-sense-of-irresponsibility-1610879.html |title=The treachery of the lites Elite sense of irresponsibility |newspaper=The Independent |date=10 March 1995 |access-date=19 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827124832/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-treachery-of-the-lites-elite-sense-of-irresponsibility-1610879.html |archive-date=27 August 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> the widening gap between the top and bottom of the social composition in the United States. For him, our epoch is determined by a social phenomenon: the revolt of the elites, in reference to '']'' (1929) by the Spanish philosopher ]. According to Lasch, the new elites, i.e. those who are in the top 20% in terms of income, through globalization which allows total mobility of capital, no longer live in the same world as their fellow-citizens. In this, they oppose the old bourgeoisie of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which was constrained by its spatial stability to a minimum of rooting and civic obligations. Globalization, according to the sociologist, has turned elites into tourists in their own countries. The denationalization of business enterprise tends to produce a class who see themselves as "world citizens, but without accepting ... any of the obligations that citizenship in a polity normally implies". Their ties to an international culture of work, leisure, information – make many of them deeply indifferent to the prospect of national decline. Instead of financing public services and the public treasury, new elites are investing their money in improving their voluntary ghettos: private schools in their residential neighborhoods, private police, garbage collection systems. They have "withdrawn from common life". Composed of those who control the international flows of capital and information, who preside over philanthropic foundations and institutions of higher education, manage the instruments of cultural production and thus fix the terms of public debate. So, the political debate is limited mainly to the dominant classes and political ideologies lose all contact with the concerns of the ordinary citizen. The result of this is that no one has a likely solution to these problems and that there are furious ideological battles on related issues. However, they remain protected from the problems affecting the working classes: the decline of industrial activity, the resulting loss of employment, the decline of the middle class, increasing the number of the poor, the rising crime rate, growing drug trafficking, the urban crisis.
These supporters of the movement are aware of the unequal power and respect in terms of international trade between the developed and underdeveloped countries of the world.<ref>Staggenborg, S. (2011). Social movements (Rev. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.</ref> The activists that support the AGM, as mentioned previously before, can range in terms of the specific issue(s) that they oppose. Again, there are a few different dimensions of globalization: economic, political, cultural, ecological and ideological. The diverse subgroups that make up this movement include some of the following: trade unionists, environmentalists, anarchists, land rights and indigenous rights activists, organizations promoting human rights and sustainable development, opponents of privatization, and anti-sweatshop campaigners.<ref name="stwr.org"/>


D.A. Snow et al. contend that the ] is an example of a ], which uses tactics that are unique and use different resources than previously used before in other social movements.<ref>Snow, D.A., Soule, S.A., & Kriesi, H. (2004). The Blackwell companion to social movements. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.</ref>
=====Movement tactics=====
D.A. Snow et al. contend that the ] is an example of a ], which uses tactics that are unique and use different resources than previously used before in other social movements.<ref>Snow, D. A., Soule, S. A., & Kriesi, H. (2004). The Blackwell companion to social movements. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub..</ref> Actors of the movement participate in things such as disruptive tactics. These include flash mobs for example, which work extremely well in catching the attention of others and spreading awareness about the issue of globalization. There is also the spreading of information about the social movement through social media and word of mouth about NGOs, organizations and movement groups working to help alleviate the effects of globalization. Websites such as Twitter and Facebook have become a useful outlet for people to become aware of what is going on around the globe, any protests or tactics taking place and the progress of non-governmental organizations aiding in these impoverished countries.


One of the most infamous tactics of the movement is the ] in 1999, where there were protests against the World Trade Organization's Third Ministerial Meeting.<ref name="stwr.org"/> It can be described as being a massive group of passionate, grass roots people within the anti-globalization movement protesting against the WTO’s corporate rule. All over the world, the movement has held protests outside meetings of institutions such as the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, and the Group of Eight (G8).<ref name="stwr.org"/> Within the Seattle demonstrations the protesters that participated used both creative and violent tactics to gain the attention towards the issue of globalization. It is still one of the most significant and memorable social movement protests in the past 20 years. One of the most infamous tactics of the movement is the ] in 1999, where there were protests against the World Trade Organization's Third Ministerial Meeting. All over the world, the movement has held protests outside meetings of institutions such as the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, and the Group of Eight (G8).<ref name="stwr.org"/> Within the Seattle demonstrations the protesters that participated used both creative and violent tactics to gain the attention towards the issue of globalization.


====Opposition to capital market integration==== ===Opposition to capital market integration===
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Capital markets have to do with raising and investing moneys in various human enterprises. Increasing integration of these ]s between countries leads to the emergence of a global capital marketplace or a single world market. In the long run, increased movement of capital between countries tends to favor owners of capital more than any other group; in the short run, owners and workers in specific sectors in capital-exporting countries bear much of the burden of adjusting to increased movement of capital.<ref>Frieden, Jeffry A. (1991). "Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance." ''International Organization'', 45(4): 425-451. </ref> It is not surprising that these conditions lead to political divisions about whether or not to encourage or increase international capital market integration. Capital markets have to do with raising and investing money in various human enterprises. Increasing integration of these ]s between countries leads to the emergence of a global capital marketplace or a single world market. In the long run, increased movement of capital between countries tends to favor owners of capital more than any other group; in the short run, owners and workers in specific sectors in capital-exporting countries bear much of the burden of adjusting to increased movement of capital.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance|last=Frieden|first=Jeffry A.|journal=]|issn=1531-5088|volume=45|issue=4|year=1991|pages=425–51|doi=10.1017/s0020818300033178|jstor=2706944|s2cid=154738660 }}</ref>


Those opposed to capital market integration on the basis of ] issues are especially disturbed by the various abuses which they think are perpetuated by global and international institutions that, they say, promote ] without regard to ethical standards. This can also be referred to as “corporate capitalism”, as previous mentioned, which are money driven organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, along with many of the popular and competitive multinational corporations, like Nike and other institutions. Common targets include the ] (WB), ] (IMF), the ] (OECD) and the ] (WTO) and ] treaties like the ] (NAFTA), ] (FTAA), the ] (MAI) and the ] (GATS). In light of the economic gap between rich and poor countries, movement adherents claim "free trade" without measures in place to protect the under-capitalized will contribute only to the strengthening the power of industrialized nations (often termed the "North" in opposition to the developing world's "South"). Some of the powerful Northern corporations have implemented policies like privatizing public industry and reducing tariffs. By doing this it has created a growth in sweatshops in the developing world, where wages are minimal and unfair, and conditions are unsafe to the workers’ health and psychological state. The global North can benefit from this by getting goods for a cheaper monetary amount. However, this is at the expense of these impoverished people and the community or country as a whole. Now, fair trade has been introduced in order to attempt to rebuild the economies of third world countries by paying employees, who work to produce goods to be exported, a fair price for their efforts.<ref>Lemay, J. (2005). Anti-globalization movements and the collective identity of organizations: The tribulations of a fair trade association. Anthropologie Et Societes, 29(3), 39-58. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/60041247?accountid=14701</ref> Those opposed to capital market integration on the basis of ] issues are especially disturbed{{According to whom|date=March 2020}} by the various abuses which they think are perpetuated by global and international institutions that, they say, promote ] without regard to ethical standards. Common targets include the ] (WB), ] (IMF), the ] (OECD) and the ] (WTO) and ] treaties like the ] (NAFTA), ] (FTAA), the ] (MAI) and the ] (GATS). In light of the economic gap between rich and poor countries, movement adherents claim free trade without measures in place to protect the under-capitalized will contribute only to the strengthening the power of industrialized nations (often termed the "North" in opposition to the developing world's "South").<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heritage.org/trade/commentary/how-tariffs-and-regressive-trade-policies-hurt-the-poor|title=How Tariffs and Regressive Trade Policies Hurt the Poor|last=Kolas|first=Logan|website=The Heritage Foundation|language=en|access-date=30 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330093705/https://www.heritage.org/trade/commentary/how-tariffs-and-regressive-trade-policies-hurt-the-poor|archive-date=30 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2019}}


====Global justice and inequality==== ===Anti-corporatism and anti-consumerism===
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] ideology, which privileges the rights of corporations (]) over those of ]s, is an underlying factor in the recent rapid expansion of global commerce.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://carnegieendowment.org/2001/09/01/corporatism-goes-global | title=Corporatism Goes Global | author=Ottaway, Marina | journal=Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations | volume=7 | issue=3 | date=September 2001 | doi=10.1163/19426720-00703006 | access-date=28 August 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903042838/http://carnegieendowment.org/2001/09/01/corporatism-goes-global | archive-date=3 September 2014 }}</ref> In recent years, there have been an increasing number of books (]'s 2000 '']'', for example) and films (''e.g. ]'' & '']'') popularizing an ] ] to the public.
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A related contemporary ideology, ], which encourages the personal acquisition of goods and services, also drives globalization.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Lived effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society. | author=Storper Michael | journal=Public Culture | year=2000 | volume=12 | issue=2 | pages=375–409 | doi=10.1215/08992363-12-2-375| citeseerx=10.1.1.571.5793 | s2cid=53599498 }}</ref> Anti-consumerism is a social movement against equating personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions. Concern over the treatment of consumers by large corporations has spawned substantial activism, and the incorporation of ] into school ]. Social activists hold materialism is connected to ] and ], ], greed, ], ], ], and general social ] and discontent. One variation on this topic is activism by ''postconsumers'', with the strategic emphasis on moving ''beyond'' addictive consumerism.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Collective dissonance and the transition to post-consumerism | author=Cohen, Maurie J. | journal=Futures |date=July 2013 | volume=52 | pages=42–51 | doi=10.1016/j.futures.2013.07.001}}</ref>
The global justice movement is the loose collection of individuals and groups—often referred to as a "]"—who advocate ] rules and perceive current institutions of global economic integration as problems.<ref>Tom Mertes, "A Movement of Movements", New York: Verso, 2004</ref> The movement is often labeled an anti-globalization movement by the mainstream media. Those involved, however, frequently deny that they are ], insisting that they support the globalization of communication and people and oppose only the global expansion of corporate power.<ref>della Porta, D. 2005. "The Social Bases of the Global Justice Movement: Some Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Evidence from the First European Social Forum." Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper No. 21.Geneva: UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development).</ref> The movement is based in the idea of ], desiring the creation of a society or institution based on the principles of ] and ], the values of human rights, and the dignity of every human being.<ref name="autogenerated2006">Education and Social Justice By J. Zajda, S. Majhanovich, V. Rust, 2006, ISBN 1-4020-4721-5</ref><ref name="autogenerated2005">Nursing ethics: across the curriculum and into practice By Janie B. Butts, Karen Rich, Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2005, ISBN 978-0-7637-4735-0</ref><ref>http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-act-135-of-2004.pdf</ref> ] within and between nations, including a growing ], is a focal point of the movement. Many nongovernmental organizations have now arisen to fight these inequalities that many in Latin America, Africa and Asia face. A few very popular and well known ] (NGOs) include: ], ], ] and ]. They often create partnerships where they work towards improving the lives of those who live in third world countries by building schools, fixing infrastructure, cleaning water supplies, purchasing equipment and supplies for hospitals, and other aid efforts.


