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Article: Globalization and the new world order.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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THE process of globalization is the biggest change to the world order for 350 years. This article describes both the old world order and the new world order. The process of change is called 'globalization'. This means the erosion of national boundaries and the reduced significance of national governments. We are moving from a world with borders to one without.
The nation-state is the basic unit of old world order politics. This is sometimes called the Westphalian System, after the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. The treaty marked the effective end of the Catholic Church's legal and political domination of much of Western Europe. The Church had dominated European ...