GLOBALIZATION AS A POLICY OF HEGEMONY

Abstract

The concept of globalization often implies integrative and affirmative processes of networking and linking states with the aim of creating a larger international scope of production and trade, the exchange and flow of capital, goods, people, and services. However, alongside this, globalization can also represent a political platform for achieving particular interests of certain or a small number of states, peoples, nations, and multinational corporations, leading to unequal economic and political development among states, as well as to policies of hegemony and imperialism. This paper will discuss the values and ideas of globalization, its consequences, as well as forms of its manifestation.