‘Non-Global’ Globalization. New Features of Political Globalization

Political Limits to Globalization

We live in an unprecedented age of globalization, where technology, ideas, factors of production, and goods are increasingly mobile across national boundaries. The current wave of globalization is distinguished from previous ones in part because of the major role of information technology. Nevertheless, globalization is not irreversible. Openness to international trade, finance, and technology ...

Globalization and Corporate Political Unity

Globalization and Global Software Development

In this paper, the author discusses key elements that expedite the globalization, and how the globalization impacts the information systems development. In addition, this paper presents the motivations of global software development and issues associated global software development. Finally, some possible solutions for issues are provided.

Commentary: Globalization and Global Disinflation

why the trend toward disinflation over the past two decades is so widespread. The paper is, in fact, an interesting diagnostic exercise in the spirit of an Agatha Christie play—say “Murder on the Orient Express” (or, given the number of possibilities, “And Then There Were None”). In the play, many suspects hated the victim; here, who killed “inflation”? How? Most interestingly, how does this pl...

Globalization, Global Health, and Disaster

Although Globalization is not a new phenomenon, it has been accelerating in recent years. The world is now more than ever interconnected and interdependent with flows of goods, capital, people, and ideas. This process has had positive as well as negative health effects (1), has become an important health determinant, and has accounted for the emergence of new concepts of " global health " (2). ...