Historical Development of Globalization 1

  • History and Development of Globalization is perceived in different ways:
    1. Hardwired: humans have a nature to globalize which started since the Ice Age
    2. Cycles: globalization evolves in a cyclical manner. Globalized features develops, erodes, then reborn.
    3. Phases: globalization happens in 8 different bursts for different reasons and in different forms since the agriculture revolution to the 21st century of East Asia emergence.
    4. Events: globalization evolves in a linear manner, developments happens due to certain historical events starting from the expansion of the Roman Empire.
  • Globalization Coined in second half of 20th century
  • 15th century: ‘Globe’ came from Latin
    • later defined the world as a sphere
  • Global circulated in 17th century and added the meaning of ‘world scale’ in 19th century
  • Globalize and Globalism appeared in 1940s
  • Globalization first used in 1959, in dictionary in 1961
    • Was not popular during the Cold War but did after
  • Globality circulated in the 1980s
  • It became popular in recent decades
    • got translated to many languages
    • ideas of globalization it appeared independently in different fields roughly at the same time (1980s) in Sociology, Business, International Relations, Economist, Geographers
    • Now its in education, main concern of global conferences

References

Footnotes

  1. GBTE-C01 Globalization Conceptualization, Origins, and History

  2. Chapter 1 Historical evolution, sources and barriers of globalization