The United States and the Benefits of Globalization

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Globalization is a concept with a variety of meanings making it quite confusing. The concept includes a wide variety of events as well as aspects of personal and social life. However, some scholars have attempted to offer some definitions of this concept: It has been defined as the increasing unification in the economic order of the world via the reduction of barriers to free international trade like tariffs, import quotas, and export fees. Globalization describes the process in which regional economies, cultures, and societies have become integrated via transportation, communication, and trade (Croucher 10). It is closely associated with economic globalization, which is “the process by which markets and production in different countries are becoming increasingly interdependent due to the dynamics of trade in goods and services and flows of capital and technology” (Held 92). However, it is not only driven by economic factors, but also a combination of the economic factors with the technological, biological, political, and socio-cultural factors (Croucher 10).

Globalization has also been defined as a positive factor in the disintegration of various national boundaries in the favor of a shared culture and global economy, as well as worldwide political integration. It appears to be an unstoppable progression, and its likely consequences and impacts are the same across many nations. There are benefits to the less developed countries and cultures such as the chances of improving their economic conditions, sharing in the new global economy, as well as improving their citizenry political freedoms. Surprisingly, Thomas Friedman in his essay “Revolution is US” states that “for some people Americanizan-globalization feels more than ever...

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Held, David. A Globalizing World: Culture, Economics, Politics. New York: Routledge, 2000. Print.

Huntington, Samuel. “The Clash of Civilizations”. Foreign Affairs 72.3 (1993): 22-28. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 25 Oct. 2011.

Keleman, Daniel, and Eric Sibbitt.”The Globalization of American Law.” International Organization 58 (2004): 103-136. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 24 Oct. 2011.

Michener, Roger. Ed. Nationality, Patriotism, and Nationalism in Liberal Democratic Societies. St. Paul, MN: PWPA, 1993. Print.

Wenar, Leif. “One World: The Ethics of Globalization”. Ethics & International Affairs 17.2 (2007): 122. Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 25 Oct. 2011.

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