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- Title
THE GLOBALIZATION PARADOX.
- Authors
Gruenwald, Oskar
- Abstract
Globalization offers a comprehensive framework for addressing prospects for the peaceful evolution of people and societies in the Third Millennium. Global markets, trade and communications, along with science and technology, now drive social economic, and political development, modernization, and cultural change. Globalization thus holds great promise of extending economic prosperity throughout the world. Paradoxically, globalization can also deepen the divisions between rich and poor nations, contribute to the revolution of rising expectations in the Third World, and exacerbate frustrations caused by the accelerated pace of socio-economic and political development and cultural change. The contemporary resurgence of religion reflects the crisis of modernity--the loss of traditional anchoring of social cultural and ethical mores, self- and group identification and meaning. The key to a peaceful, democratic globalization is a successful modernization strategy which seeks to reconcile and conjoin the best elements of modernity and tradition, the individual and community, freedom and order, secularism and religion, democracy and authority.
- Subjects
GLOBALIZATION; THIRD millennium; SOCIOECONOMICS; ECONOMIC forecasting; DEVELOPING countries; POLITICAL development; SOCIAL change; DEMOCRACY; COMMUNICATION &; technology; RELIGION &; sociology; INTERNATIONAL trade
- Publication
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 1/2, p1
- ISSN
0890-0132
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5840/jis2008201/21