Free trade is a win-win situation for all trading partners involved and should not be interfered in because it allowed each country to specialize in the production of those commodities for which it had a comparative advantage.
Free trade is based on the idea that the state must refrain from 'interfering' with the economic activities of self-interested citizens and instead use its power to guarantee open economic exchange. (harvey brief history of neoliberalism).
A Global city is a city which tends to be more closely connected to each other than they are to many cities in their home countries.
The Global imaginary is people's growing consciousness of belonging to a global community which erupts with increasing destabilizes and unsettles the parameters of national and local communal existence.
Globality is a social condition characterized by tight global economic, political, cultural and environmental interconnections that makes borders and boundaries irrelevant.
Globalization is at its core about shifting forms of human contact. It is an unfolding set of social processes involving the weakening institution of nationality and the increasing globality of human contact.
Globalization is sometimes a process, sometimes a condition, a system, a force, and an age.
Globalization is the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across the world-time and world-space.
A Globalization sceptic is one who asserts that globalization is not a modern phenomenon and represents not much new at all.
Neoconservatism is a muscular liberalism, advocating on the one hand free markets, free trade, corporate power, and elite governance, and on the other, intrusive government action to regulate citizenry in the name of public security and traditional morality as well as expansive economic and military power, ostensibly for the purpose of promoting freedom, free markets, and democracy around the world.
