GLOBALISATION

In its literal sense is the process or transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones. This term was used for the first time in the 1920`s but it wasn`t that use in the practice until the 1940`s.

There are 3 debates on globalisation:

- Globalist: Social relations, increase of global interconnection
- Internationalist: Significant role for nation states, skepticism about globalisation (myth and exaggerated)
- Transformationalist: Nation states remain militarily, economically and politically powerful. Indirect exercise of power through complex set of interactions

As international negotiators we always analyze the positive aspects of globalisation, and it is important to know that it has a negative counterpart that is equally important to study as the opportunities that might emerge from this inevitable phenomena.

Negative aspect of corporate-led globalisation: Cultural imperialism, concentration of political and economic power, diminution of national identities and sovereignties, growing inequalities, concentration of ownership and organized crime networks among others.

Which are the main characteristics of the emerging powers in globalisation?

"They can be countries or regions, social scapes and flows, economic networks or global cities. They emerge after several decades of global flexible capitalism and the rise of regional networks and city-states. In order to meet contemporary challenges, emerging powers need the experience of coherence of older homogeneities as well as the complexities of extended, differentiated societies and social structures."

Emerging powers as fact and metaphor: Some European ideas
Hermann Schwengel. Futures. Kidlington: Oct 2008. Vol. 40, Iss. 8; pg. 767