'Globalization is fundamentally a spatial phenomenon; it lies on a spectrum with the local and national at one end, and the supranational regional and global at the other.
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'Globalization is fundamentally a spatial phenomenon; it lies on a spectrum with the local and national at one end, and the supranational regional and global at the other. It is about the stretching of connections, relations and networks between human communities, an increase in the intensity of these, and a general speeding up of all these phenomena. ' Held and associates suggest that approaches to globalisation can be roughly divided into three broad categories: hyperglobalisers, sceptics and transformationalists which all recognise something fundamental is happening or has happened in the World Economy . For the hyperglobalisers, history and...
?é?º Dicken, P. 1999 ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ 'Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy'
?é?º Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Democracy: an Interview 11th March 2001: Interview with David Held, Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, by Montserrat Guibernau, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University.
?é?º Ohmae, K 1999 'The Borderless World', Collins, London
?é?º Hirst, P and Thompson 1996 ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ 'Globalisation in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance'; Polity Press, Cambridge
?é?º Johnson, R 2000: p.1025
?é?º Martin and Schumann, 1997
?é?º Weiss, 1997
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