The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the broad, interdisciplinary subject of globalization:
Globalization (or globalisation) – processes of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, socio-cultural resources, and the natural environment.
Global studies – interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary academic study of globalizing forces and trends. Global studies may include the investigation of one or more aspects of globalization, but tend to concentrate on how globalizing trends are redefining the relationships between states, organizations, societies, communities, and individuals, creating new challenges that cannot be solved by nations or markets alone. Study of the factors contributing to globalization may originate in many academic concentrations, such as political science, economics, sociology, and many others.
History of globalization – generally broken-down into three periods: Archaic, Proto-globalization, and Modern.
The Archaic period is defined as events and developments from the time of the earliest civilizations until roughly 1600.
The period of Proto-globalization roughly spans the years between 1600 and 1800. It was largely shaped in this era by the operations of colonialism.
The Modern period of globalization covers from the 19th century until the present time. Imperialism and industrialization have figured largely in shaping modern globalizing forces and trends.
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Since globalization is not an independent phenomenon but is highly interrelated with world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture, explanations of why globalization occurs and what the effects of globalization are or can be expected are related to theories ranging from economic development to revolutionary socialism.
Globalization terminology (category)
List of globalization-related indices
Corruption Perceptions Index
Democracy Index
Global economic indicators (category)
Freedom in the World
Global city
Globalization Index
International business development and the organization of business and trade worldwide are fundamental aspects of globalization and the development of globalizing systems.
Global business organization (category)
Corporate citizenship
Global sourcing
Cross-border leasing
Global strategy
Global R&D management
Intermodal freight transport
Low-cost country sourcing
Outsourcing
Supply chain management
Global supply-chain finance
Industrial ecology
International business
Standardization
International standards
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International trade
Free trade zones
Special Economic Zones
Multinational companies
Economic globalization – increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, services, technology, and capital. International economic activities and institutions that influence or characterize economic globalization include:
Economic globalization (category)
Free markets
International economics
Development economics
Economic integration
International finance
Global financial system
International monetary systems
World currency
North–South divide
Social economy
Trade globalization
World economy
Global economic indicators'(category)
All aspects of globalization are essentially sociocultural in nature. Here, aspects of the globalization of culture are detailed, including cultural diversity, cultural homogenization and its backlash, as well as multiculturalism, multilingualism, global civics, world governance and other political developments and social movements related to globalization.
Anti-globalization
Criticisms of globalization
Cultural globalization
Cultural appropriation
Cultural diversity
Cultural homogenization
Interculturalism
Multiculturalism
Time–space compression
Democratization of technology
Economic liberalism
Endangered languages
Global civics
Global elite
Global digital divide
Global health
Global inequality (category)
International inequality
Global politics
Global justice
International law
International human rights law
World democracy
World government
Consumer movement
Occupy movement
Supranational union
Transnationalism
Global village
Globalism
International development
International education
International organization
Internet
World Wide Web
Multilingualism
Pizza effect
Race to the bottom
Social web
Transformation of culture
Transnational cinema
Transnational organized crime
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Westernization
World Englishes
World Music Awards
World population
World Values Survey
Along with the globalization of business comes a new spatial division of labor, which occurs when production processes are no longer confined to national economies and labor becomes sourced from different parts of the globe. This global workforce has implications ranging from immigration policy to basic human and labor rights.
Workforce globalization (category)
New international division of labour
Brain drain
Reverse brain drain
Contingent workforce
Human migration
Expatriate
Foreign born
Immigration policy
Illegal immigration
Migrant worker
Visas
International labor standards
Global labor arbitrage
Global Labour University
Global Proficiency Certificate
Optional Practical Training
Global workforce
Labor rights
Offshoring
Precarious work
Visa policy by country (category)
The natural environment can be contrasted with the built environment, comprising the areas and components that are strongly influenced by humans. In the age of globalization, few absolutely natural environments remain. Human challenges to the natural environment, such as climate change, cross-boundary water and air pollution, over-fishing of the ocean, and the spread of invasive species require at least transnational and, often, global solutions.
Global natural environment (category)
Environmental treaties (category)
Biological globalization (category)
Natural environment
Global biodiversity
Invasive species
Columbian Exchange
Climate change
Global dimming
Global warming
Ozone depletion
Planetary boundaries
World ocean
Earth system science
Ecological economics
Ecological imperialism
Environmental social science
Human ecology
Global change
Global commons
Globalization and disease
Sustainability
Water scarcity
World energy consumption
World Environment Day
Processes of globalization present humankind with many issues that are considered problematic in at least one culture or society, and often multiple societies.
Global issues (category)
Climate justice
Economic inequality
Fair trade
Forced migration
Global dimming
Human overpopulation
Human trafficking
Illicit financial flows
Invasive species
Investor-state dispute settlement
Global digital divide
Global justice
Migrant sex work
North–South divide
Ozone depletion
Peace
Race to the bottom
Transnational organized crime
Water issues in developing countries
Water scarcity
World hunger and malnutrition
Westernization
Globalization by location (category)
Globalisation in India
Economic liberalisation in India
Globalization in China
Globalization and women in China
Middle East and globalization
Globalization-related organizations (category)
Global environmental organizations (category)
Global policy organizations (category)
Intergovernmental organizations
International nongovernmental organizations
Global trade and professional organizations (category)
Global workforce and labor organizations (category)
International medical and health organizations (category)
Social entrepreneurship (category)
Globalization-related lists (category)
Lists of environmental topics (category)
Lists of political parties by United Nations geoscheme (category)
2009 flu pandemic by country
International athletics championships and games
List of demonstrations against corporate globalization
List of epidemics
List of free trade agreements
List of global sustainability statistics
List of globalization-related indices
List of globalization-related journals
List of human rights articles by country
List of human rights organisations
List of intergovernmental organizations
List of international rankings
List of Occupy movement protest locations
Lists of ecoregions by country
Lists of endangered languages
The Superclass List
World economy – various embedded lists and indicators
Works about globalization (category)
Books about globalization (category)
Documentary films about globalization (category)
Serials about globalization (category)
List of globalization-related journals
Writers about globalization (category)
Category:Anti-globalization writers
Category:World system scholars
