It was the anti-globalization
movement that really put globalization on the map. As a word it has existed
since the 1960s, but the protests against this allegedly new process, which its
opponents condemn as a way of ordering people's lives, brought globalizations
out of the financial and academic worlds and into everyday current affairs
jargon.
But that scarcely brings us nearer
to what globalizations means. The phenomenon could be a great deal of different
things, or perhaps multiple manifestations of one prevailing trend. It has
become a buzzword that some will use to describe everything that is happening
in the world today.
