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In conclusion, it is clear that the New World countries are currently positioned better to capitalize on the opportunities created through industry globalization and other current driving forces.
This article will argue that the debate about what to do about globalization is still very much a debate about what globalization is.
Globalization isn’t merely another word for Americanization — and the recent expansion of the Indian entertainment industry proves it.
Second, because the processes of globalization affect various states (and their relative capaci ties) differentially, globalization affects the balance of power between states.
Globalization thus reinforces already existing patterns of domination, while globalization indicates trends to dispersal and conflict on neo-traditional grounds.
Accordingly, globalization should be promoted.
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01 Jan 1997-European Review
94 Citations
This paper argues that we do not and that the concept of globalization is often used in inappropriate ways.
The process of globalization undoubtedly has far-reaching linguistic consequences, but these, I claim, have less to do with the spread of
The contrast between the glossy globalization and the existing globalization or the real globalization is striking.
Through a diagnosis of five reoccurring ambiguities within the globalization literature, I argue that the concept of globalization lacks an empirical referent.
Dissecting the mechanisms through which globalization affects ethnocentrism, this study makes an important contribution to the literature of globalization.
The article argues that twenty-first century globalization is markedly different from twentieth century globalization and reviews the major changes.
Thus, we do not argue for a post-mortem on globalization theory, but maintain that a deeper understanding of globalization as a ‘way of being in the world’ would require a phenomenologically inclined repositioning of the concept.
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R Pugh, Nick Gould 
28 Citations
It argues that writers about globalization and social work have so far accepted an unprolematized and undifferentiated construction of the theory of globalization which does not engage with the significant differences that exist between different accounts of globalization.

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