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the expanding scale, growing magnitude, speeding up, and deepening impact of interregional flows and patterns of social interaction

the intensification of worldwide social relations which connects distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa

multi-dimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch, and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant

PERSPECTIVE

globalization as an inevitable social process that is certain to affect the different local communities. It highlights the primacy of the global economy that builds upon the integration of several national economies.

PERSPECTIVE

globalization as a myth rather than a significant event. The integration of national economies is nothing more than the usual occurrence among the similarly situated governments.

PERSPECTIVE

see themselves at the middle of the globalists and traditionalists. They see the concept as a process that introduces nothing but just a number of changes in different dimensions.

DRIVERS OF GLOBALIZATION

the most complex among the drivers of globalization in the past 19th and 20th centuries. Heywood (2011) emphasized the driver of political developments through the discussion of global politics that is typified by the emergence of new actors in the world stage, increased interdependence and interconnectedness among several states and the trends toward global governance.

DRIVERS

the process of globalization in different parts of the world. The discovery of aeroplanes, computers, telephone, satellites, internet, and other superior technologies intensified the process of diffusing knowledge or ideas to several countries, giving globalization a distinct personality in the everchanging world.

DRIVERS

intensified the process of globalization among the different countries in the modern world. Starting from a stat-centric economic transaction, the international community has witnessed the development in the way trade and cross-border activities were carried out in recent history.

EVOLUTION OF GLOBALIZATION

dates back as early as 10000 BCE to 3500 BCE and serves as the fundamental baseline in discussing the historical landscape of globalization. This period marked the long process of settling the different continents by the early human species. These early human species started from the southern part of Africa and were primarily hunters and gatherers who depended on their skills in surviving the difficult environment of the early times.