Globalization: The Twentieth And Twenty-First Century

Globalisation can be conceived as the growing interconnectedness of the world as a result of changes in the way humans organise their relationships and interact. Shared social networks of activity and power are created, expressed in economic, political, technological, environmental and cultural terms. In an interdependent world, changes and development within these complex relational arenas hold the potential to be felt across the globe.
Globalisation today is not a new phenomena. Conceptually, philosopher Peter Sloterdijk considers the origins of globalisation to be the intellectual construct of the world as a spherical form by Ancient Greek cosmologists. A practical realisation, however, took shape in the Renaissance Period through circumnavigation

The Twentieth and Twenty- First centuries present a rough, although not exact, demarcation of two stages of the globalisation process. For the purpose of the limited scope of this essay, I will outline a broad trend which I believe illustrates a difference between the centuries in question and is also pertinent to understanding globalisation 's future, which, more than ever before appears to reflect growing anti-globalisation

Parties such as UKIP, Dutch Party for Freedom and France 's National Front are gaining seats and support in national and European parliaments. They stand on mandates of mistrust of an interconnected world, represented for many in the form of the European Union. The results of the UK Brexit referendum is illustrative in this respect. The Leave vote clustered in working class areas such as the Midlands and northern England where towns have been hit hard by unemployment after the closure of traditional manufacturing industries as a result of market liberalisation. In the face of this, the European vision of a connected continent simply does not hold enough allure for increasing numbers of