===Global justice and inequality===
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The global justice movement is the loose collection of individuals and groups—often referred to as a "]"—who advocate ] rules and perceive current institutions of global economic integration as problems.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?|publisher=Verso|year=2004|isbn=1-85984-504-5|editor-last=Mertes|editor-first=Tom|location=London|oclc=53243132|editor-last2=Bello|editor-first2=Walden F.|editor-last3=Bové|editor-first3=José|editor-link3=José Bové|editor-last4=Cassen|editor-first4=Bernard|editor-last5=Graeber|editor-first5=David|editor-last6=Hardt|editor-first6=Michael|editor-last7=Klein|editor-first7=Naomi|editor-last8=Marcos|editor-first8=Subcomandante|editor-last9=Muchhala|editor-first9=Bumika|display-editors=4}}</ref> The movement is often labeled an anti-globalization movement by the mainstream media. Those involved, however, frequently deny that they are ], insisting that they support the globalization of communication and people and oppose only the global expansion of corporate power.<ref>della Porta, D. 2005. "The Social Bases of the Global Justice Movement: Some Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Evidence from the First European Social Forum." Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper No. 21.Geneva: UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development).</ref> The movement is based in the idea of ], desiring the creation of a society or institution based on the principles of ] and ], the values of human rights, and the dignity of every human being.<ref name="autogenerated2006">Education and Social Justice By J. Zajda, S. Majhanovich, V. Rust, 2006, {{ISBN|1-4020-4721-5}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated2005">Nursing ethics: across the curriculum and into practice By Janie B. Butts, Karen Rich, Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-7637-4735-0}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-act-135-of-2004.pdf|title=Legal Birth Definition Act – Act 135 of 2004|access-date=1 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203011611/http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-act-135-of-2004.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> ] within and between nations, including a growing ], is a focal point of the movement. Many nongovernmental organizations have now arisen to fight these inequalities that many in Latin America, Africa and Asia face. A few very popular and well known ] (NGOs) include: ], ], ] and ]. They often create partnerships where they work towards improving the lives of those who live in developing countries by building schools, fixing infrastructure, cleaning water supplies, purchasing equipment and supplies for hospitals, and other aid efforts.
=====Inequality=====
{{Main|Economic inequality|International inequality}}


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Increasing ] with high ], corporate ], tax havens and other methods of ], and ] have all caused increases in ] and ]: the increasingly unequal distribution of economic ] (wealth) and ] within or between global populations, ], and individuals. Economic inequality varies between societies, historical periods, economic structures or systems (for example, ] or ]), ongoing or past wars, between ], and between differences in individuals' abilities to create ].<ref>Wojciech Kopczuk, Emmanuel Saez, and Jae Song find that “most of the increase in the variance of (log) annual earnings is due to increases in the variance of (log) permanent earnings with modest increases in the variance of transitory (log) earnings.” Thus, in fact, the increase in earnings inequality is in lifetime income. Furthermore, they find that it remains difficult for someone to move up the earnings distribution (though they do find upward mobility for women in their lifetime). See their “Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 125, no. 1 (2010): 91– 128.</ref> There are various numerical ] for measuring economic inequality. A prominent one is the ], but there are also ].


====Social inequality====
Economic inequality affects ], ], and ]. Although earlier thought considered economic inequality as necessary and beneficial,<ref> By Thomas A. Garrett| Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis| Spring 2010</ref> it has more recently come to be seen as a growing social problem.<ref name="Spirit Level">{{cite book |title=] |last=Wilkinson |first=Richard |authorlink= |coauthors=Pickett, Kate |year=2009 |publisher=Allen Lane |location= |isbn=978-1-84614-039-6 |page=352}}</ref> Early studies suggesting that greater equality inhibits ] have been shown to be flawed because they did not account for the many years it can take inequality changes to manifest in growth changes.<ref name=BanerjeeDuflo>{{Cite journal |last= Banerjee |first= Abhijit V. |first2= Esther |last2= Duflo |year= 2003 |title= Inequality And Growth: What Can The Data Say? |journal= Journal of Economic Growth |volume= 8 |issue= 3 |pages= 267–99 |doi= 10.1023/A:1026205114860 |url= http://economics.mit.edu/files/753 |accessdate= September 25, 2012}}</ref> In fact, one of the most robust and important determinants of sustained economic growth is the level of income inequality.<ref name=BergOstryEE/>
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The economies of the world have ] unevenly, historically, such that entire geographical regions were left mired in poverty and disease while others began to reduce poverty and disease on a wholesale basis. From around 1980 through at least 2011, the GDP gap, while still wide, appeared to be closing and, in some more rapidly ], ] began to rise.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24835822 | title=How much do you know about the world? | publisher=BBC | date=2013 | access-date=9 July 2014 | author=Rosling, Hans | work=BBC News | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714222626/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24835822 | archive-date=14 July 2014 | url-status=live }}</ref> If we look at the Gini coefficient for world income, since the late 1980s, the gap between some regions has markedly narrowed—between Asia and the advanced economies of the West, for example—but huge gaps remain globally. Overall equality across humanity, considered as individuals, has improved very little. Within the decade between 2003 and 2013, income inequality grew even in traditionally egalitarian countries like Germany, Sweden and Denmark. With a few exceptions—France, Japan, Spain—the top 10 percent of earners in most advanced economies raced ahead, while the bottom 10 percent fell further behind.<ref name="Stiglitz">{{cite news | url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/inequality-is-a-choice/?_php=true&_type=blogs | title=Inequality is a Choice | date=13 October 2013 | access-date=9 July 2014 | author=Stiglits Joseph E. | location=New York Times | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125162537/https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/inequality-is-a-choice/?_php=true&_type=blogs | archive-date=25 November 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> By 2013, 85 multibillionaires had amassed wealth equivalent to all the wealth owned by the poorest half (3.5 billion) of the world's total population of 7 billion.<ref name="WEF2014">{{cite web | url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_GlobalAgendaOutlook_2014.pdf | title=Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014 | publisher=World Economic Forum | access-date=9 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210134450/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC_GlobalAgendaOutlook_2014.pdf | archive-date=10 February 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref>
] is inequality between countries. ] between rich and poor countries are very large. According to the ] Human Development Report for 2004, the GDP per capita in countries with high, medium and low human development (a classification based on the ]) was 24,806, 4,269 and 1,184 PPP$, respectively (PPP$ = ] measured in ]s).<ref></ref>


Critics of globalization argue that globalization results in weak ]: the surplus in cheap labor coupled with an ever-growing number of companies in transition weakened labor unions in high-cost areas. Unions become less effective and workers their enthusiasm for unions when membership begins to decline.<ref name="Hurst E. Charles P.41"/> They also cite an increase in the exploitation of ]: countries with weak protections for children are vulnerable to infestation by rogue companies and criminal gangs who exploit them. Examples include ]ing, salvage, and farm work as well as trafficking, bondage, forced labor, prostitution and pornography.<ref name="Edmonds_Pavcni">{{cite journal | last1 = Pavcnik | first1 = Nina |date=September 2005 | title = Child Labor in the Global Economy | journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives | volume = 19 | issue = 1 | pages = 199–220 | doi = 10.1257/0895330053147895 | last2 = Pavcnik | first2 = Nina | citeseerx = 10.1.1.488.791 }}</ref>
=====Gender inequality in the global workforce=====
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Women often participate in the workforce as ]. Evidence suggests that while globalization has expanded women’s access to employment, the long-term goal of transforming gender inequalities remains unmet and appears unattainable without regulation of capital and a reorientation and expansion of the state’s role in funding public goods and providing a social safety net.<ref>Seguino, Stephanie and Caren Gron (2006). Gender equality and globalization: Macroeconomic policy for developing countries. Journal of International Development (18): 1081–1104. DOI: 10.1002/jid.1295 http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/Seguino_GrownGenderEquityandGlobalizationJID.pdf</ref>


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====Anti-consumerism====
Women often participate in the workforce in ], including ]. Evidence suggests that while globalization has expanded women's access to employment, the long-term goal{{Whose|date=April 2024}} of transforming ] remains unmet and appears unattainable without regulation of capital and a reorientation and expansion of the state's role in funding public goods and providing a social safety net.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Seguino|first1=Stephanie|last2=Grown|first2=Caren|date=November 2006|title=Gender equity and globalization: macroeconomic policy for developing countries|journal=Journal of International Development|volume=18|issue=8|pages=1081–104|doi=10.1002/jid.1295|author-link1=Stephanie Seguino|citeseerx=10.1.1.589.4614}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605144218/http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/Seguino_GrownGenderEquityandGlobalizationJID.pdf |date=5 June 2013 }}</ref> Furthermore, the intersectionality of gender, race, class, can be overlooked by scholars and commentators when assessing the impact of globalization.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Gender, development, and globalization: economics as if all people mattered|last=Lourdes|first=Benería|others=Berik, Günseli, Floro, Maria|isbn=978-0-415-53748-3|edition= Second|location=New York|oclc=903247621|date=2014}}</ref>
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In 2016, a study published by the IMF posited that ], the ideological backbone of contemporary globalized capitalism, has been "oversold", with the benefits of neoliberal policies being "fairly difficult to establish when looking at a broad group of countries" and the costs, most significantly higher income inequality within nations, "hurt the level and sustainability of growth."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Foroohar |first=Rana |date=3 June 2016 |title=Globalization's True Believers Are Having Second Thoughts |url=https://time.com/4356816/neoliberalism-imf-globalization/ |magazine=TIME |access-date=12 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617175511/http://time.com/4356816/neoliberalism-imf-globalization/ |archive-date=17 June 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Anti-consumerism is the socio-political movement against equating personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions. The term "consumerism" was first used in 1915 to refer to "advocacy of the rights and interests of consumers" (''Oxford English Dictionary''), but here the term "]" refers to the sense first used in 1960, "emphasis on or preoccupation with the acquisition of consumer goods" (''Oxford English Dictionary'').
Concern over the treatment of consumers has spawned substantial activism, and the incorporation of ] into school ].


===Anti-global governance===
Anti-consumerist activism draws parallels with environmental activism, anti-globalization, and animal-rights activism in its condemnation of modern corporations, or organizations that pursue a solely economic interest. One variation on this topic is activism by ''postconsumers'', with the strategic emphasis on moving ''beyond'' addictive consumerism.

In recent years, there have been an increasing number of books (]'s 2000 '']'', for example) and films (''e.g. ]'' & '']'') popularizing an ] ] to the public.

Opposition to ] comes primarily from two sources: ] and ]. Some religions assert materialism interferes with connection between the individual and the ] or that it is inherently an ] lifestyle. Social activists believe materialism is connected to ] and ], ], greed, ], ], environmental degradation, and general social ] and discontent.

====Anti-global governance====
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Beginning in the 1930s, opposition arose to the idea of a world government, as advocated by organizations such as the World Federalist Movement (WFM).<ref></ref> Those who oppose global governance typically do so on objections that the idea is in-feasible, inevitably oppressive, or simply unnecessary.<ref>Kennedy, Paul. (2006.) ''The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations.'' New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0375501654</ref> In general, these opponents are wary of the concentration of power or wealth that such governance might represent. Religious reasons are also cited, in which global governance is seen as the ] ] or a representation thereof (see ]). Such reasoning dates back to the founding of the ] and, later, the ]. Beginning in the 1930s, opposition arose to the idea of a world government, as advocated by organizations such as the ]. Those who oppose global governance typically do so on objections that the idea is unfeasible, inevitably oppressive, or simply unnecessary.<ref>Kennedy, Paul. (2006.) ''The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations.'' New York: Harper Collins. {{ISBN|978-0-375-50165-4}}</ref> In general, these opponents are wary of the concentration of power or wealth that such governance might represent. Such reasoning dates back to the founding of the ] and, later, the ].


====Environmentalist opposition==== ===Environmentalist opposition===
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] is a broad philosophy, ideology<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ideology.html |title=Ideology and Sustainability |publisher=Formal.stanford.edu |accessdate=13 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Ronald Bailey from the February 2002 issue |url=http://reason.com/archives/2002/02/01/debunking-green-myths |title=Debunking Green Myths |publisher=Reason.com |accessdate=13 June 2012}}</ref><ref>Donald Gibson. Environmentalism: Ideology and Power. Nova Science Pub Inc. 2003</ref> and social movement regarding concerns for environmental ] and improvement of the health of the ], particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements. Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment in an attempt to balance relations between humanity and their broader ]. The exact nature of this balance is controversial and there are many different ways for environmental concerns to be expressed in practice. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the color ],<ref name="Light, Dark and Bright Green Environmentalism">{{cite web|url=http://www.greendaily.com/2009/04/23/light-dark-and-bright-green-environmentalism/ |title=Light, Dark and Bright Green Environmentalism |accessdate=2 November 2009 |author=Cat Lincoln |date=Spring 2009 |publisher=Green Daily}}</ref> but this association has been appropriated by the marketing industries and is a key tactic in the art of ]. Environmentalist concerns with globalization include issues such as ], ], global ] and ], inequity in ] and ], transnational ] and pollution of the ], ], world ] ], ], ] and ]. ] is a broad philosophy, ideology<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ideology.html |title=Ideology and Sustainability |publisher=Formal.stanford.edu |access-date=13 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204042425/http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ideology.html |archive-date=4 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Ronald Bailey from the February 2002 issue |url=http://reason.com/archives/2002/02/01/debunking-green-myths |title=Debunking Green Myths |date=February 2002 |publisher=Reason.com |access-date=13 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710221038/http://reason.com/archives/2002/02/01/debunking-green-myths |archive-date=10 July 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Donald Gibson. Environmentalism: Ideology and Power. Nova Science Pub Inc. 2003</ref> and social movement regarding concerns for environmental ] and improvement of the health of the ]. Environmentalist concerns with globalization include issues such as ], global ] and ], inequity in ] and ], transnational ] and pollution of the ], ], world ] ], ], ] and ].


Another concern is labelled "]",<ref>Bigs, Shannon. (2011). </ref> which claims that the resources and wealth of society are typically appropriated by a small minority group of a privileged race or class, under much protection. Thus, the excluded majority never gets a chance to access to resources necessary for well-being and survival. In the pre-Rio period, it was the North that contributed most to the destruction of the environment. Globalization is restructuring control over resources in such a way that the natural resources of the poor are systematically taken over by the rich and the pollution promulgated by the rich is systematically dumped on the poor.<ref>Low, Nicholas. (2002). ''Global Ethics and Environment''. Routledge Science. ISBN 978-0415197359.</ref> For example, 90 percent of historic ] have been by the industrialized countries. The developed countries produce 90 percent of the hazardous wastes produced around the world every year. Global free trade has globalized this environmental destruction in an asymmetric pattern. Some argue the economy is controlled by Northern corporations and they are increasingly exploiting resources of less wealthy countries for their global activities while it is the South that is disproportionately bearing the environmental burden of the globalized economy. Globalization is thus leading to a type of environmental apartheid.<ref>Lechner, Frank J., and John Boli. 2012. ''The Globalization Reader'', 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0470655634.</ref> One critique of globalization is that natural resources of the poor have been systematically taken over by the rich and the pollution promulgated by the rich is systematically dumped on the poor.<ref>Low, Nicholas. (2002). ''Global Ethics and Environment''. Routledge Science. {{ISBN|978-0-415-19735-9}}.</ref> Some argue that Northern corporations are increasingly exploiting resources of less wealthy countries for their global activities while it is the South that is disproportionately bearing the environmental burden of the globalized economy. Globalization is thus leading to a type of" environmental ]".<ref>Lechner, Frank J., and John Boli. 2012. ''The Globalization Reader'', 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell. {{ISBN|978-0-470-65563-4}}.</ref>


], the director and founder of Local Futures/], criticizes globalization in many ways. In her book '']'', Norberg-Hodge claims that "centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from the pressures of development and globalization." She also criticizes the standardization and rationalization of globalization, as it does not always yield the expected growth outcomes. Although globalization takes similar steps in most countries, scholars such as Hodge claim that it might not be effective to certain countries and that globalization has actually moved some countries backward instead of developing them.<ref>{{cite book|last=Norberg-Hodge|first=Helena|title=Ancient futures: learning from Ladakh|year=1992|publisher=Sierra Club Books|location=San Francisco|isbn=978-0-87156-643-0|edition=Sierra Club Books paperback|url=https://archive.org/details/ancientfuturesl000norb}}</ref>
A related area of concern is the ], which posits that, when large industrialized nations seek to set up factories or offices abroad, they will often look for the cheapest option in terms of resources and labor that offers the land and material access they require (see ]).<ref name="Unmaskingthe">{{cite journal|last=Levinson|first=Arik|coauthors=M. Scott Taylor|title=Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect|journal=]|year=2008|volume=49|issue=1|pages=223–54|doi=10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00478.x}}</ref> This often comes at the cost of environmentally sound practices. Developing countries with cheap resources and labor tend to have less stringent ], and conversely, nations with stricter environmental regulations become more expensive for companies as a result of the costs associated with meeting these standards. Thus, companies that choose to physically invest in foreign countries tend to (re)locate to the countries with the lowest ]s or weakest enforcement.


A related area of concern is the ], which posits that, when large industrialized nations seek to set up factories or offices abroad, they will often look for the cheapest option in terms of resources and labor that offers the land and material access they require (see ]).<ref name="Unmaskingthe">{{cite journal|last=Levinson|first=Arik|author2=M. Scott Taylor|title=Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect|journal=]|year=2008|volume=49|issue=1|pages=223–54|doi=10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00478.x|s2cid=40982519|url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w10629.pdf|access-date=29 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180602151508/http://www.nber.org/papers/w10629.pdf|archive-date=2 June 2018|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref> This often comes at the cost of environmentally sound practices. Developing countries with cheap resources and labor tend to have less stringent ], and conversely, nations with stricter environmental regulations become more expensive for companies as a result of the costs associated with meeting these standards. Thus, companies that choose to physically invest in foreign countries tend to (re)locate to the countries with the lowest ]s or weakest enforcement.
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The ], which would form one of the world's largest free trade areas,<ref>{{cite web |title=Farmers, environmentalists slam 'sell-out' EU-Mercosur trade deal |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20190629-eu-south-america-agriculture-trade-mercosur-farmers-environmentalists |publisher=France24 |date=29 June 2019 |access-date=25 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825090453/https://www.france24.com/en/20190629-eu-south-america-agriculture-trade-mercosur-farmers-environmentalists |archive-date=25 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> has been denounced by ] and ] campaigners.<ref>{{cite news |title=EU urged to halt trade talks with S. America over Brazil abuses |url=https://www.france24.com/en/20190618-eu-urged-halt-trade-talks-with-america-over-brazil-abuses |work=France 24 |date=18 June 2019 |access-date=25 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825102307/https://www.france24.com/en/20190618-eu-urged-halt-trade-talks-with-america-over-brazil-abuses |archive-date=25 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The fear is that the deal could lead to more ] as it expands market access to Brazilian beef.<ref>{{cite web |title=We must not barter the Amazon rainforest for burgers and steaks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2019/jul/02/barter-amazon-rainforest-burgers-steaks-brazil |work=The Guardian |date=2 July 2019 |access-date=25 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824153649/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2019/jul/02/barter-amazon-rainforest-burgers-steaks-brazil |archive-date=24 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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* Ampuja, Marko. ''Theorizing Globalization: A Critique of the Mediatization of Social Theory'' (Brill, 2012)
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* Conner, Tom, and Ikuko Torimoto, eds. ''Globalization Redux: New Name, Same Game'' (University Press of America, 2004).
* {{cite book | last = ] | first = | title = Economic policy in the age of globalisation| publisher=] | year = 2005 |location =| url = http://books.google.com/?id=vbfoISnmoTMC | id = | isbn = 0-521-54038-0}}
* Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. "Globalization." in ''Handbook of Political Anthropology'' (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018).
* {{cite book | last = Barbara | first = Christopher | title = International legal personality: Panacea or pandemonium? Theorizing about the individual and the state in the era of globalization| publisher=] | year = 2008 |location =Saarbrücken| url = http://www.amazon.com/International-legal-personality-pandemonium-globalization/dp/3639115147/ | id = | isbn = 3-639-11514-7}}
* Frey, James W. "The Global Moment: The Emergence of Globality, 1866–1867, and the Origins of Nineteenth-Century Globalization." ''The Historian'' 81.1 (2019): 9. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203212404/https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-582097534/the-global-moment-the-emergence-of-globality-1866-1867 |date=3 December 2019 }}, focus on trade and Suez Canal
* {{cite book | last = von Braun | first = Joachim | coauthors = Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla | title = Globalization of Food and Agriculture and the Poor| publisher=Oxford University Press | year = 2007 |location = Oxford| url = http://www.ifpri.org/PUBS/otherpubs/globalpoor.asp | id = | isbn = 978-0-19-569528-1}}
* Gunder Frank, Andre, and Robert A. Denemark. ''ReOrienting the 19th Century: Global Economy in the Continuing Asian Age'' (Paradigm Publishers, 2013).
* Carpenter, John. "Puritan Missions as Globalization," '']''. 31:2, 1999 pp.&nbsp;103–123.
* {{cite book |title=The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began |year=2020 |first=Valerie |last=Hansen |publisher=Scribner |isbn=978-1501194108 }}
* {{Cite book | last= Chanda | first = Nayan | authorlink = Nayan Chanda | title=Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Warriors and Adventurers Shaped Globalization | publisher=Yale University Press, New Haven | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-300-11201-6}}
* Hopkins, A.G., ed. ''Globalization in World History'' (Norton, 2003).
* {{cite book | title=Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order | publisher=Seven Stories Press | author=Chomsky, Noam and Robert W. McChesney | year=2011 | isbn=978-1888363821}}
* Lechner, Frank J., and John Boli, eds. ''The Globalization Reader'' (4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
* {{cite book | last = Fernando | first = Salvetti (ed.) | title = "Glocal" Working. Living and Working across the World with Cultural Intelligence | publisher=Franco Angeli| year = 2010 |location =Milan| url = http://www.cultural-intelligence.info | id = | isbn = 978-88-568-2733-0}}
* Leibler, Anat. "The Emergence of a Global Economic Order: From Scientific Internationalism to Infrastructural Globalism." in ''Science, Numbers and Politics'' (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019) pp.&nbsp;121–145 {{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}.
* {{cite book | last = Glyn | first = Andrew | authorlink = Andrew Glyn | title = Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare | year = 2006 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location = Oxford | url= http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/International/?view=usa&ci=9780199226795 | isbn = 0-19-922679-2}}
* Mir, Salam. "Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Globalization, and Arab Culture." ''Arab Studies Quarterly'' 41.1 (2019): 33–58.
* James, Paul (2006) ''Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In''. London: Sage. ISBN 9780761955139 hb ISBN 9780761955146 pb
*] (2015) "Proto-globalization and Proto-glocalizations in the Middle Millennium." In Kedar, Benjamin and Wiesner-Hanks, Merry (Eds.), Cambridge World History. Volume 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conquest, 500–1500 CE. Cambridge University Press, pp.&nbsp;665–684
* Jones, Andrew (2010) ''Globalization. Key Thinkers.'' Cambridge: Polity Press, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0745643221
* Pfister, Ulrich (2012), , , Mainz: , retrieved: 25 March 2021 ().
* {{cite book | last = Kitching | first = Gavin | authorlink = Gavin Kitching | title = Seeking Social Justice through Globalization. Escaping a Nationalist Perspective | publisher=Penn State Press | year= 2001 | url = http://www.gavinkitching.com/africa_3.htm | isbn = 0-271-02162-4 }}
* Pieterse, Jan Nederveen. ''Globalization and culture: Global mélange'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
* {{cite book | title=] | publisher=Picador | author=Klein, Naomi | authorlink = Naomi Klein| year=2008 | isbn=978-0312427993}}
* Rosenberg, Justin. "Globalization Theory: A Post Mortem," ''International Politics'' 42:1 (2005), 2–74.
* {{cite book | last = Kohler | first = Gernot | coauthors = Emilio José Chaves (eds.) | title = Globalization: Critical Perspectives | year = 2003 | publisher=Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers |isbn = 1-59033-346-2|url = http://www.novapublishers.com/}} With contributions by ], ], ], ]
* Steger, Manfred B. ''Globalization: A Very Short Introduction'' (4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2017)
* {{cite book | last = ] | coauthors = ] | title = The case against the global economy: and for a turn toward the local | publisher=] | year = 1996 | location = San Francisco | url = | id = | isbn = 0-87156-865-9 }}
* Van Der Bly, Martha C.E. "Globalization: A Triumph of Ambiguity," ''Current Sociology'' 53:6 (November 2005), 875–893
* {{cite book | last = Moore | first = Karl | authorlink = Karl Moore (academic) | coauthors = David Charles Lewis | title = Origins of Globalization | publisher=Routledge | year = 2009 | location = New York | url = http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415805988/ |isbn=978-0-415-80598-8}}
* Wallerstein, Immanuel. "Globalization or the Age of Transition? A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World System," ''International Sociology'' 15:2 (June 2000), 251–267.
* {{cite book | last = Murray | first = Warwick E. | title = Geographies of Globalization | publisher=Routledge | year = 2006 | location = New York | isbn = 0-415-31799-1 }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last= Norberg |first= Johan |authorlink= Johan Norberg |editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |title= Globalization |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC |accessdate= |edition= |year=2008 |publisher= ]; ] |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |id= |isbn= 978-1-4129-6580-4 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |pages=207–8 |quote= |ref= }}
* {{cite book | last = Neumann | first = Iver B. | coauthors = Ole Jacob Sending | title = Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality | publisher=University of Michigan Press| year = 2010 | location = Ann Arbor | url = http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=371804| isbn = 978-0-472-07093-0}}
* {{cite book | last = Osterhammel | first = Jürgen | authorlink = Jürgen Osterhammel | coauthors = Niels P. Petersson | title = Globalization: A Short History | publisher=Princeton University Press | year = 2005 | location = Princeton, New Jersey | url = http://www.amazon.com/Globalization-Short-History-Jurgen-Osterhammel/dp/0691121656/ | id = | isbn = 0-691-12165-6 }}
* Panitch, Leo and Sam Gindin (2012). ''The Making of Global Capitalism: the Political Economy of American Empire''. London: Verso. ISBN 978-1-84467-742-9
* {{cite book | last = Pfister | first = Ulrich | authorlink = | title = Globalization | year = 2012 | publisher=], | location = Mainz | url= http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0159-2012060507 | isbn = }}
* {{cite book |author=Reinsdorf, Marshall and Matthew J. Slaughter |title=International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-226-70959-8 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago}}
* {{cite journal | url=http://www.scientificpapers.org/economics/globalization-measurement-notes-on-common-globalization-indexes/ | title=Globalization Measurement: Notes on Common Globalization Indexes | author=Samimi, Parisa, Guan Choo Lim and Abdul Aziz Buang | journal=Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology |date=December 2011 | volume=1 | issue=7}}
* {{cite book | last = Sen | first = Amartya | authorlink = Amartya Sen | title = ] | publisher=Oxford University Press | year = 1999 | location = Oxford, New York | url = | id = | isbn = 0375406190 }}
* {{cite book | last = Sirkin | first = Harold L | coauthors = James W. Hemerling and Arindam K. Bhattacharya | title = Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything| publisher=Business Plus | year = 2008 |location = New York | page = 292 | url = http://www.bcg.com/globality| id = | isbn = 0-446-17829-2}}
* {{cite book | last = Smith | first = Charles | authorlink = Charles Emrys Smith | title = International Trade and Globalisation, 3rd edition | publisher=Anforme | year = 2007 | location = Stocksfield | url = | id = | isbn = 1-905504-10-1 }}
* {{cite book | last = Steger | first = Manfred | title = Globalism: the new market ideology | publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | year = 2002 | location = Lanham, Maryland | url = | id = | isbn = 0-7425-0072-1 }}
* {{cite book | last = Stiglitz | first = Joseph E. | authorlink = Joseph E. Stiglitz | title = ] | publisher=W.W. Norton | year = 2002 | location = New York | url = | id = | isbn = 0-393-32439-7 }}
* {{cite book | last = Stiglitz | first = Joseph E. | authorlink = Joseph E. Stiglitz | title = ] | publisher=W.W. Norton | year = 2006 | location = New York | url = | id = | isbn = 0-393-06122-1 }}
* {{cite book | last = Tausch | first = Arno | title = Multicultural Europe: Effects of the Global Lisbon Process | publisher=Nova Science Publishers | year = 2008 | location = Hauppauge, New York | url = | id = | isbn = 978-1-60456-806-6}}
* {{cite book | last = Osle | first = Rafael Domingo | title = The New Global Law | publisher=Cambridge University Press| year = 2010| location = Cambridge | url = | id = | isbn = 9780521193870 }}
* {{cite book | last = Wolf | first = Martin | authorlink = Martin Wolf | title = Why Globalization Works | publisher=Yale University Press | year = 2004 | location = New Haven | url = | id = | isbn = 978-0-300-10252-9 }}
* Sparks, C. (2007). Globalization, development and the mass media. Los Angeles: SAGE.
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Globalization (North American spelling; also Oxford spelling ) or globalisation (non-Oxford British spelling; see spelling differences) is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, the liberalization of capital movements, the development of transportation, and the advancement of information and communication technologies. The term globalization first appeared in the early 20th century (supplanting an earlier French term mondialisation), developed its current meaning sometime in the second half of the 20th century, and came into popular use in the 1990s to describe the unprecedented international connectivity of the post–Cold War world. The origins of globalization can be traced back to the 18th and 19th centuries, driven by advances in transportation and communication technologies. These developments increased global interactions, fostering the growth of international trade and the exchange of ideas, beliefs, and cultures. While globalization is primarily an economic process of interaction and integration, it is also closely linked to social and cultural dynamics. Additionally, disputes and international diplomacy have played significant roles in the history and evolution of globalization, continuing to shape its modern form.

Economically, globalization involves goods, services, data, technology, and the economic resources of capital. The expansion of global markets liberalizes the economic activities of the exchange of goods and funds. Removal of cross-border trade barriers has made the formation of global markets more feasible. Advances in transportation, like the steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships, and developments in telecommunication infrastructure such as the telegraph, the Internet, mobile phones, and smartphones, have been major factors in globalization and have generated further interdependence of economic and cultural activities around the globe.

Though many scholars place the origins of globalization in modern times, others trace its history to long before the European Age of Discovery and voyages to the New World, and some even to the third millennium BCE. Large-scale globalization began in the 1820s, and in the late 19th century and early 20th century drove a rapid expansion in the connectivity of the world's economies and cultures. The term global city was subsequently popularized by sociologist Saskia Sassen in her work The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991).

In 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people, and the dissemination of knowledge. Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, sociocultural resources, and the natural environment. Academic literature commonly divides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization, and political globalization.

Proponents of globalization point to economic growth and broader societal development as benefits, while opponents claim globalizing processes are detrimental to social well-being due to ethnocentrism, environmental consequences, and other potential drawbacks.

Between 1990 and 2010, globalisation progressed rapidly, driven by the information and communication technology revolution that lowered communication costs, along with trade liberalisation and the shift of manufacturing operations to emerging economies (particularly China).

Etymology and usage

The word globalization was used in the English language as early as the 1930s, but only in the context of education, and the term failed to gain traction. Over the next few decades, the term was occasionally used by other scholars and media, but it was not clearly defined. One of the first usages of the term in the meaning resembling the later, was by French economist François Perroux in his essays from the early 1960s (in his French works he used the term "mondialisation" (literarly worldization in French), also translated as mundialization). Theodore Levitt is often credited with popularizing the term and bringing it into the mainstream business audience in the later in the middle of 1980s.

Though often treated as synonyms, in French, globalization is seen as a stage following mondialisation, a stage that implies the dissolution of national identities and the abolishment of borders inside the world network of economic exchanges.

Since its inception, the concept of globalization has inspired competing definitions and interpretations. Its antecedents date back to the great movements of trade and empire across Asia and the Indian Ocean from the 15th century onward.

In 1848, Karl Marx noticed the increasing level of national inter-dependence brought on by capitalism, and predicted the universal character of the modern world society. He states:

The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of Reactionists, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. . . . In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations.

Sociologists Martin Albrow and Elizabeth King define globalization as "all those processes by which the people of the world are incorporated into a single world society." In The Consequences of Modernity, Anthony Giddens writes: "Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa." In 1992, Roland Robertson, professor of sociology at the University of Aberdeen and an early writer in the field, described globalization as "the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole."

In Global Transformations, David Held and his co-writers state:

Although in its simplistic sense globalization refers to the widening, deepening and speeding up of global interconnection, such a definition begs further elaboration. ... Globalization can be on a continuum with the local, national and regional. At one end of the continuum lie social and economic relations and networks which are organized on a local and/or national basis; at the other end lie social and economic relations and networks which crystallize on the wider scale of regional and global interactions. Globalization can refer to those spatial-temporal processes of change which underpin a transformation in the organization of human affairs by linking together and expanding human activity across regions and continents. Without reference to such expansive spatial connections, there can be no clear or coherent formulation of this term. ... A satisfactory definition of globalization must capture each of these elements: extensity (stretching), intensity, velocity and impact.

Held and his co-writers' definition of globalization in that same book as "transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions—assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact—generating transcontinental or inter-regional flows" was called "probably the most widely-cited definition" in the 2014 DHL Global Connectiveness Index.

Swedish journalist Thomas Larsson, in his book The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization, states that globalization:

...is the process of world shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can interact, to mutual benefit, with somebody on the other side of the world.

Paul James defines globalization with a more direct and historically contextualized emphasis:

Globalization is the extension of social relations across world-space, defining that world-space in terms of the historically variable ways that it has been practiced and socially understood through changing world-time.

Manfred Steger, professor of global studies and research leader in the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University, identifies four main empirical dimensions of globalization: economic, political, cultural, and ecological. A fifth dimension—the ideological—cutting across the other four. The ideological dimension, according to Steger, is filled with a range of norms, claims, beliefs, and narratives about the phenomenon itself.

James and Steger stated that the concept of globalization "emerged from the intersection of four interrelated sets of 'communities of practice' (Wenger, 1998): academics, journalists, publishers/editors, and librarians." They note the term was used "in education to describe the global life of the mind"; in international relations to describe the extension of the European Common Market, and in journalism to describe how the "American Negro and his problem are taking on a global significance". They have also argued that four forms of globalization can be distinguished that complement and cut across the solely empirical dimensions. According to James, the oldest dominant form of globalization is embodied globalization, the movement of people. A second form is agency-extended globalization, the circulation of agents of different institutions, organizations, and polities, including imperial agents. Object-extended globalization, a third form, is the movement of commodities and other objects of exchange. He calls the transmission of ideas, images, knowledge, and information across world-space disembodied globalization, maintaining that it is currently the dominant form of globalization. James holds that this series of distinctions allows for an understanding of how, today, the most embodied forms of globalization such as the movement of refugees and migrants are increasingly restricted, while the most disembodied forms such as the circulation of financial instruments and codes are the most deregulated.

The journalist Thomas L. Friedman popularized the term "flat world", arguing that globalized trade, outsourcing, supply-chaining, and political forces had permanently changed the world, for better and worse. He asserted that the pace of globalization was quickening and that its impact on business organization and practice would continue to grow.

Economist Takis Fotopoulos defined "economic globalization" as the opening and deregulation of commodity, capital, and labor markets that led toward present neoliberal globalization. He used "political globalization" to refer to the emergence of a transnational élite and a phasing out of the nation-state. Meanwhile, he used "cultural globalization" to reference the worldwide homogenization of culture. Other of his usages included "ideological globalization", "technological globalization", and "social globalization".

Lechner and Boli (2012) define globalization as more people across large distances becoming connected in more and different ways.

"Globophobia" is used to refer to the fear of globalization, though it can also mean the fear of balloons.

History

Main article: History of globalization For a chronological guide, see Timeline of international trade.

There are both distal and proximate causes which can be traced in the historical factors affecting globalization. Large-scale globalization began in the 19th century.

Archaic

Main article: Archaic globalization
The 13th century world-system, as described by Janet Abu-Lughod

Archaic globalization conventionally refers to a phase in the history of globalization including globalizing events and developments from the time of the earliest civilizations until roughly the 1600s. This term is used to describe the relationships between communities and states and how they were created by the geographical spread of ideas and social norms at both local and regional levels.

In this schema, three main prerequisites are posited for globalization to occur. The first is the idea of Eastern Origins, which shows how Western states have adapted and implemented learned principles from the East. Without the spread of traditional ideas from the East, Western globalization would not have emerged the way it did. The interactions of states were not on a global scale and most often were confined to Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and certain parts of Europe. With early globalization, it was difficult for states to interact with others that were not close. Eventually, technological advances allowed states to learn of others' existence and thus another phase of globalization can occur. The third has to do with inter-dependency, stability, and regularity. If a state is not dependent on another, then there is no way for either state to be mutually affected by the other. This is one of the driving forces behind global connections and trade; without either, globalization would not have emerged the way it did and states would still be dependent on their own production and resources to work. This is one of the arguments surrounding the idea of early globalization. It is argued that archaic globalization did not function in a similar manner to modern globalization because states were not as interdependent on others as they are today.

Also posited is a "multi-polar" nature to archaic globalization, which involved the active participation of non-Europeans. Because it predated the Great Divergence in the nineteenth century, where Western Europe pulled ahead of the rest of the world in terms of industrial production and economic output, archaic globalization was a phenomenon that was driven not only by Europe but also by other economically developed Old World centers such as Gujarat, Bengal, coastal China, and Japan.

Portuguese carrack in Nagasaki, 17th-century Japanese Nanban art

The German historical economist and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank argues that a form of globalization began with the rise of trade links between Sumer and the Indus Valley civilization in the third millennium BCE. This archaic globalization existed during the Hellenistic Age, when commercialized urban centers enveloped the axis of Greek culture that reached from India to Spain, including Alexandria and the other Alexandrine cities. Early on, the geographic position of Greece and the necessity of importing wheat forced the Greeks to engage in maritime trade. Trade in ancient Greece was largely unrestricted: the state controlled only the supply of grain.

The Silk Road in the 1st century
Native New World crops exchanged globally (clockwise): Maize, tomato, potato, vanilla, rubber, cacao, tobacco

Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of civilizations from China, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Europe, and Arabia, opening long-distance political and economic interactions between them. Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, common goods such as salt and sugar were traded as well; and religions, syncretic philosophies, and various technologies, as well as diseases, also traveled along the Silk Routes. In addition to economic trade, the Silk Road served as a means of carrying out cultural trade among the civilizations along its network. The movement of people, such as refugees, artists, craftsmen, missionaries, robbers, and envoys, resulted in the exchange of religions, art, languages, and new technologies. From around 3000 BCE to 1000 CE, connectivity within Afro-Eurasia was centered upon the Indo-Mediterranean region, with the Silk Road later rising in importance with the Mongol Empire's consolidation of Asia in the 13th century.

Early modern

Main article: Proto-globalization

"Early modern" or "proto-globalization" covers a period of the history of globalization roughly spanning the years between 1600 and 1800. The concept of "proto-globalization" was first introduced by historians A. G. Hopkins and Christopher Bayly. The term describes the phase of increasing trade links and cultural exchange that characterized the period immediately preceding the advent of high "modern globalization" in the late 19th century. This phase of globalization was characterized by the rise of maritime European empires, in the 15th and 17th centuries, first the Portuguese Empire (1415) followed by the Spanish Empire (1492), and later the Dutch and British Empires. In the 17th century, world trade developed further when chartered companies like the British East India Company (founded in 1600) and the Dutch East India Company (founded in 1602, often described as the first multinational corporation in which stock was offered) were established.

Lisbon in the 1570s had many Africans due to the Atlantic slave trade.

An alternative view from historians Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez, postulated that: globalization began with the first circumnavigation of the globe under the Magellan-Elcano expedition which preluded the rise of global silver trade.

Early modern globalization is distinguished from modern globalization on the basis of expansionism, the method of managing global trade, and the level of information exchange. The period is marked by the shift of hegemony to Western Europe, the rise of larger-scale conflicts between powerful nations such as the Thirty Years' War, and demand for commodities, most particularly slaves. The triangular trade made it possible for Europe to take advantage of resources within the Western Hemisphere. The transfer of animal stocks, plant crops, and epidemic diseases associated with Alfred W. Crosby's concept of the Columbian exchange also played a central role in this process. European, Middle Eastern, Indian, Southeast Asian, and Chinese merchants were all involved in early modern trade and communications, particularly in the Indian Ocean region.

The 1843 launch of the Great Britain, the revolutionary ship of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the United Kingdom was a global superpower.

Modern

According to economic historians Kevin H. O'Rourke, Leandro Prados de la Escosura, and Guillaume Daudin, several factors promoted globalization in the period 1815–1870:

  • The conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars brought in an era of relative peace in Europe.
  • Innovations in transportation technology reduced trade costs substantially.
  • New industrial military technologies increased the power of European states and the United States, and allowed these powers to forcibly open up markets across the world and extend their empires.
  • A gradual move towards greater liberalization in European countries.

During the 19th century, globalization approached its form as a direct result of the Industrial Revolution. Industrialization allowed standardized production of household items using economies of scale while rapid population growth created sustained demand for commodities. In the 19th century, steamships reduced the cost of international transportation significantly and railroads made inland transportation cheaper. The transportation revolution occurred some time between 1820 and 1850. More nations embraced international trade. Globalization in this period was decisively shaped by nineteenth-century imperialism such as in Africa and Asia.

Contemporary

After World War II, work by politicians led to the agreements of the Bretton Woods Conference, in which major governments laid down the framework for international monetary policy, commerce, and finance, and the founding of several international institutions intended to facilitate economic growth by lowering trade barriers. Initially, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) led to a series of agreements to remove trade restrictions. GATT's successor was the World Trade Organization (WTO), which provided a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements and a dispute resolution process. Exports nearly doubled from 8.5% of total gross world product in 1970 to 16.2% in 2001. The approach of using global agreements to advance trade stumbled with the failure of the Doha Development Round of trade negotiation. Many countries then shifted to bilateral or smaller multilateral agreements, such as the 2011 United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement.

The invention of shipping containers in 1956 helped advance the globalization of commerce. Since the 1970s, aviation has become increasingly affordable to middle classes in developed countries. Open skies policies and low-cost carriers have helped to bring competition to the market. In the 1990s, the growth of low-cost communication networks cut the cost of communicating between countries. More work can be performed using a computer without regard to location. This included accounting, software development, and engineering design.

Student exchange programs became popular after World War II, and are intended to increase the participants' understanding and tolerance of other cultures, as well as improving their language skills and broadening their social horizons. Between 1963 and 2006 the number of students studying in a foreign country increased 9 times.

D.H. Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner, entered service in 1949.

Since the 1980s, modern globalization has spread rapidly through the expansion of capitalism and neoliberal ideologies. The implementation of neoliberal policies has allowed for the privatization of public industry, deregulation of laws or policies that interfered with the free flow of the market, as well as cut-backs to governmental social services. These neoliberal policies were introduced to many developing countries in the form of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) that were implemented by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These programs required that the country receiving monetary aid would open its markets to capitalism, privatize public industry, allow free trade, cut social services like healthcare and education and allow the free movement of giant multinational corporations. These programs allowed the World Bank and the IMF to become global financial market regulators that would promote neoliberalism and the creation of free markets for multinational corporations on a global scale.

With a population of 1.4 billion, China is the world's second-largest economy.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, the connectedness of the world's economies and cultures grew very quickly. This slowed down from the 1910s onward due to the World Wars and the Cold War, but picked up again in the 1980s and 1990s. The revolutions of 1989 and subsequent liberalization in many parts of the world resulted in a significant expansion of global interconnectedness. The migration and movement of people can also be highlighted as a prominent feature of the globalization process. In the period between 1965 and 1990, the proportion of the labor force migrating approximately doubled. Most migration occurred between the developing countries and least developed countries (LDCs). As economic integration intensified workers moved to areas with higher wages and most of the developing world oriented toward the international market economy. The collapse of the Soviet Union not only ended the Cold War's division of the world – it also left the United States its sole policeman and an unfettered advocate of free market. It also resulted in the growing prominence of attention focused on the movement of diseases, the proliferation of popular culture and consumer values, the growing prominence of international institutions like the UN, and concerted international action on such issues as the environment and human rights. Other developments as dramatic were the Internet's becoming influential in connecting people across the world; As of June 2012, more than 2.4 billion people—over a third of the world's human population—have used the services of the Internet. Growth of globalization has never been smooth. One influential event was the late 2000s recession, which was associated with lower growth (in areas such as cross-border phone calls and Skype usage) or even temporarily negative growth (in areas such as trade) of global interconnectedness.

The China–United States trade war, starting in 2018, negatively affected trade between the two largest national economies. The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic included a massive decline in tourism and international business travel as many countries temporarily closed borders. The 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis resulted from temporary shutdowns of manufacturing and transportation facilities, and labor shortages. Supply problems incentivized some switches to domestic production. The economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine included a blockade of Ukrainian ports and international sanctions on Russia, resulting in some de-coupling of the Russian economy with global trade, especially with the European Union and other Western countries.

Modern consensus for the last 15 years regards globalization as having run its course and gone into decline. A common argument for this is that trade has dropped since its peak in 2008, and never recovered since the Great Recession. New opposing views from some economists have argued such trends are a result of price drops and in actuality, trade volume is increasing, especially with agricultural products, natural resources and refined petroleum. The 21st century melting of the Arctic will also affect global trade, as it is paving the way for shorter trade routes.

Economic globalization

Main article: Economic globalization
Singapore is the top country in the Enabling Trade Index as of 2016.
U.S. Trade Balance and Trade Policy (1895–2015)
Dividends worth CZK 289 billion were paid to the foreign owners of Czech companies in 2016.

Economic globalization is the increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, services, technology, and capital. Whereas the globalization of business is centered around the diminution of international trade regulations as well as tariffs, taxes, and other impediments that suppresses global trade, economic globalization is the process of increasing economic integration between countries, leading to the emergence of a global marketplace or a single world market. Depending on the paradigm, economic globalization can be viewed as either a positive or a negative phenomenon. Economic globalization comprises: globalization of production; which refers to the obtainment of goods and services from a particular source from locations around the globe to benefit from difference in cost and quality. Likewise, it also comprises globalization of markets; which is defined as the union of different and separate markets into a massive global marketplace. Economic globalization also includes competition, technology, and corporations and industries.

Current globalization trends can be largely accounted for by developed economies integrating with less developed economies by means of foreign direct investment, the reduction of trade barriers as well as other economic reforms, and, in many cases, immigration.

International standards have made trade in goods and services more efficient. An example of such standard is the intermodal container. Containerization dramatically reduced the costs of transportation, supported the post-war boom in international trade, and was a major element in globalization. International standards are set by the International Organization for Standardization, which is composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.

A multinational corporation, or worldwide enterprise, is an organization that owns or controls the production of goods or services in one or more countries other than their home country. It can also be referred to as an international corporation, a transnational corporation, or a stateless corporation.

A free-trade area is the region encompassing a trade bloc whose member countries have signed a free-trade agreement (FTA). Such agreements involve cooperation between at least two countries to reduce trade barriers – import quotas and tariffs – and to increase trade of goods and services with each other.

If people are also free to move between the countries, in addition to a free-trade agreement, it would also be considered an open border. Arguably, the most significant free-trade area in the world is the European Union, a politico-economic union of 27 member states that are primarily located in Europe. The EU has developed European Single Market through a standardized system of laws that apply in all member states. EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital within the internal market,

Trade facilitation looks at how procedures and controls governing the movement of goods across national borders can be improved to reduce associated cost burdens and maximize efficiency while safeguarding legitimate regulatory objectives.

Global trade in services is also significant. For example, in India, business process outsourcing has been described as the "primary engine of the country's development over the next few decades, contributing broadly to GDP growth, employment growth, and poverty alleviation".

William I. Robinson's theoretical approach to globalization is a critique of Wallerstein's World Systems Theory. He believes that the global capital experienced today is due to a new and distinct form of globalization which began in the 1980s. Robinson argues not only are economic activities expanded across national boundaries but also there is a transnational fragmentation of these activities. One important aspect of Robinson's globalization theory is that production of goods are increasingly global. This means that one pair of shoes can be produced by six countries, each contributing to a part of the production process.

Cultural globalization

Main article: Cultural globalization
Shakira, a Colombian multilingual singer-songwriter, playing outside her home country

Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings, and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations. This process is marked by the common consumption of cultures that have been diffused by the Internet, popular culture media, and international travel. This has added to processes of commodity exchange and colonization which have a longer history of carrying cultural meaning around the globe. The circulation of cultures enables individuals to partake in extended social relations that cross national and regional borders. The creation and expansion of such social relations is not merely observed on a material level. Cultural globalization involves the formation of shared norms and knowledge with which people associate their individual and collective cultural identities. It brings increasing interconnectedness among different populations and cultures.

Cross-cultural communication is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures. Intercultural communication is a related field of study.

Cultural diffusion is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages etc. Cultural globalization has increased cross-cultural contacts, but may be accompanied by a decrease in the uniqueness of once-isolated communities. For example, sushi is available in Germany as well as Japan, but Euro-Disney outdraws the city of Paris, potentially reducing demand for "authentic" French pastry. Globalization's contribution to the alienation of individuals from their traditions may be modest compared to the impact of modernity itself, as alleged by existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Globalization has expanded recreational opportunities by spreading pop culture, particularly via the Internet and satellite television. The cultural diffusion can create a homogenizing force, where globalization is seen as synonymous with homogenizing force via connectedness of markets, cultures, politics and the desire for modernizations through imperial countries sphere of influence.

Religions were among the earliest cultural elements to globalize, being spread by force, migration, evangelists, imperialists, and traders. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and more recently sects such as Mormonism are among those religions which have taken root and influenced endemic cultures in places far from their origins.

McDonald's is commonly seen as a symbol of globalization, often called McDonaldization of global society.

Globalization has strongly influenced sports. For example, the modern Olympic Games has athletes from more than 200 nations participating in a variety of competitions. The FIFA World Cup is the most widely viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games; a ninth of the entire population of the planet watched the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final.

The term globalization implies transformation. Cultural practices including traditional music can be lost or turned into a fusion of traditions. Globalization can trigger a state of emergency for the preservation of musical heritage. Archivists may attempt to collect, record, or transcribe repertoires before melodies are assimilated or modified, while local musicians may struggle for authenticity and to preserve local musical traditions. Globalization can lead performers to discard traditional instruments. Fusion genres can become interesting fields of analysis.

Music has an important role in economic and cultural development during globalization. Music genres such as jazz and reggae began locally and later became international phenomena. Globalization gave support to the world music phenomenon by allowing music from developing countries to reach broader audiences. Though the term "World Music" was originally intended for ethnic-specific music, globalization is now expanding its scope such that the term often includes hybrid subgenres such as "world fusion", "global fusion", "ethnic fusion", and worldbeat.

Use of chili pepper has spread from the Americas to cuisines around the world, including Thailand, Korea, China, and Italy.

Bourdieu claimed that the perception of consumption can be seen as self-identification and the formation of identity. Musically, this translates into each individual having their own musical identity based on likes and tastes. These likes and tastes are greatly influenced by culture, as this is the most basic cause for a person's wants and behavior. The concept of one's own culture is now in a period of change due to globalization. Also, globalization has increased the interdependency of political, personal, cultural, and economic factors.

A 2005 UNESCO report showed that cultural exchange is becoming more frequent from Eastern Asia, but that Western countries are still the main exporters of cultural goods. In 2002, China was the third largest exporter of cultural goods, after the UK and US. Between 1994 and 2002, both North America's and the European Union's shares of cultural exports declined while Asia's cultural exports grew to surpass North America. Related factors are the fact that Asia's population and area are several times that of North America. Americanization is related to a period of high political American clout and of significant growth of America's shops, markets and objects being brought into other countries.

Some critics of globalization argue that it harms the diversity of cultures. As a dominating country's culture is introduced into a receiving country through globalization, it can become a threat to the diversity of local culture. Some argue that globalization may ultimately lead to Westernization or Americanization of culture, where the dominating cultural concepts of economically and politically powerful Western countries spread and cause harm to local cultures.

Globalization is a diverse phenomenon that relates to a multilateral political world and to the increase of cultural objects and markets between countries. The Indian experience particularly reveals the plurality of the impact of cultural globalization.

Transculturalism is defined as "seeing oneself in the other". Transcultural is in turn described as "extending through all human cultures" or "involving, encompassing, or combining elements of more than one culture". Children brought up in transcultural backgrounds are sometimes called third-culture kids.

Political globalization

Main article: Political globalization See also: Military globalization
The United Nations headquarters in New York City

Political globalization refers to the growth of the worldwide political system, both in size and complexity. That system includes national governments, their governmental and intergovernmental organizations as well as government-independent elements of global civil society such as international non-governmental organizations and social movement organizations. One of the key aspects of the political globalization is the declining importance of the nation-state and the rise of other actors on the political scene. William R. Thompson has defined it as "the expansion of a global political system, and its institutions, in which inter-regional transactions (including, but certainly not limited to trade) are managed". Political globalization is one of the three main dimensions of globalization commonly found in academic literature, with the two other being economic globalization and cultural globalization.

Intergovernmentalism is a term in political science with two meanings. The first refers to a theory of regional integration originally proposed by Stanley Hoffmann; the second treats states and the national government as the primary factors for integration. Multi-level governance is an approach in political science and public administration theory that originated from studies on European integration. Multi-level governance gives expression to the idea that there are many interacting authority structures at work in the emergent global political economy. It illuminates the intimate entanglement between the domestic and international levels of authority.

Some people are citizens of multiple nation-states. Multiple citizenship, also called dual citizenship or multiple nationality or dual nationality, is a person's citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of more than one state under the laws of those states.

U.S. military presence around the world in 2007. As of 2015, the U.S. still had many bases and troops stationed globally.

Increasingly, non-governmental organizations influence public policy across national boundaries, including humanitarian aid and developmental efforts. Philanthropic organizations with global missions are also coming to the forefront of humanitarian efforts; charities such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Accion International, the Acumen Fund (now Acumen) and the Echoing Green have combined the business model with philanthropy, giving rise to business organizations such as the Global Philanthropy Group and new associations of philanthropists such as the Global Philanthropy Forum. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation projects include a current multibillion-dollar commitment to funding immunizations in some of the world's more impoverished but rapidly growing countries. The Hudson Institute estimates total private philanthropic flows to developing countries at US$59 billion in 2010.

As a response to globalization, some countries have embraced isolationist policies. For example, the North Korean government makes it very difficult for foreigners to enter the country and strictly monitors their activities when they do. Aid workers are subject to considerable scrutiny and excluded from places and regions the government does not wish them to enter. Citizens cannot freely leave the country.

Globalization and gender

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Globalization has been a gendered process where giant multinational corporations have outsourced jobs to low-wage, low skilled, quota free economies like the ready made garment industry in Bangladesh where poor women make up the majority of labor force. Despite a large proportion of women workers in the garment industry, women are still heavily underemployed compared to men. Most women that are employed in the garment industry come from the countryside of Bangladesh triggering migration of women in search of garment work. It is still unclear as to whether or not access to paid work for women where it did not exist before has empowered them. The answers varied depending on whether it is the employers perspective or the workers and how they view their choices. Women workers did not see the garment industry as economically sustainable for them in the long run due to long hours standing and poor working conditions. Although women workers did show significant autonomy over their personal lives including their ability to negotiate with family, more choice in marriage, and being valued as a wage earner in the family. This did not translate into workers being able to collectively organize themselves in order to negotiate a better deal for themselves at work.

Another example of outsourcing in manufacturing includes the maquiladora industry in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico where poor women make up the majority of the labor force. Women in the maquiladora industry have produced high levels of turnover not staying long enough to be trained compared to men. A gendered two tiered system within the maquiladora industry has been created that focuses on training and worker loyalty. Women are seen as being untrainable, placed in un-skilled, low wage jobs, while men are seen as more trainable with less turnover rates, and placed in more high skilled technical jobs. The idea of training has become a tool used against women to blame them for their high turnover rates which also benefit the industry keeping women as temporary workers.

Other dimensions

Scholars also occasionally discuss other, less common dimensions of globalization, such as environmental globalization (the internationally coordinated practices and regulations, often in the form of international treaties, regarding environmental protection) or military globalization (growth in global extent and scope of security relationships). Those dimensions, however, receive much less attention the three described above, as academic literature commonly subdivides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization and political globalization.

Movement of people

Scheduled airline traffic in 2009

An essential aspect of globalization is movement of people, and state-boundary limits on that movement have changed across history. The movement of tourists and business people opened up over the last century. As transportation technology improved, travel time and costs decreased dramatically between the 18th and early 20th century. For example, travel across the Atlantic Ocean used to take up to 5 weeks in the 18th century, but around the time of the 20th century it took a mere 8 days. Today, modern aviation has made long-distance transportation quick and affordable.

Tourism is travel for pleasure. The developments in technology and transportation infrastructure, such as jumbo jets, low-cost airlines, and more accessible airports have made many types of tourism more affordable. At any given moment half a million people are in the air. International tourist arrivals surpassed the milestone of 1 billion tourists globally for the first time in 2012. A visa is a conditional authorization granted by a country to a foreigner, allowing them to enter and temporarily remain within, or to leave that country. Some countries – such as those in the Schengen Area – have agreements with other countries allowing each other's citizens to travel between them without visas (for example, Switzerland is part of a Schengen Agreement allowing easy travel for people from countries within the European Union). The World Tourism Organization announced that the number of tourists who require a visa before traveling was at its lowest level ever in 2015.

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker. According to the International Labour Organization, as of 2014 there were an estimated 232 million international migrants in the world (defined as persons outside their country of origin for 12 months or more) and approximately half of them were estimated to be economically active (i.e. being employed or seeking employment). International movement of labor is often seen as important to economic development. For example, freedom of movement for workers in the European Union means that people can move freely between member states to live, work, study or retire in another country.

2010 London Youth Games opening ceremony. About 69% of children born in London in 2015 had at least one parent who was born abroad.

Globalization is associated with a dramatic rise in international education. The development of global cross-cultural competence in the workforce through ad-hoc training has deserved increasing attention in recent times. More and more students are seeking higher education in foreign countries and many international students now consider overseas study a stepping-stone to permanent residency within a country. The contributions that foreign students make to host nation economies, both culturally and financially has encouraged major players to implement further initiatives to facilitate the arrival and integration of overseas students, including substantial amendments to immigration and visa policies and procedures.

A transnational marriage is a marriage between two people from different countries. A variety of special issues arise in marriages between people from different countries, including those related to citizenship and culture, which add complexity and challenges to these kinds of relationships. In an age of increasing globalization, where a growing number of people have ties to networks of people and places across the globe, rather than to a current geographic location, people are increasingly marrying across national boundaries. Transnational marriage is a by-product of the movement and migration of people.

Movement of information

See also: Internet
Internet users by region
Region 2005 2010 2017 2023
Africa 2% 10% 21.8% 37%
Americas 36% 49% 65.9% 87%
Arab States 8% 26% 43.7% 69%
Asia and Pacific 9% 23% 43.9% 66%
Commonwealth of
Independent States
10% 34% 67.7% 89%
Europe 46% 67% 79.6% 91%
The global digital divide: Computers per 100 people per 2006

Before electronic communications, long-distance communications relied on mail. Speed of global communications was limited by the maximum speed of courier services (especially horses and ships) until the mid-19th century. The electric telegraph was the first method of instant long-distance communication. For example, before the first transatlantic cable, communications between Europe and the Americas took weeks because ships had to carry mail across the ocean. The first transatlantic cable reduced communication time considerably, allowing a message and a response in the same day. Lasting transatlantic telegraph connections were achieved in the 1865–1866. The first wireless telegraphy transmitters were developed in 1895.

The Internet has been instrumental in connecting people across geographical boundaries. For example, Facebook is a social networking service which has more than 1.65 billion monthly active users as of 31 March 2016.

Globalization can be spread by Global journalism which provides massive information and relies on the internet to interact, "makes it into an everyday routine to investigate how people and their actions, practices, problems, life conditions, etc. in different parts of the world are interrelated. possible to assume that global threats such as climate change precipitate the further establishment of global journalism."

Globalization and disease

Main article: Globalization and disease See also: Virgin soil epidemic, Wildlife smuggling and zoonoses, Emerging infectious disease, and Pandemic

In the current era of globalization, the world is more interdependent than at any other time. Efficient and inexpensive transportation has left few places inaccessible, and increased global trade has brought more and more people into contact with animal diseases that have subsequently jumped species barriers (see zoonosis).

Coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated COVID-19, first appeared in Wuhan, China in November 2019. More than 180 countries have reported cases since then. As of April 6, 2020, the U.S. has the most confirmed active cases in the world. More than 3.4 million people from the worst-affected countries entered the U.S. in the first three months since the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has caused a detrimental impact on the global economy, particularly for SME's and Microbusinesses with unlimited liability/self-employed, leaving them vulnerable to financial difficulties, increasing the market share for oligopolistic markets as well as increasing the barriers of entry.

Measurement

See also: List of globalization-related indices

One index of globalization is the KOF Index of Globalization, which measures three important dimensions of globalization: economic, social, and political. Another is the A.T. Kearney / Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index.


2014 KOF Index of Globalization
Rank Country
1 Ireland
2 Belgium
3 Netherlands
4 Austria
5 Singapore
6 Denmark
7 Sweden
8 Portugal
9 Hungary
10 Finland
 
2006 A.T. Kearney / Foreign Policy Magazine
Globalization Index
Rank Country
1 Singapore
2 Switzerland
3 United States
4 Ireland
5 Denmark
6 Canada
7 Netherlands
8 Australia
9 Austria
10 Sweden

Measurements of economic globalization typically focus on variables such as trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), portfolio investment, and income. However, newer indices attempt to measure globalization in more general terms, including variables related to political, social, cultural, and even environmental aspects of globalization.

The DHL Global Connectedness Index studies four main types of cross-border flow: trade (in both goods and services), information, people (including tourists, students, and migrants), and capital. It shows that the depth of global integration fell by about one-tenth after 2008, but by 2013 had recovered well above its pre-crash peak. The report also found a shift of economic activity to emerging economies.

Support and criticism

See also: Criticisms of globalization
The European Union–Mercosur free trade agreement, which would form one of the world's largest free trade areas, has been denounced by environmental activists and indigenous rights campaigners.

Reactions to processes contributing to globalization have varied widely with a history as long as extraterritorial contact and trade. Philosophical differences regarding the costs and benefits of such processes give rise to a broad-range of ideologies and social movements. Proponents of economic growth, expansion, and development, in general, view globalizing processes as desirable or necessary to the well-being of human society.

Antagonists view one or more globalizing processes as detrimental to social well-being on a global or local scale; this includes those who focus on social or natural sustainability of long-term and continuous economic expansion, the social structural inequality caused by these processes, and the colonial, imperialistic, or hegemonic ethnocentrism, cultural assimilation and cultural appropriation that underlie such processes.

Globalization tends to bring people into contact with foreign people and cultures. Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity.

Critiques of globalization generally stem from discussions surrounding the impact of such processes on the planet as well as the human costs. They challenge directly traditional metrics, such as GDP, and look to other measures, such as the Gini coefficient or the Happy Planet Index, and point to a "multitude of interconnected fatal consequences–social disintegration, a breakdown of democracy, more rapid and extensive deterioration of the environment, the spread of new diseases, increasing poverty and alienation" which they claim are the unintended consequences of globalization. Others point out that, while the forces of globalization have led to the spread of western-style democracy, this has been accompanied by an increase in inter-ethnic tension and violence as free market economic policies combine with democratic processes of universal suffrage as well as an escalation in militarization to impose democratic principles and as a means to conflict resolution.

On 9 August 2019, Pope Francis denounced isolationism and hinted that the Catholic Church will embrace globalization at the October 2019 Amazonia Synod, stating "the whole is greater than the parts. Globalization and unity should not be conceived as a sphere, but as a polyhedron: each people retains its identity in unity with others"

Public opinion

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As a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, globalization is considered by some as a form of capitalist expansion which entails the integration of local and national economies into a global, unregulated market economy. A 2005 study by Peer Fis and Paul Hirsch found a large increase in articles negative towards globalization in the years prior. In 1998, negative articles outpaced positive articles by two to one. The number of newspaper articles showing negative framing rose from about 10% of the total in 1991 to 55% of the total in 1999. This increase occurred during a period when the total number of articles concerning globalization nearly doubled.

A number of international polls have shown that residents of Africa and Asia tend to view globalization more favorably than residents of Europe or North America. In Africa, a Gallup poll found that 70% of the population views globalization favorably. The BBC found that 50% of people believed that economic globalization was proceeding too rapidly, while 35% believed it was proceeding too slowly.

In 2004, Philip Gordon stated that "a clear majority of Europeans believe that globalization can enrich their lives, while believing the European Union can help them take advantage of globalization's benefits while shielding them from its negative effects". The main opposition consisted of socialists, environmental groups, and nationalists. Residents of the EU did not appear to feel threatened by globalization in 2004. The EU job market was more stable and workers were less likely to accept wage/benefit cuts. Social spending was much higher than in the US. In a Danish poll in 2007, 76% responded that globalization is a good thing.

Fiss, et al., surveyed US opinion in 1993. Their survey showed that, in 1993, more than 40% of respondents were unfamiliar with the concept of globalization. When the survey was repeated in 1998, 89% of the respondents had a polarized view of globalization as being either good or bad. At the same time, discourse on globalization, which began in the financial community before shifting to a heated debate between proponents and disenchanted students and workers. Polarization increased dramatically after the establishment of the WTO in 1995; this event and subsequent protests led to a large-scale anti-globalization movement. Initially, college educated workers were likely to support globalization. Less educated workers, who were more likely to compete with immigrants and workers in developing countries, tended to be opponents. The situation changed after the Great Recession. According to a 1997 poll 58% of college graduates said globalization had been good for the US. By 2008 only 33% thought it was good. Respondents with high school education also became more opposed.

According to Takenaka Heizo and Chida Ryokichi, as of 1998 there was a perception in Japan that the economy was "Small and Frail". However, Japan was resource-poor and used exports to pay for its raw materials. Anxiety over their position caused terms such as internationalization and globalization to enter everyday language. However, Japanese tradition was to be as self-sufficient as possible, particularly in agriculture.

Many in developing countries see globalization as a positive force that lifts them out of poverty. Those opposing globalization typically combine environmental concerns with nationalism. Opponents consider governments as agents of neo-colonialism that are subservient to multinational corporations. Much of this criticism comes from the middle class; the Brookings Institution suggested this was because the middle class perceived upwardly mobile low-income groups as threatening to their economic security.

Economics

Hu Jintao of China and George W. Bush meet while attending an APEC summit in Santiago de Chile, 2004.

The literature analyzing the economics of free trade is extremely rich with extensive work having been done on the theoretical and empirical effects. Though it creates winners and losers, the broad consensus among economists is that free trade is a large and unambiguous net gain for society. In a 2006 survey of 83 American economists, "87.5% agree that the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade" and "90.1% disagree with the suggestion that the U.S. should restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries."

Quoting Harvard economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw, "Few propositions command as much consensus among professional economists as that open world trade increases economic growth and raises living standards." In a survey of leading economists, none disagreed with the notion that "freer trade improves productive efficiency and offers consumers better choices, and in the long run these gains are much larger than any effects on employment." Most economists would agree that although increasing returns to scale might mean that certain industry could settle in a geographical area without any strong economic reason derived from comparative advantage, this is not a reason to argue against free trade because the absolute level of output enjoyed by both "winner" and "loser" will increase with the "winner" gaining more than the "loser" but both gaining more than before in an absolute level.

In the book The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs discusses how many factors can affect a country's ability to enter the world market, including government corruption; legal and social disparities based on gender, ethnicity, or caste; diseases such as AIDS and malaria; lack of infrastructure (including transportation, communications, health, and trade); unstable political landscapes; protectionism; and geographic barriers. Jagdish Bhagwati, a former adviser to the U.N. on globalization, holds that, although there are obvious problems with overly rapid development, globalization is a very positive force that lifts countries out of poverty by causing a virtuous economic cycle associated with faster economic growth. However, economic growth does not necessarily mean a reduction in poverty; in fact, the two can coexist. Economic growth is conventionally measured using indicators such as GDP and GNI that do not accurately reflect the growing disparities in wealth. Additionally, Oxfam International argues that poor people are often excluded from globalization-induced opportunities "by a lack of productive assets, weak infrastructure, poor education and ill-health;" effectively leaving these marginalized groups in a poverty trap. Economist Paul Krugman is another staunch supporter of globalization and free trade with a record of disagreeing with many critics of globalization. He argues that many of them lack a basic understanding of comparative advantage and its importance in today's world.

The flow of migrants to advanced economies has been claimed to provide a means through which global wages converge. An IMF study noted a potential for skills to be transferred back to developing countries as wages in those a countries rise. Lastly, the dissemination of knowledge has been an integral aspect of globalization. Technological innovations (or technological transfer) are conjectured to benefit most developing and least developing countries (LDCs), as for example in the adoption of mobile phones.

There has been a rapid economic growth in Asia after embracing market orientation-based economic policies that encourage private property rights, free enterprise and competition. In particular, in East Asian developing countries, GDP per head rose at 5.9% a year from 1975 to 2001 (according to 2003 Human Development Report of UNDP). Like this, the British economic journalist Martin Wolf says that incomes of poor developing countries, with more than half the world's population, grew substantially faster than those of the world's richest countries that remained relatively stable in its growth, leading to reduced international inequality and the incidence of poverty.

Of the factors influencing the duration of economic growth in both developed and developing countries, income equality has a more beneficial impact than trade openness, sound political institutions, and foreign investment.

Certain demographic changes in the developing world after active economic liberalization and international integration resulted in rising general welfare and, hence, reduced inequality. According to Wolf, in the developing world as a whole, life expectancy rose by four months each year after 1970 and infant mortality rate declined from 107 per thousand in 1970 to 58 in 2000 due to improvements in standards of living and health conditions. Also, adult literacy in developing countries rose from 53% in 1970 to 74% in 1998 and much lower illiteracy rate among the young guarantees that rates will continue to fall as time passes. Furthermore, the reduction in fertility rate in the developing world as a whole from 4.1 births per woman in 1980 to 2.8 in 2000 indicates improved education level of women on fertility, and control of fewer children with more parental attention and investment. Consequently, more prosperous and educated parents with fewer children have chosen to withdraw their children from the labor force to give them opportunities to be educated at school improving the issue of child labor. Thus, despite seemingly unequal distribution of income within these developing countries, their economic growth and development have brought about improved standards of living and welfare for the population as a whole.

Per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth among post-1980 globalizing countries accelerated from 1.4 percent a year in the 1960s and 2.9 percent a year in the 1970s to 3.5 percent in the 1980s and 5.0 percent in the 1990s. This acceleration in growth seems even more remarkable given that the rich countries saw steady declines in growth from a high of 4.7 percent in the 1960s to 2.2 percent in the 1990s. Also, the non-globalizing developing countries seem to fare worse than the globalizers, with the former's annual growth rates falling from highs of 3.3 percent during the 1970s to only 1.4 percent during the 1990s. This rapid growth among the globalizers is not simply due to the strong performances of China and India in the 1980s and 1990s—18 out of the 24 globalizers experienced increases in growth, many of them quite substantial.

Worlds regions by total wealth (in trillions USD), 2018

The globalization of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has led to the resurfacing of the idea that the growth of economic interdependence promotes peace. This idea had been very powerful during the globalization of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a central doctrine of classical liberals of that era, such as the young John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946).

Some opponents of globalization see the phenomenon as a promotion of corporate interests. They also claim that the increasing autonomy and strength of corporate entities shapes the political policy of countries. They advocate global institutions and policies that they believe better address the moral claims of poor and working classes as well as environmental concerns. Economic arguments by fair trade theorists claim that unrestricted free trade benefits those with more financial leverage (i.e. the rich) at the expense of the poor.

Globalization allows corporations to outsource manufacturing and service jobs from high-cost locations, creating economic opportunities with the most competitive wages and worker benefits. Critics of globalization say that it disadvantages poorer countries. While it is true that free trade encourages globalization among countries, some countries try to protect their domestic suppliers. The main export of poorer countries is usually agricultural productions. Larger countries often subsidize their farmers (e.g., the EU's Common Agricultural Policy), which lowers the market price for foreign crops.

Global democracy

Main article: Democratic globalization

Democratic globalization is a movement towards an institutional system of global democracy that would give world citizens a say in political organizations. This would, in their view, bypass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological non-governmental organizations (NGO), political cults and mafias. One of its most prolific proponents is the British political thinker David Held. Advocates of democratic globalization argue that economic expansion and development should be the first phase of democratic globalization, which is to be followed by a phase of building global political institutions. Francesco Stipo, Director of the United States Association of the Club of Rome, advocates unifying nations under a world government, suggesting that it "should reflect the political and economic balances of world nations. A world confederation would not supersede the authority of the State governments but rather complement it, as both the States and the world authority would have power within their sphere of competence". Former Canadian Senator Douglas Roche, O.C., viewed globalization as inevitable and advocated creating institutions such as a directly elected United Nations Parliamentary Assembly to exercise oversight over unelected international bodies.

Global civics

Main articles: Global civics and Multiculturalism See also: Global citizenship

Global civics suggests that civics can be understood, in a global sense, as a social contract between global citizens in the age of interdependence and interaction. The disseminators of the concept define it as the notion that we have certain rights and responsibilities towards each other by the mere fact of being human on Earth. World citizen has a variety of similar meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship. An early incarnation of this sentiment can be found in Socrates, whom Plutarch quoted as saying: "I am not an Athenian, or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." In an increasingly interdependent world, world citizens need a compass to frame their mindsets and create a shared consciousness and sense of global responsibility in world issues such as environmental problems and nuclear proliferation.

Baha'i-inspired author Meyjes, while favoring the single world community and emergent global consciousness, warns of globalization as a cloak for an expeditious economic, social, and cultural Anglo-dominance that is insufficiently inclusive to inform the emergence of an optimal world civilization. He proposes a process of "universalization" as an alternative.

Cosmopolitanism is the proposal that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality. A person who adheres to the idea of cosmopolitanism in any of its forms is called a cosmopolitan or cosmopolite. A cosmopolitan community might be based on an inclusive morality, a shared economic relationship, or a political structure that encompasses different nations. The cosmopolitan community is one in which individuals from different places (e.g. nation-states) form relationships based on mutual respect. For instance, Kwame Anthony Appiah suggests the possibility of a cosmopolitan community in which individuals from varying locations (physical, economic, etc.) enter relationships of mutual respect despite their differing beliefs (religious, political, etc.).

Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan popularized the term Global Village beginning in 1962. His view suggested that globalization would lead to a world where people from all countries will become more integrated and aware of common interests and shared humanity.

International cooperation

Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev after signing the New START treaty in Prague, 2010

Military cooperation – Past examples of international cooperation exist. One example is the security cooperation between the United States and the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War, which astonished international society. Arms control and disarmament agreements, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (see START I, START II, START III, and New START) and the establishment of NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Russia NATO Council, and the G8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, constitute concrete initiatives of arms control and de-nuclearization. The US–Russian cooperation was further strengthened by anti-terrorism agreements enacted in the wake of 9/11.

Environmental cooperation – One of the biggest successes of environmental cooperation has been the agreement to reduce chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) emissions, as specified in the Montreal Protocol, in order to stop ozone depletion. The most recent debate around nuclear energy and the non-alternative coal-burning power plants constitutes one more consensus on what not to do. Thirdly, significant achievements in IC can be observed through development studies.

Economic cooperation – One of the biggest challenges in 2019 with globalization is that many believe the progress made in the past decades are now back tracking. The back tracking of globalization has coined the term "Slobalization." Slobalization is a new, slower pattern of globalization.

Anti-globalization movement

Main article: Anti-globalization movement
Anti-TTIP demonstration in Hannover, Germany, 2016

Anti-globalization, or counter-globalization, consists of a number of criticisms of globalization but, in general, is critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization. Opponents of globalization argue that power and respect in terms of international trade between the developed and underdeveloped countries of the world are unequally distributed. The diverse subgroups that make up this movement include some of the following: trade unionists, environmentalists, anarchists, land rights and indigenous rights activists, organizations promoting human rights and sustainable development, opponents of privatization, and anti-sweatshop campaigners.

In The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, Christopher Lasch analyzed the widening gap between the top and bottom of the social composition in the United States. For him, our epoch is determined by a social phenomenon: the revolt of the elites, in reference to The Revolt of the Masses (1929) by the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. According to Lasch, the new elites, i.e. those who are in the top 20% in terms of income, through globalization which allows total mobility of capital, no longer live in the same world as their fellow-citizens. In this, they oppose the old bourgeoisie of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which was constrained by its spatial stability to a minimum of rooting and civic obligations. Globalization, according to the sociologist, has turned elites into tourists in their own countries. The denationalization of business enterprise tends to produce a class who see themselves as "world citizens, but without accepting ... any of the obligations that citizenship in a polity normally implies". Their ties to an international culture of work, leisure, information – make many of them deeply indifferent to the prospect of national decline. Instead of financing public services and the public treasury, new elites are investing their money in improving their voluntary ghettos: private schools in their residential neighborhoods, private police, garbage collection systems. They have "withdrawn from common life". Composed of those who control the international flows of capital and information, who preside over philanthropic foundations and institutions of higher education, manage the instruments of cultural production and thus fix the terms of public debate. So, the political debate is limited mainly to the dominant classes and political ideologies lose all contact with the concerns of the ordinary citizen. The result of this is that no one has a likely solution to these problems and that there are furious ideological battles on related issues. However, they remain protected from the problems affecting the working classes: the decline of industrial activity, the resulting loss of employment, the decline of the middle class, increasing the number of the poor, the rising crime rate, growing drug trafficking, the urban crisis.

D.A. Snow et al. contend that the anti-globalization movement is an example of a new social movement, which uses tactics that are unique and use different resources than previously used before in other social movements.

One of the most infamous tactics of the movement is the Battle of Seattle in 1999, where there were protests against the World Trade Organization's Third Ministerial Meeting. All over the world, the movement has held protests outside meetings of institutions such as the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, and the Group of Eight (G8). Within the Seattle demonstrations the protesters that participated used both creative and violent tactics to gain the attention towards the issue of globalization.

Opposition to capital market integration

Main article: Anti-capitalist movements
World Bank Protester, Jakarta, Indonesia

Capital markets have to do with raising and investing money in various human enterprises. Increasing integration of these financial markets between countries leads to the emergence of a global capital marketplace or a single world market. In the long run, increased movement of capital between countries tends to favor owners of capital more than any other group; in the short run, owners and workers in specific sectors in capital-exporting countries bear much of the burden of adjusting to increased movement of capital.

Those opposed to capital market integration on the basis of human rights issues are especially disturbed by the various abuses which they think are perpetuated by global and international institutions that, they say, promote neoliberalism without regard to ethical standards. Common targets include the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). In light of the economic gap between rich and poor countries, movement adherents claim free trade without measures in place to protect the under-capitalized will contribute only to the strengthening the power of industrialized nations (often termed the "North" in opposition to the developing world's "South").

Anti-corporatism and anti-consumerism

Main articles: Anti-corporatism and Anti-consumerism

Corporatist ideology, which privileges the rights of corporations (artificial or juridical persons) over those of natural persons, is an underlying factor in the recent rapid expansion of global commerce. In recent years, there have been an increasing number of books (Naomi Klein's 2000 No Logo, for example) and films (e.g. The Corporation & Surplus) popularizing an anti-corporate ideology to the public.

A related contemporary ideology, consumerism, which encourages the personal acquisition of goods and services, also drives globalization. Anti-consumerism is a social movement against equating personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions. Concern over the treatment of consumers by large corporations has spawned substantial activism, and the incorporation of consumer education into school curricula. Social activists hold materialism is connected to global retail merchandizing and supplier convergence, war, greed, anomie, crime, environmental degradation, and general social malaise and discontent. One variation on this topic is activism by postconsumers, with the strategic emphasis on moving beyond addictive consumerism.

Global justice and inequality

Global justice

Main article: Global justice movement
Differences in national income equality around the world as measured by the national Gini coefficient, as of 2018

The global justice movement is the loose collection of individuals and groups—often referred to as a "movement of movements"—who advocate fair trade rules and perceive current institutions of global economic integration as problems. The movement is often labeled an anti-globalization movement by the mainstream media. Those involved, however, frequently deny that they are anti-globalization, insisting that they support the globalization of communication and people and oppose only the global expansion of corporate power. The movement is based in the idea of social justice, desiring the creation of a society or institution based on the principles of equality and solidarity, the values of human rights, and the dignity of every human being. Social inequality within and between nations, including a growing global digital divide, is a focal point of the movement. Many nongovernmental organizations have now arisen to fight these inequalities that many in Latin America, Africa and Asia face. A few very popular and well known non-governmental organizations (NGOs) include: War Child, Red Cross, Free The Children and CARE International. They often create partnerships where they work towards improving the lives of those who live in developing countries by building schools, fixing infrastructure, cleaning water supplies, purchasing equipment and supplies for hospitals, and other aid efforts.

Countries by total wealth (trillions USD), Credit Suisse

Social inequality

Main articles: Social inequality and International inequality
Global share of wealth by wealth group, Credit Suisse, 2017

The economies of the world have developed unevenly, historically, such that entire geographical regions were left mired in poverty and disease while others began to reduce poverty and disease on a wholesale basis. From around 1980 through at least 2011, the GDP gap, while still wide, appeared to be closing and, in some more rapidly developing countries, life expectancies began to rise. If we look at the Gini coefficient for world income, since the late 1980s, the gap between some regions has markedly narrowed—between Asia and the advanced economies of the West, for example—but huge gaps remain globally. Overall equality across humanity, considered as individuals, has improved very little. Within the decade between 2003 and 2013, income inequality grew even in traditionally egalitarian countries like Germany, Sweden and Denmark. With a few exceptions—France, Japan, Spain—the top 10 percent of earners in most advanced economies raced ahead, while the bottom 10 percent fell further behind. By 2013, 85 multibillionaires had amassed wealth equivalent to all the wealth owned by the poorest half (3.5 billion) of the world's total population of 7 billion.

Critics of globalization argue that globalization results in weak labor unions: the surplus in cheap labor coupled with an ever-growing number of companies in transition weakened labor unions in high-cost areas. Unions become less effective and workers their enthusiasm for unions when membership begins to decline. They also cite an increase in the exploitation of child labor: countries with weak protections for children are vulnerable to infestation by rogue companies and criminal gangs who exploit them. Examples include quarrying, salvage, and farm work as well as trafficking, bondage, forced labor, prostitution and pornography.

Immigrant rights march for amnesty, Los Angeles, on May Day, 2006

Women often participate in the workforce in precarious work, including export-oriented employment. Evidence suggests that while globalization has expanded women's access to employment, the long-term goal of transforming gender inequalities remains unmet and appears unattainable without regulation of capital and a reorientation and expansion of the state's role in funding public goods and providing a social safety net. Furthermore, the intersectionality of gender, race, class, can be overlooked by scholars and commentators when assessing the impact of globalization.

In 2016, a study published by the IMF posited that neoliberalism, the ideological backbone of contemporary globalized capitalism, has been "oversold", with the benefits of neoliberal policies being "fairly difficult to establish when looking at a broad group of countries" and the costs, most significantly higher income inequality within nations, "hurt the level and sustainability of growth."

Anti-global governance

Main article: Global governance

Beginning in the 1930s, opposition arose to the idea of a world government, as advocated by organizations such as the World Federalist Movement (WFM). Those who oppose global governance typically do so on objections that the idea is unfeasible, inevitably oppressive, or simply unnecessary. In general, these opponents are wary of the concentration of power or wealth that such governance might represent. Such reasoning dates back to the founding of the League of Nations and, later, the United Nations.

Environmentalist opposition

Main article: Environmentalism See also: Climate change and Deforestation
Deforestation of the Madagascar Highland Plateau has led to extensive siltation and unstable flows of western rivers.
a shows carbon footprint (CF) hotspots of foreign final consumption in China. bd show carbon footprint hotspots of the consumption of the United States, Hong Kong, and Japan, respectively. Among all foreign regions, the United States, Hong Kong, and Japan have the largest CFs in China, contributing ~23.0%, 10.8%, and 9.0%, respectively, to the total foreign CF in China in 2012.

Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment. Environmentalist concerns with globalization include issues such as global warming, global water supply and water crises, inequity in energy consumption and energy conservation, transnational air pollution and pollution of the world ocean, overpopulation, world habitat sustainability, deforestation, biodiversity loss and species extinction.

One critique of globalization is that natural resources of the poor have been systematically taken over by the rich and the pollution promulgated by the rich is systematically dumped on the poor. Some argue that Northern corporations are increasingly exploiting resources of less wealthy countries for their global activities while it is the South that is disproportionately bearing the environmental burden of the globalized economy. Globalization is thus leading to a type of" environmental apartheid".

Helena Norberg-Hodge, the director and founder of Local Futures/International Society for Ecology and Culture, criticizes globalization in many ways. In her book Ancient Futures, Norberg-Hodge claims that "centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from the pressures of development and globalization." She also criticizes the standardization and rationalization of globalization, as it does not always yield the expected growth outcomes. Although globalization takes similar steps in most countries, scholars such as Hodge claim that it might not be effective to certain countries and that globalization has actually moved some countries backward instead of developing them.

A related area of concern is the pollution haven hypothesis, which posits that, when large industrialized nations seek to set up factories or offices abroad, they will often look for the cheapest option in terms of resources and labor that offers the land and material access they require (see Race to the bottom). This often comes at the cost of environmentally sound practices. Developing countries with cheap resources and labor tend to have less stringent environmental regulations, and conversely, nations with stricter environmental regulations become more expensive for companies as a result of the costs associated with meeting these standards. Thus, companies that choose to physically invest in foreign countries tend to (re)locate to the countries with the lowest environmental standards or weakest enforcement.

The European Union–Mercosur Free Trade Agreement, which would form one of the world's largest free trade areas, has been denounced by environmental activists and indigenous rights campaigners. The fear is that the deal could lead to more deforestation of the Amazon rainforest as it expands market access to Brazilian beef.

See also

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Further reading

  • Ampuja, Marko. Theorizing Globalization: A Critique of the Mediatization of Social Theory (Brill, 2012)
  • Conner, Tom, and Ikuko Torimoto, eds. Globalization Redux: New Name, Same Game (University Press of America, 2004).
  • Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. "Globalization." in Handbook of Political Anthropology (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018).
  • Frey, James W. "The Global Moment: The Emergence of Globality, 1866–1867, and the Origins of Nineteenth-Century Globalization." The Historian 81.1 (2019): 9. online Archived 3 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, focus on trade and Suez Canal
  • Gunder Frank, Andre, and Robert A. Denemark. ReOrienting the 19th Century: Global Economy in the Continuing Asian Age (Paradigm Publishers, 2013).
  • Hansen, Valerie (2020). The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World―and Globalization Began. Scribner. ISBN 978-1501194108.
  • Hopkins, A.G., ed. Globalization in World History (Norton, 2003).
  • Lechner, Frank J., and John Boli, eds. The Globalization Reader (4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
  • Leibler, Anat. "The Emergence of a Global Economic Order: From Scientific Internationalism to Infrastructural Globalism." in Science, Numbers and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019) pp. 121–145 online.
  • Mir, Salam. "Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Globalization, and Arab Culture." Arab Studies Quarterly 41.1 (2019): 33–58. online
  • Olstein, Diego (2015) "Proto-globalization and Proto-glocalizations in the Middle Millennium." In Kedar, Benjamin and Wiesner-Hanks, Merry (Eds.), Cambridge World History. Volume 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conquest, 500–1500 CE. Cambridge University Press, pp. 665–684
  • Pfister, Ulrich (2012), Globalization, EGO – European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, retrieved: 25 March 2021 (pdf).
  • Pieterse, Jan Nederveen. Globalization and culture: Global mélange (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).
  • Rosenberg, Justin. "Globalization Theory: A Post Mortem," International Politics 42:1 (2005), 2–74.
  • Steger, Manfred B. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • Van Der Bly, Martha C.E. "Globalization: A Triumph of Ambiguity," Current Sociology 53:6 (November 2005), 875–893
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel. "Globalization or the Age of Transition? A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World System," International Sociology 15:2 (June 2000), 251–267.

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