ABSTRACT
Globalization refers to the more or less one-dimensional social, cultural, and economic processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society, a global society. The assertion of the global and globalizing impact of information and knowledge highlights the relationship of knowledge politics and globalization. A difference that advances an analysis of the relation between globalization and knowledge politics is the distinction in the intended function of the governance of knowledge. In discussions of the enabling forces that drive globalization and the politics of the globalization of national economic systems, the least controversial are the globalization of financial markets or transactions; and the internationalization of production. One might expect that the force of the economic globalization process, the extent to which corporations produce globally, must be accompanied by a rapid global diffusion of knowledge and production technologies.
