Globalization and New World Order

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The term ‘Globalization’ refers to is the integration of economies, industries, markets, cultures and policy-making round the globe. It explains a progression by which both national and regional economies, societies, and cultures have become incorporated through the universal system of commerce, communication, migration and transportation. Globalization can be explained in economic and sociological contexts. Malcolm Waters, in his book– ‘Globalization’ writes that “Globalization is a social process in which the constraints of geography on economic, political, social and cultural arrangements recede, in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding and in which people act accordingly.” Whereas, Nobel laureate and economist Joseph Stiglitz in his book ‘Globalization and Its Discontents’ says that ”Globalization is the closer integration of the countries and peoples of the world ...brought about by the enormous reduction of costs of transportation and communication, and the breaking down of artificial barriers to the flows of goods, services, capital, knowledge, and people across borders." However, according to Jon Aart Scholte- an authority on the subject- globalization as a process is ‘deterritorialization’; i.e., under the conditions of the process of globalization, territories- geographical boundaries have transgressed and have become extraneous to human relations. For instance, employees of a call-centre in Noida can sell insurance schemes to a resident of New York. Malcolm Waters based on the different forms of human exchange proposed a ‘Globalization Theorem.’ The theorem states that-“Material exchanges localize; political exchanges internationalize; and symbolic exchanges globalize.” Material exchange refers... ... middle of paper ... ...stable economic, social, political and environmental policies, proper channels of communication and end of dominion of Core Countries is necessary. Globalization needs to be reformed in order to salvage it from becoming a dysfunctional ideology. Works Cited The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen, (Penguin, 2005) Key Ideas: Globalization, Malcolm Waters (Routledge,) 2001 Profit over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order, Noam Chomsky, (Seven Stories Press, 1998) Globalization, Jon Aart Scholte (Palgrave, 2005) Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (Random House, 2003) The Globalization of Poverty: Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, Michel Chossudovsky, (Penang: Third World Network, 1997) https://globalsociology.pbworks.com/w/page/14711303/What%20is%20Globalization http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/economic-history-1

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