ABSTRACT
Globalisation refers to a set of social processes that are thought to transform our present social condition into one which is global. Steger (2003, p. 7) argues that ‘since its earliest appearance in the 1960s, the term “globalisation” has been used in both popular and academic literature to describe a process and a system that make many of the currently existing borders and boundaries irrelevant’. This process is not neutral but a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural and political forces that is shaping the future of the planet (Shell, 2004). This also evokes a greater interdependence and global prosperity. Although globalisation is not a new phenomenon, it is mainly in the 1990s that it has accelerated under the pressure of technological advancement, and also the end of the cold war, which created a belief that the only viable developmental model was the Western economic and political one. This has unfortunately led to Western developed nations defining and dictating the basic processes, policies and content of the new globalised world.
