Description
‘Globalization’ has turn out to be one of the crucial defining buzzwords of our time – a term that describes various accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are impulsively altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic. This Very Short Introduction has been fully up to date for a fourth edition, to include up to date developments in global politics, the global economy, and environmental issues.
Presenting globalization as a multifaceted process encompassing global, regional, and local aspects of social life, Manfred B. Steger looks at its causes and effects, examines whether this can be a new phenomenon, and explores the question of whether, in the long run, globalization is a good or a bad thing. In this fourth edition Steger discusses one of the crucial key features of up to date years, such as the EU fiscal crisis, the rise of robot technology and new war technology with civilian usage such as drones, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and new identity discussions around gender fluidity and sex change in the media.
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