Although the term globalization has acquired the status of a popular cliché, the concept itself is not new.
Its origins lie in the work of many nineteenth- and early twentieth-century intellectuals, from karl marx and sociologists such as saint-simon to students of geopolitics such as Mackinder, who recognized how modernity was integrating the world.
But it was not until the 1960s and early 1970s that the term ‘globalization’ acquired academic and wider currency.