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Covering a wide range of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends, the term “globalization� has quickly become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. In popular discourse, globalization often functions as little more than a synonym for one or more of the following phenomena: the pursuit of classical liberal (or “free market�) policies in the world economy (“economic liberalization�), the growing dominance of western (or even American) forms of political, economic, and cultural life (“westernization� or “Americanization�), the proliferation of new information technologies (the “Internet Revolution�), as well as the notion that humanity stands at the threshold of realizing one single unified community in which major sources of social conflict have vanished (“global integration�). Fortunately, recent social theory has formulated a more precise concept of globalization than those typically offered by......

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