"It's all in the ebb and flow of globalization," said Jack Fritz, a senior officer at the National Academy of Engineering, an advisory body to the federal government.
"Their desire is to not only save themselves from globalization, but to reverse the natural flow of globalization altogether". Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went further, opening his speech Tuesday by announcing that Canada had finalized a major trade deal with 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Now, we're not ones to get involved in regional politics or climate change or the remorseless ebb and flow of globalization, so we'll just say if this year is to be judged so far on the merit of its music, then everything is going to be okay.
Many assume that in our current age of globalization the outcome will be far more positive, because of the modern-day flow of knowledge and capital across borders that this time globalization will do a better job of spreading wealth.
Now, because of globalization, because of global capital flows, you really have the emergence of this supranational plutocracy.
The benefits of globalization flow from trade.
As sociologist Saskia Sassen argues, a few major cities are key centers in processes of globalization, including flows of foreign labor.
In a process highly analogous to modern globalization, flows of wealth, weaponry, technology, and ideas ran from more developed Europe into its less developed periphery in increasing quantities and over a wider geographical area as the first millennium progressed.
It is not just Muslims who face challenging issues of self-identification. "Western societies in general and Europeans in particular are experiencing a very deep, multidimensional identity crisis" flowing from the double effects of globalization and supranationalism.
In the context of globalization, the flow of international students has been increasing dramatically over the years (Altbach and Knight 2007).
