How to Understand Globalization

Globalization is often seen as a contested term. The discourse of globalization as a unique and a new term has emerged in western traditions (Sen 2002, 2). Positioning that globalization as a tradition born as the result of the western civilization will bring mystification to this phenomenon in the modern approach paradigm (Vasquez and Marquardt 2003, 34). In addition, globalization is a new phenomenon emerged later as the impact of western imperialism and the development of modern industrialization. This view was firmly opposed by post-colonial thinkers who stressed that globalization is not a new phenomenon (Sen 2002; Vasquez and Marquardt 2003, 4).