The Globalization Debate. From “The great Voyages of Discovery” to Post Communism
The Globalization Debate. From “The great Voyages of Discovery” to Post Communism

Summary/Abstract: For the past decades, globalization has been a hot topic in the international discourse, identified both as a process and a phenomenon. Specialized literature hosts an ongoing debate related to the moment that can be identified as the beginning of what we call “globalization”. But is it possible to identify one single moment in history from when globalization started? In this paper we aim to present the different points of view argued by scientists, and use historical moments that mark the building of relations among states on a global scale, to explain how different parts of the world came to be interconnected at the unprecedented level they are today. Also, we intend to argue in which way the end of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe has influenced the spreading of global links among states.

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