Early Stages of Globalization

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This paper explains how the term "globalization," if defined as a process that includes the spread of political, social, scientific, and religious thought, in addition to the spread of economic growth and modernization, can be applied to the transformational changes that took place in Southeast Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

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"Globalization is a term that came into popular to describe the increased movement of people, knowledge and ideas, and goods and money across national borders that has led to increased interconnectedness among the world's populations, economically, politically, socially and culturally. Although globalization is often thought of in economic terms (i.e., "the global marketplace"), this process has many social and political implications as well. Many in local communities associate globalization with modernization (i.e., the transformation of "traditional" societies into "Western" industrialized ones). At the global level, globalization is thought of in terms of the challenges it poses to the role of governments in international affairs and the global economy."

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