Week 2: What the "Experts" say!

Week Two: What the “experts” Say.

Over the course of week two we have been provided with multiple definitions of the term “Globalization” , in this my second post whilst it might seem fairly boring I will critically analyze what the so called “experts” think.

The first definition I’ve chosen, comes from Albrow, (1990:45) it reads “globalization refers to all those processes by which the people of the world are incorporated into a single world society, global society.” When International Relations do-gooders get together and come up with concepts such as this, its no wonder Globalization students such as me struggle with the concept. When Albrow states, “incorporated into a global society” he must be having a laugh. There is no such thing as a “global society”, each individual nation when it comes to national interest all share only one interest, THEMSELVES.

Take the two safest Nations geographically speaking. They are Iceland in the Northern hemisphere, and New Zealand in the Southern. Both of these nations don’t have a serious enemy around the globe; both are more than likely to be attacked by penguins than neighboring states. However both have standing armies and are both joined to groups (Iceland NATO, New Zealand ANZUS), which in the event of an attack, will come to their aid. My observation of the term “globalization” isn’t a group of societies coming together, however more of a group economies coming together.

Reference:

Albrow 1990:45

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