ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a theoretical framework that can be used to develop and test hypotheses about the interrelations among these phenomena in a manner that will lead to the formulation of strategies to deal with the multiple challenges of globalization in the new millennium. Among the many types of specific interest or identity movements, environmental, labor and anti-poverty, women's, population, human rights, and democracy movements are especially relevant to globalization and democratization. The chapter examines the hypothesis that a country's past history of democracy is a major cause of democratic transition and consolidation, which emphasizes democracy as a causal force. It focuses the analysis of the consequences of democratization for globalization, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and social movements. The chapter highlights the strong political component in ethnopolitics, there is also an ethnic component, although it is not primordial or unchanging.
