ABSTRACT
In this book, I have defended the idea that there are many defi nitions of globalization, or perhaps more accurately, there are many globalizations. For example, globalization has been defi ned as:
the intensifi cation of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. 3
Another view sees globalization as:
a feature of late capitalism, or the condition of postmodernity, and, more important . . . the emergence of a world system driven in large part by a global capitalist economy. 4
Others see globalization as the transformation of time and space in which complex interactions and exchanges once impossible become everyday activities.5 Still others see globalization as an assault on traditional notions of society and the nation-state whereby the very nature of citizenship and social change is dramatically altered.6
