This paper presents a simple model where microfounded dynamics of cultural identity are endogenous and interact with an international trade equilibrium. This process generates a strong home bias under autarky. We then show that goods market integration causes a phenomenon of cultural divergence, whereby the distributions of cultures become more dissimilar across countries and one of the culture...

this paper examines the political-economy and cultural dynamics and discourses underlying the emergence of the Palestinian Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front. Both movements emerged in the late 1980s as responses to continuing (neo) colonial conditions in their countries. I explore to what extent the various processes commonly referred to as “globalization,” both the world-wide econ...

The ultimate aim of this chapter is to suggest if not demonstrate, first, that much of the current received understanding of globalization is the product of a larger cosmological transformation of Western modernity and second, that this transformation can only be properly understood from a global systemic perspective. This latter perspective has significant implications for the way anthropology...

We analyze the dynamics toward cultural consensus in the Axelrod model on scale-free networks. By looking at the microscopic dynamics of the model, we are able to show how culture traits spread across different cultural features. We compare the diffusion at the level of cultural features to the growth of cultural consensus at the global level, finding important differences between these two pro...

One of the perspectives is to understand and place sustainable development within broader picture of globalization and paradigm shift. As long as we ‘neatly’ divide education, sustainable development and politics we can discuss them as separate ‘fields’ of work. Globalization is associated with processes, such as internationalization, international relationships, unification and diversity, loca...