”Globalisation today is only partly westernisation. Globalisation is becoming increasingly decentred – not under the control of any group of nations, still less of the large corporations. Its effects are felt as much in Western countries as elsewhere” (Anthony Giddens, Observer, April 11 1999)
• A social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and i which people come increasingly aware that they are receding”.
Malcolm Water: Globalization, 2001.