A community portal about Globalization with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Globalization, or globalisation is the increasing interdependence, integration and interaction among people and corporations in disparate...
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A community portal about Globalization with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Globalization, or globalisation is the increasing interdependence, integration and interaction among people and corporations in disparate locations around the world. It is an umbrella term which refers to a complex of economic, trade, social, technological, cultural and political interrelationships. The term has been used as early as 1944, however Theodore Levitt is usually credited with its first use in an economic context.
I have visited Zambia. It is a beautiful country, plagued with the multitude of issues that afflict peripheral countries since their decolonization and represents a good case of dependency. Lately, there have been many articles in the press regarding various problems that have emerged in Zambia and make it a perfect case study of global dynamics.
Zambia is the only country in the region that has not experienced a civil war since its independence in 1964 (before that, it was called Northern... Read Full Story
In an interview with the Guardian, Mary Kaldor outlines her views on human security in the global context. That is the subject of her latest book, Human Security (review forthcoming). Her view fit fairly well with the vision of global security outlined in Samantha Power’s latest book on Sergio Vieira de Mello (which I reviewed here). Mary Kaldor is current Professor of Global Governance and co-Director (with the indispensable David Held) of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the... Read Full Story
Via the BBC,
“Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has arrived in Europe to begin a new life, reports say, after protests by Muslim groups forced her into hiding in India. “She has landed safely somewhere in Europe,” a spokeswoman for the writers’ group, Pen, told the BBC, adding that her exact location could not be given. Ms Nasreen said earlier this week that her health had suffered as a result of spending time in hiding. She fled her native Bangladesh in 1994 when her book attracted death... Read Full Story
The recent acquisition of Budweiser by a Belgium Company has resulted in a lot of conversation about the virtue of drinking American beer and buying American products. In the local coverage of the issue, live from Bobby’s Idle Hour Lounge, Todd Milsap, son of country music legend Ronnie Milsap said, "I'm not hip with it. I drink Budweiser, and I don't do foreign beers. I won't even drive a foreign car." Last week Volkswagen announced they had chosen Chattanooga Tennessee as the site of their... Read Full Story
With globalization rapidly expanding it is on the mind of people around the world more than ever. Some of the main topics of globalization include topics such as, its effect on the social value system, the positive and negative effects on the concept of globalization and what it can contribute to the world. Also, what happens when a non-indigenous value structure is introduced, and how it can affect one’s identity. The effects of a globalized social value system have been in great debate... Read Full Story
