Globalization is a phenomena whose study requires a shift from two-dimensional euclidian space with its centers and peripheries and sharp boundaries, to a multidimensional global space with unbounded, often discontinuous and interpenetrating sub-spaces.
Globalization is a phenomena whereby the idea of distance is collapse and 'real space' has been lost to 'real time', or telepresence.
Globalization is a process that has shrunk the distance between elites, shifted key relations between producers and consumers, broken many links between labor and family life, obscured the lines between temporary locales and imaginary national attachments'.
Globalization is a set of processes generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power.
Globalization is a phenomenon better referred to as mondialisation since what is at issue is the changing definition not of the globe or the earth, but of 'the world'.
Globalization is a new type of universalism in history. A universal process of historical narration.
Globalization is a discourse pertaining to technologies, the market, tourism and information. Universality persist in values, human rights, universality freedoms, culture, and democracy.
Globalization is a tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization.