what is globalization?
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Globalization can usefully be conceived as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions, generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction and power. \nIt is characterized by four types of change:\n- First, it involves a stretching of social, political and economic activities across political frontiers, regions and continents.\n- Second, it suggests the intensification, or the growing magnitude, of interconnectedness and flows of trade, investment, finance, migration, culture, etc.\n- Third, the growing extensity and intensity of global interconnectedness can be linked to a speeding up of global interactions and processes, as the evolution of world-wide systems of transport and communication increases the velocity of the diffusion of ideas, goods, information, capital, and people.\n- Fourth, the growing extensity, intensity and velocity of global interactions can be associated with their deepening impact such that the effects of distant events can be highly significant elsewhere and even the most local developments may come to have enormous global consequences. In this sense, the boundaries between domestic matters and global affairs can become increasingly blurred. \nIn sum, globalization can be thought of as the widening, intensifying, speeding up, and growing impact of world-wide interconnectedness. By conceiving of globalization in this way, it becomes possible to map empirically patterns of world-wide links and relations across all key domains of human activity, from the military to the cultural.\n\nFrom the pre-modern, through to the early modern (1500-1800), modern (19th to early 20th century), to the contemporary period, distinctive patterns of globalization can be identified in respect of their different systemic and organizational features - uneven as they often are. These patterns constitute distinctive historical forms of globalization. By comparing and contrasting these changing historical forms, it is possible to identify more precisely what is novel about the present epoch. \nAccordingly, to advance an account of globalization it is necessary to turn from a general concern with its conceptualization to an examination of the key domains of activity and interaction in and through which global processes evolve.
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All the Nations that wanted our technology and our wealth will want globalisation.  The only people in the US that actually gain from globalisation are the rich folks that have corporations in another country.\n\nEverything we need is here.\nEverything that the world need in here.\n\nWill you share your house with any stranger just because your rich neighbor said it is o.k.?\n\n\nBut once the US is at the bottom of the food chain even the US rich folks will be kick out of India or China like dogs.  When that happen our rich folks will parade us with US flags on all the Wal-Mart trucks again.
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Globalization is the predecessor to the one world government and the onset of martial law, that taken into consideration one could say the it could very well be the beginning of the decline in liberty.
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Countries who trade and do business with each other is the Global Market.  Politics, war, weather, trends, laws and many other things can affect the global marketplace.  Another term is Globalization.  This is the process of transforming a business accross borders.
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Globalisation needs a world without borders
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Here in Bangladesh we think life is beautiful. We'll fight any attempt by anyone to rob us of our freedom and way of life in the name of globalization. We want to be beatiful us and be a part of the beautiful mosaic of cultures called "world".
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Your question is to confusing. Are you talking about how the the military helps in globalization?\n\n2 points for me
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Absolutely an opportunity. Everyone gains from free trade (theory of comparative advantage) this has been emperically proven to be the case for previously developing nations such as South Korea. If anyone can provide a legitimate economically sound reason why globalization would be bad for a developing nation I would be very surprised.
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you are right. They want to define globalization according to their comfort. If they go to developing countries, it is globalization and open market. But if someone from the developing countries is coming to buy their companies, they will forget the alphabets of "free trade" and start protecting.
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Here are a few resources to get you started:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization\nhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/\nhttp://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/index.htm\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,,823274,00.html\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,,823097,00.html\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,,823296,00.html\nhttp://globalisationguide.org/
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Globalization began with the Achaemenid dynasty in ancient Persia.\n\nAt its height, there were 70 million people in the empire, they affected all world trade and the Abrahamic and Dharmic religions.  \n\nThis is where economic, military and religious linkages begin to occur.\n\nFor a later starting point, try the conquest of the Americas, when Aztec and Inkan gold fund the expansion of several Western Asian maritime powers (Europe in common speak).\n\nWorld War 1, or the European Civil War as it should be known, opened up the possibilities that horrors and more horrors were to come.\n\nThe present phase of globalization, known as neoliberalism, began in the US with the defeat of Barry Goldwater, was exported to Chile in 1973 (by force), drew momentum from the oil and fiscal crises of the 1970's, the Latin American debt crises of the 1980's and the fall of the wall in the 1990's.
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Globalisation, in my opinion, started several centuries ago. The way Budhism spread from India to the far east is a case in point. The building of temples and social and economic thinking, to the East from India is a classical case of globalisation.\nHowever, the concept took a new meaning with the discovery of the New World in the 15th/16th Century. The engine to the discovery was to bring spices, gold and other precious commodities to Europe. Some form of Economic Imperialism.\nIn the 1970's, the US and Europe, went on the globalisatin spree, as we know it now. This was particulaly the case with the large multinationals, who saw tremedous opportunities in the low cost economies, and the large markets, which would give them further opprtnities to grow.\nHowever, I believe, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg for economic globalsation, as I see further opportunties with the process.
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The reality is that globalization is a positive for all players involved.  Right now, the rich countries are enjoying all the benefits without taking any of the risks and globablization does not benefit every single person anyway.  The concept is that if country A can make everything cheaper than country B, both countries can benefit by letting each do what it does best.  A may pay more to B for some things than they could make it themselves for, but A will make more money by selling other products to B.  B makes money, both by selling its goods and by purchasing A's products.  The down side is that each country must focus on its specialty and re-deploy resources from industries where it doesn't have a significant advantage.  That means that you really shouldn't be making clothes or growing wheat in N. America or Europe.  That is something that can be done better in S. America and Africa, freeing up American and European capital and labor to focus on industries where it has an overwhelming advantage.  But if you are a farmer or work in a clothing factory, you probably see if differently.
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What Is Price Volatility?\n \n\nThe term “price volatility” is used to describe price fluctuations of a commodity. Volatility is measured by the day-to-day percentage difference in the price of the commodity. The degree of variation, not the level of prices, defines a volatile market. Since price is a function of supply and demand, it follows that volatility is a result of the underlying supply and demand characteristics of the market. Therefore, high levels of volatility reflect extraordinary characteristics of supply and/or demand\n\nGlobalization\n\nThe International Monetary Fund defines globalization as “the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross-border transactions in goods and services, free international capital flows, and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology”. Meanwhile, The International Forum on Globalization defines it as “the present worldwide drive toward a globalized economic system dominated by supranational corporate trade and banking institutions that are not accountable to democratic processes or national governments.
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I do not think globalization has a goal or an objective per se it is just something that happens naturally. It is part of history unfolding. \n\nThere is no one person or organization or institution that is behind globalization and therefore we cannot say that globalization has a conscious focus or has a goal or objective that is predetermined or established by someone. It is just an inevitable mega political trend that countries and individuals and organizations have to try to understand and leverage to their own advantage.\n\nYou might have an easier time finding out about the business goals of a company that wants to go global. :-)
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Because people still hold on to their national identities. There is also a large diffrence between upper and lower classes in their level of globalization in almost any nation. Is this an essay question?
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Globalization isn't helping the poor.  It is being built on their backs.