Challenges, Jan Aart Scholte's definitions of globalization,
Journals, Abstracts, Bibliography, Syllabus, Books The
globalization process is seen as driven by the growth of
international capitalism and involving the transformation of the
culture and social structures of non-capitalist and pre-
industrial societies. Globalization is marked by the expansion
of the size and power of multinational corporations. A world-
wide process of the internationalization of communication,
trade, human resource and economic organization. The
globalization process in the economic sphere can be seen in
international trade agreements and the enormous increase in the
volume of international trade and growing economic
interdependency between countries. Most people today refer to
the time in which we live as the age of globalization. I prefer
the term interdependence, because it makes it clear that the
nature of the world today and our connections are far more than
economic, and because it makes it clear that the consequences of
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