Globalization Case

Globalization

In November 15, 2000, Thomas Friedman, twice the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, has been invited to talk about globalization and national strategies based on his book, “The Lexus and the Olive Tree.” Thomas Friedman is a summa cum laude graduate of the Brandei University and also has a master’s degree in Modern Middle East studies, master’s degree obtained at Oxford University.

Friedman is a New York Times’ foreign affairs columnist and has years of experience in national security and globalization writing. As such, he has a strong word to say about both of them. He started writing his column in January 1995, the exact when the Cold War had ended. In his opinion, globalization is a system that has come to replace the Cold War. Why does he think this? What are his arguments?

Globalization is not a trend, but an international system that came with its own rules, its own pressures, logic, and incentives. All these together form a mechanism that affects the companies, the countries, and the communities around the world. Friedman defines globalization as being the integration of telecommunications, markets, technology and finance; an ensemble is formed that enables people to reach around the world in a way that is cheaper, faster and further than ever. In this way, the world reaches into each of us deeper than ever. Friedman thinks that the best way to understand globalization is by comparing it with the Cold War. This might be just the influence of him starting to write the foreign affairs columns exactly when the Cold War had ended, but offering it a closer attention, the comparison is actually intelligent and makes things easier to understand.

The Cold War has always been characterized by a single word, and that is ‘’division’’. During the Cold War, the world was a divided place. Which is the similitude between this only feature of the Cold War and globalization? The explanation stands in the fact that globalization is another type of system that can be characterized by a single word, and that is integration. While the Cold World divided the world, globalization tried to integrate it, to make it one single huge piece.

Globalization came as a system that was trying to change what had happened during the Cold War. While the Cold War was based on weight, trying to build huge companies and huge communities that would protect a person inside their system. The slow are eaten by the fast in globalization, regardless of the fact that they are small. This is an enormous difference from what was happening in the Cold War, when the big ate the small regardless of their features and regardless of their speed. If you are trying to better understand globalization, then you should know that it is a system that has been built around three major balances of power. The first balance of power

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