Giddens also talks about four highly interrelated globalization dimensions: nation states,
world military order, world economy and international division of labor (right panel, Fig. 2). The
world military order notwithstanding, we consider the nation-state system, the international
division of labor and the world economy, the latter expressed through transnational corporation
growth and outsourcing. The result is the CLD on Fig. 3, which extends the CLD on Fig. 1.
Broadening our thinking, at least from the point of view of sociology, Fig. 3 reflects the
individualistic perspective and thereby incorporates individual people’s quality of life aspects. It
shows the improvement of individual citizens’ sustainable quality of life as an overarching
progress objective.