Dictionary of Globalization

Globalization, as the author of this dictionary remarks in an illuminating introduction, is a word on every commentator's lips nowadays, but is very difficult to define satisfactorily, for it arises in so many different contexts: economic, sociological, political, cultural and environmental. He himself defines it in a broad sense as “the growing interconnectedness of all aspects of society”, while warning that not all the aspects listed above may actually be a single phenomenon. The anti‐globalization movement, on the other hand, appears to use the word in a narrower sense, to mean the effects of an increasingly global capitalist system operating...