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  2. Hyper-globalization - Wikipedia

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    Hyper-globalization is the dramatic change in the size, scope, and velocity of globalization that began in the late 1990s and that continues into the beginning of the 21st century. It covers all three main dimensions of economic globalization , cultural globalization , and political globalization .

  3. S11 (protest) - Wikipedia

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    The protest was part of the anti-globalisation movement, and closely modeled after the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle (known as the battle for Seattle.) [8] This movement has been motivated by a number of concerns about globalization, including loss of national sovereignty, environmental impact, and the impact of foreign debt and multi-national ...

  4. Criticisms of globalization - Wikipedia

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    In the name of free markets and with the promise of an improved standard of living, local authorities give up some of their political and social powers to international organizations. [10] Thus, globalization causes the greater empowerment of these international organizations and the diminishing influence of local state institutions. [15] [16]

  5. Political trilemma of the world economy - Wikipedia

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    In the post-World War II period, states sacrificed globalization while embracing democracy at home and national autonomy. [7] The trilemma suggests that the backlash against globalization in the last few decades is rooted in a desire to reclaim democracy and national autonomy, even if it undermines economic integration. [7]

  6. Jihad vs. McWorld - Wikipedia

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    Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World is a 1995 book by American political scientist Benjamin Barber, in which he puts forth a theory that describes the struggle between "McWorld" (globalization and the corporate control of the political process) and "Jihad" (Arabic term for "struggle", here modified to mean tradition and traditional values, in the form of ...

  7. Political globalization - Wikipedia

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    Salvatore Babones discussing sources used by scholars for studying political globalization noted the usefulness of Europa World Year Book for data on diplomatic relationships between countries, publications of International Institute for Strategic Studies such as The Military Balance for matters of military, and US government publication Patterns of Global Terrorism for matters of terrorism.

  8. Unilateralism - Wikipedia

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    Examples include arbitrarily imposed economic sanctions such as the United States embargo against Cuba. [ citation needed ] Typically, governments may argue that their ultimate or middle-term goals are served by a strengthening of multilateral schemes and institutions, as was many times the case during the period of the Concert of Europe .

  9. Global cultural flows - Wikipedia

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    The concept of global cultural flows was introduced by anthropologist Arjun Appadurai in his essay "Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy" (1990), in which he argues that people ought to reconsider the Binary oppositions that were imposed through colonialism, such as those of ‘global’ vs. ‘local’, south vs. north, and metropolitan vs. non-metropolitan.