8 sentences with “globalisation”

For better and for worse, the West was also the point of origin of true globalisation (beginning with Europe's contact with the Americas, as noted above).

The processes of transnationalisation and globalisation present modern societies with problems for the application of the traditional notion of sovereignty.

This shift - from seeing the Bible as the source of all received wisdom to relying on observation or empiricism - is one of the main results of the era of early globalisation.

The increasing globalisation of the world economy is causing a reordering of social groups within each country and a series of organisational changes and alterations in people's expectations.

Just as the history of Spain's rise to power is linked to the Reconquista, so too the history of early globalisation is linked to the history of competing Christian groups in the Atlantic world.

This era of exploration and the subsequent creation of an Atlantic World marked the first phase of globalisation, in which previously isolated groups - Africans, Native Americans and Europeans - first came into contact with each other, sometimes with disastrous results.

The existence of an organisation such as the United Nations (UN) can be seen as a phenomenon of globalisation. Undoubtedly, it was an attempt to find an international legal framework and implied a more rational possibility to solve conflicts and to build international cooperation projects.

Fundamentalism and nationalism are powerful political and socio-cultural movements that have gained momentum in parallel with the process of globalisation. These movements challenge the links between nations, as they only intensify very primal ties established in relation to dogmas, usually linked to religion.