GLOBALIZATION AND

GLOBALISM
What’s the difference?
• Globalism versus globalization? Many people would think the two terms refer to
the same phenomenon. However, there are important differences between the
two.

• Globalism, at its core, seeks to describe and explain nothing more than a world
which is characterized by networks of connections that span multi-continental
distances. It attempts to understand all the inter-connections of the modern
world — and to highlight patterns that underlie (and explain) them.

• Though globalism and globalization are two terms that have similar meanings at
a glance, they are two entirely different things. Globalization involves increasing
interconnection between people and regions throughout the world while
globalism is the ideology behind globalization.
WHAT IS GLOBALISM?

• Globalism is a broad term we can generally define as an

ideological commitment in favour of globalization. It’s a view
that considers globalization as entirely positive. Moreover, the
ideology of globalism is based on the belief that people,
information, and goods should be able to cross national borders
unrestricted. It places the interests of the entire globe above
the interests of individual nations. Globalism can also refer to a
socio-economic system that is dedicated to free trade and free
access to markets.
WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?

• We can simply define globalization as the spread of technology,

products, information, and jobs across nations. Globalization is a
multidimensional economic and social process that began in the
late 1970s. It involves a variety of interlinked economic, social,
communicational, political, and environmental phenomena.
Moreover, globalization is characterized by the interconnection
of local private and public markets in one global arena, with
respect to globally accepted rules and regulations.
• The phenomenon of globalization results in the advent of open markets,
reduction of traffic, the beginning of free trade economies through non-tariff
trade borders, and the development of infrastructure and transportation. In
addition, globalization leads to interaction among various populations, greater
exchange of values and ideas among various cultures and creates a trend
toward the development of single world culture. We can also describe
globalization as composed of internationalization and localization.

• Globalization has both positive and negative effects. It can affect the
economy, society, culture and politics of individual countries. Since
globalization creates free markets, it has a beneficial impact on large state
multinational corporations. But it can cause damage to small businesses and
local cultural identities. Furthermore, open market and open mobility of people
that are a result of globalization can cause uncontrollable migrations, which
create issues in the social as well as political stability in a local community.
THERE ARE FOUR DISTINCT
DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALISM:
ECONOMIC, MILITARY,
ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL.
• Economic globalism involves long-distance flows of goods, services and
capital and the information and perceptions that accompany market
exchange. These flows, in turn, organize other processes linked to them.
One example of economic globalization is low-wage production in Asia for
the United States and European markets. Economic flows, markets and
organization — as in multinational firms — all go together.
• Environmental globalism refers to the long-distance transport of materials
in the atmosphere or oceans or of biological substances such as pathogens
or genetic materials that affect human health and well-being. In contrast,
examples of environmental globalization include the accelerating depletion
of the stratospheric ozone layer as a result of ozone-depleting chemicals —
or the spread of the AIDS virus from central Africa around the world
beginning at the end of the 1970s.
• Military globalism refers to long-distance networks in which force, and the threat
or promise of force, are deployed. A well-known example of military globalism is
the “balance of terror” between the United States and the Soviet Union during
the Cold War — a strategic interdependence that was both acute and well-
recognized. What made this interdependence distinctive was not that it was
totally new — but that the scale and speed of the potential conflict arising from
interdependence were so enormous. Military globalization manifested itself in
recent times in the tragic events of September 11. Here, geographical distances
were shrunk as the lawless mountains of Afghanistan provided the launching pad
for attacks on New York and Washington — some 4,000 miles away.
• The fourth dimension is social and cultural globalism. It involves movements of
ideas, information, images and of people, who of course carry ideas and
information with them. Examples include the movement of religions — or the
diffusion of scientific knowledge. In the past, social globalism has often followed
military and economic globalism. However, in the current era, social and cultural
globalization is driven by the Internet, which reduces costs and globalizes
communications, making the flow of ideas increasingly independent of other
 Summarized Terminologies of the Differences Between Globalism and
Globalization

• Definition:
- Globalism is an ideology based on the belief that people, information, and
goods should be able to cross national borders unrestricted, while globalization is the
spread of technology, products, information, and jobs across nations.

• Nature:
- Globalization involves increasing interconnection between people and regions
throughout the world, while globalism is the ideological component of globalization.

• Conclusion:
- Despite of the confusion, the two are not similar in definition but they
collaborate in nature when it comes to economical aspects.
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