Controversies over globalization range from fundamentals what is globalization and how important is it? to downstream questions about the politics and direction of globalization. Disputes over fundamentals are intertwined with everyday globalization politics.
Is globalization multidimensional? A widespread but also rather vague understanding is that globalization refers to complex, multidimensional processes. Attempts are made to distinguish and combine different dimensions of and approaches to globalization (Robertson 1992), but usually this happens in too add-on a fashion (W'aters '1995)to meaningfully change the understanding of globalization. Economic, political, cultural, and social dynamics are not simply different facets of a single globalization; rather they are each prisms through which globalization takes shape and is experienced and mapped differently, yet they all min- gle and interpenetrate as well. Thus, as each of the social sciences holds a different perspective on ‘globalization, even a multidisciplinary approach to globalization still resembles eating soup with a fork