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What is globalisation? Why is there an intense debate about globalisation and its consequences?

  • UPSC 2021
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  • Globalisation

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Anthony Giddens defines globalisation as "the intensification of worldwide social relations" that bind distant localities, so that local happenings are shaped by events far away and vice versa (The Consequences of Modernity, 1990). The debate is intense because every element of that definition (its novelty, its drivers, its winners) is contested, and each answer carries…

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