Some historians date the ‘modern’ era of (Western) globalization with European colonial expansion and the Westphalia formation of nation states in the late seventeenth century. At base, it is driven by economic and political expansion, whether by trade or conquest. By such an account, globalization is not a new phenomenon rather, apart from small and geographically isolated settlements, this push, prod, and sharing against ‘borders’ has characterized much of the history of human societies. ![]() Lee (2002) further considers globalization to be effecting change in spatial, temporal, and cognitive dimensions: social activities increasingly transcend borders and occur more rapidly, as do peoples' understanding of global events and their place in the world. ![]() Broadly defined, globalization describes how nations, businesses, and people worldwide are becoming more connected and interdependent through increased economic integration and communication exchange, cultural diffusion, and travel. Globalization is a relatively new term, first appearing in the 1970s and quickly supplanting earlier concepts sharing roughly similar terrain (internationalization, postcolonialism, new international economic order).
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