ABSTRACT
‘Globalization’ has become a catchphrase in the 1990s. Most commentators accept that the world has ‘gone global’ in one way or another – that money, markets, firms, politics, people and cultures now transcend territorial boundaries, that the influences and problems of the world are becoming one, and that access to once remote parts of the world has become easier. Geographies seem to be shrinking, perhaps even disappearing.
