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Globalisation INTODUCTION: The item "globalisation" was used actually in the 1960s and early 1970s, but the concept of globalisation was can be traced back to nineteenth and early twentieth-century in many intellectuals, such as sociologist Saint-Simon and geopolitics MacKinder, who recognized how modernity was integrating the world (Held, McGrew, 2000). However, although there were many discussions about globalisation over the last two decades, it is still a problematic concept and hard to trap solely in economics paradigm. Giddens identified globalisation as "the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events many miles away and vice versa" (Giddens, 1990). Robertson pointed out that the globalisation is "the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole...both concrete global interdependence and consciousness of the global whole" (Robertson, 1992). Among other concepts, globalisation has been variously conceived...

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