What are the forces and consequences of globalization in the past, present and future?
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I’ve never studied Economics, so please forgive me if I write something stupid...\n1. What is the reason for globalisation? It’s the needs and the expansion of companies.\n2.  What can be the consequence? Strong interdependence and a lot more. We know from history that a best example what can happen was the Great Depression of the 1930s or the Oil Crisis in the 1970s. In the present news are all about this problem. If there were no duties, the poor areas (Africa, Asia, South America) could either rise or fall even deeper.\n\nThat’s all I can figure out on my own.\nHere’s a more professional aid:
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Definition: - "The tendency of investment funds and businesses to move beyond domestic and national markets to other markets around the globe, thereby increasing the interconnectedness of different markets."\n\nIt refers to the worldwide phenomenon of technological, economic, political and cultural exchanges, brought about by modern communication, transportation and legal infrastructure as well as the political choice to consciously open cross-border links in international trade and finance. It is a term used to describe how human beings are becoming more intertwined with each other around the world economically, politically, and culturally. Although these links are not new, they are more pervasive than ever before.\n\nThe economic aspects stressed in globalization are trade, investment and migration. The globalization of trade entails that human beings have greater access to a plethora of goods and services never seen before in human history. From German cars, to Colombian coffee, from Chinese clothing, to Egyptian cotton, from American music to Indian software, human beings may be able to purchase a wide range of goods and services. The globalization of investment takes place through Foreign Direct Investment, where multinational companies directly invest assets in a foreign country, or by indirect investment where individuals and institutions purchase and sell financial assets of other countries. Free migration allows individuals to find employment in jurisdictions where there are labor shortages.\n\nThe political aspects of globalization are evidenced when governments create international rules and institutions to deal with issues such as trade, human rights, and the environment. Among the new institutions and rules that have come to fruition as a result of globalization are the World Trade Organization, the Euro currency, the North American Free Trade Agreement, to name a few.\n\nCultural global ties also grow through globalization as news ideas and fashions through trade, travel and media move around the globe at lightning speed. Global brands such as Coca-Cola, Puma & Sony serve as common reference to consumers all over the World. An individual in China enjoys the same soft drink as an individual in Puerto Rico--at opposite ends of the globe. However, these ties may also cause strains: for example Western Ideas of freedom of expression may clash with Islamic views on Religious tolerance
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Countries who trade and do business with each other is the Global Market.  Politics, war, weather, trends, laws and many other things can affect the global marketplace.  Another term is Globalization.  This is the process of transforming a business accross borders.
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(http://www.answers.com/globalization )
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1. Globalisation. \n   \nNo longer can management think in the box. Focus is on the world much more than localities.\n\n2. Information Superhighway.\n\nThe World Wide Web has changed the way we market. Various options will need to be looked at before money is committed to any form of marketting.\n\n3. Delivery\n\nShipping used to be easy. With the world as your market, logistics have to be in place to meet these needs.\n\n4. International Laws\n\nThe boderless world however necessitates that we know and appreciate international laws which can affect us.\n\n5. Foreign Currency.\n\nHedging, Conversions, exchange rates etc all these are key to operating in the changing world .
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1 -Dwindling of natural resources\n2 - Globalization that are putting the weaker industry more at disadvantage\n3 - the unconrol possession of weapon of mass destruction, who were confine to 6 superpower before\n4 - the disatisfaction of Islam agains the West\n5 - the resurgence of nationalism and the challeng to Western power
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Globalization ... affects Globe (Philipines INCLUDED)\n\nPhilipinization ... affects ONLY Philipines (not rest of Globe)\n\nAmericanization ... affects only America (Not Philipines , Not Rest of Globe)
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Although very unlikely but if it happens it will be due to GLOBALIZATION and will be directed against its supporters and only after the system collapsed.
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We are living through the disadvantages right now, but in the long run, it's all wine and roses. To reverse a quote from Frederic Bastiat, the most excellent 19th century French economist, "Where trade crosses borders, armies soon won't", aiee, (isn't that cute?) globalization ultimately leads to world peace.
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I believe that globalization affects all, so in that regard I disagree with you. However, i believe that it is the rich people (haves) that are benefiting form the trend of globalization therefore marginalizing the poor (have nots). The reason for this belief lies in the fact the system of globalization is based on the fact the world is at different stages of development, what this means is that the disparity between the rich nations and the poor nations is so large that it is worth a Multi-National Corporations(MNCs) while to invest and "exploit" the population of a lesser developed national because they simply charge less for their labour. The rich people continue to have and get more while the poor people continue to rely on the rich (west) for handouts.
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There is little chance of true globalization any time soon, with the rapent xenophobia that is striking in so many nations, the borders being gaurded against the fear of terrorism and the hatred of anything "foreign" will shut out the utopic future of a united world.
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(m)\n\nOne of the demerits of the globalization, illegal immigration of poor people to the advanced countries, becomes a serious problem in the world. As the concepts of globalization spreads around the earth, there is a noticeable distinction between the rich and the poor especially in a backward nation. As a result of that, even illegally, the poor people decide to go to other country for their dreams.
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Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the globe but difficult to understand them. Hardt and Negri contend that they should be seen in line with our historical understanding of Empire as a universal order that accepts no boundaries or limits. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today's Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers. \n\nEmpire identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation, and people. Hardt and Negri link this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society--to new forms of racism, new conceptions of identity and difference, new networks of communication and control, and new paths of migration. They also show how the power of transnational corporations and the increasing predominance of postindustrial forms of labor and production help to define the new imperial global order. \n\nMore than analysis, Empire is also an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy, a new Communist Manifesto. Looking beyond the regimes of exploitation and control that characterize today's world order, it seeks an alternative political paradigm--the basis for a truly democratic global society. \n\ncc
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
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McDonaldization is a form of globalization.
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The reality is that globalization is a positive for all players involved.  Right now, the rich countries are enjoying all the benefits without taking any of the risks and globablization does not benefit every single person anyway.  The concept is that if country A can make everything cheaper than country B, both countries can benefit by letting each do what it does best.  A may pay more to B for some things than they could make it themselves for, but A will make more money by selling other products to B.  B makes money, both by selling its goods and by purchasing A's products.  The down side is that each country must focus on its specialty and re-deploy resources from industries where it doesn't have a significant advantage.  That means that you really shouldn't be making clothes or growing wheat in N. America or Europe.  That is something that can be done better in S. America and Africa, freeing up American and European capital and labor to focus on industries where it has an overwhelming advantage.  But if you are a farmer or work in a clothing factory, you probably see if differently.
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It has to do with Globalization.\n\nGlobalization is basically a free enterprise market between all participating nations. Think about it...\n\nIf you have a country that is in direct competition with another nation but your workers require wages that are far less than other nations, who has the advantage?\n\nSo yes they are the future.