Globalization
Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide. Globalization has accelerated since the 18th century due to advances in transportation and communication technology. This increase in global interactions has caused a growth in international trade and the exchange of ideas and culture. Globalization is primarily an economic process of interaction and integration that is associated with social and cultural aspects. However, disputes and diplomacy are also large parts of the history of globalization, and of modern globalization. Economically, globalization involves goods, services, data, technology, and the economic …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with …
not the least of which was the increasing globalization of academe, itself a product of the Cold War’s …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
Founded over a century ago, the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is regarded as one of the most important institutional carriers of Canadian and American Mennonite identity. Generations of Mennonites and …
the Asia Research Institute’s Religion and Globalization Cluster led by Michael Feener. Both were masterful …
CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 English
to consider how a country whose recent decades of enormous economic success have been built on globalization and the norms and institutions of the liberal international order (or at least formal acknowledgment …
enormous economic success have been built on globalization and the norms and institutions of the liberal … prosperity are rooted partly in Western ideas of globalization and liberal internationalism, why would China …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 August 2024 English
Contemporary Vulnerabilities explores vulnerable moments in research committed to social change.
arriving in “the field,” since processes such as globalization and colonialism have put this very concept …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 21 August 2024 English
Detailing the current production, trade, and regulatory landscape to inform critical raw materials strategies of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS).
acceleration of globalization that followed. The Chinese government embraced globalization through new industrialization …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 13 August 2024 English
Canada’s social safety net is fraying. Why does it feel like everything is collapsing?Canada is at a crossroad. Neoliberalism has hollowed out and sold off the social services Canadians rely …
next, funding caps, wage freezes, free trade, globalization, privatization, tuition fee increases, and …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 French
Les catholiques en Nouvelle-France ont transmis et modifié, voire réinventé les modes d’expression associés à la Réforme catholique à la française. Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France explore la manière dont …
religieux », 255. 41 Clossey, Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions, 1, 3: « the preeminently …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …
colonization, militarism, imperialism, and globalization all contribute to a compelling yet hazardous …
CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 July 2024 English
In June 2022, then-Minister of National Defence Anita Anand announced an almost $40 billion plan described as North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization. However, on a closer reading, this …
adoption of the main structures which underpin globalization such as the International Monetary Fund, the … in that process and the connection between globalization and security. In all its activities the Institute …
CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 July 2024 English
All organizations, whether public or private sector, have an aggregate risk profile that can be measured between low to high. As the aggregate risk increases over time, eventually it will …
adoption of the main structures which underpin globalization such as the International Monetary Fund, the … in that process and the connection between globalization and security. In all its activities the Institute …
