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Is a process of globalisation unifying the world around common interests or is it dividing the world into winners and losers?
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Is a process of globalisation unifying the world around common interests or is it dividing the world into winners and losers? William Russell 400148053 Globalisation, simply put, refers to the process by which the world is said to be transformed into a single global system "such that events in one part of the world more and more have effects on peoples and societies far away." (Baylis & Smith 2001, p. 7) However, to use the phrase "simply put" when giving a definition of globalisation may be misleading as there is no simple or agreed definition of what constitutes globalisation, nor any consensus about how far the process has advanced. About all that can be said with confidence about globalisation is that it represents a major site of contestation. The contestation that this essay will focus on is neither whether globalisation in fact exists nor whether it is a new phenomenon. Rather,...
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