Globalization

Lionel Wee
National University of Singapore
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Globalization is often treated as a primarily economic phenomenon (Perrons 2004: 35–54; Wade 2001). It is, however, much more than that. Globalization needs to instead be recognized as a highly multidimensional set of processes, which include the social, political, technological, and cultural alongside the economic (Giddens 2002: 10; Kennedy 2001: 8).

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