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November 2002 Alfie Stroud - 12 Gore Multinationalism & Globalisation Britain is widely regarded as a Postmodern society, and if this is the case must be subject to two of the central issues of this circumstance: those of first globalisation, then multinationalism. What is it that these concepts constitute that affects contemporary British society? The academic, David Held describes globalisation as "the increasing extent, intensity, velocity and impact of world-wide interconnectedness" - that is the growing extent to which societies, more local groupings and indeed individuals are interdependent, and can be affected by events well outside their immediate sphere of concern. Put simply, it is the decreasing importance of the nation state and its boundaries. It is as a result of this, most would say, that communities external to the nation state, and particularly other nation states, are able to have increasing influence over each other, in a process described as multinationalism. In...

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