ABSTRACT
A process of outreach across geographical space and national frontiers is nothing new in the history of mankind. Yet the current globalisation process is unprecedented in its spatial reach, in the velocity of interaction between people and institutions across space, in the scale of transactions, in the number of social and economic domains involved in the process, and in the number of people affected by it. It is also unprecedented in the fact that the globalisation process is accompanied by a process of fragmentation.
