ABSTRACT
More precisely, globalization refers to change, to powerful transformative processes influencing social organizations and individual lives across the planet Earth. Change-inducing globalization processes include flows of trade, investment, political ideologies, terror, genes, literary and artistic tastes, music, cinema, jokes, bacteria and viruses, oceanic and atmospheric pollution, sea-level rise, and other malign and benign artifacts and events. For better and for worse, these processes have reduced distance and time for conflict and cooperation opportunities between countries, governments and smaller social units like families, sports teams, churches and political parties.
