Globalization - A Very Short Introduction

Some Great Quotes of Academics of defining aspects of Globalisation.

Pg. 10 Towards A Definition 

Quotes.

'Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped be event occurring many miles away and vice versa.'

Anthony Giddens, Director of the London School of Economics

'The concept of globalization reflects the sense of an immense enlargement of world communication, as well as of the horizon of a world market, both of which seem for more tangible and immediate than in earlier stages of modernity.'

Fredric Jameson, Professor of Literature at Duke University

'Globalization may be thought of as a process (or set of Processes) which embodies a transformation in the the spatial organisation of social relations and transactions - assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact - generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power.'

David Held, Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics

'Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole.'

Roland Robertson, Professor of Sociology of the Univerisity of Pittsburgh

'Globalization compresses the time and space aspects of social relations.'

James Mittelman,Professor of International Relations at American University