Reflections on the Phenomenon of Globalization, from the Perspective of the Impact on Current Society
Reflections on the Phenomenon of Globalization, from the Perspective of the Impact on Current Society

Summary/Abstract: The beginning of the 21st century coincides with the beginning of a historical period of a new type, as complex as it is complicated, generating a reconfiguration of the entire global architecture. The new reality and the evolution of all societies are part of the process of globalization. Phenomenon, ideology, strategy, or a mix of them, globalization characterizes, in today's world, the intensified interactions between people and market integration activities, all with results that generate changes in political, economic, technological or cultural due to the disappearance of the classical barriers, drawn by state borders. At the time of this research, globalization is considered the main „architect” on the international security agenda, with a major impact on the evolution of international relations; on the one hand, it generates and accelerates the broad development of productive forces and involves scientific and technical progress worldwide, emphasizes contacts and interstate collaboration, entailing joint efforts to maintain and develop international security, and, on the other hand, it produces devastating effects in terms of security, by creating favorable conditions for the proliferation of asymmetric and unconventional threats and risks, such as the unprecedented manifestation of major forms of transnational organized crime (arms trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, drug trafficking, human trafficking, illegal migration), the virulent manifestation of the terrorist phenomenon in increasingly diverse areas, the resuscitation of chronic local and regional phenomena that are fueled by ethnic and religious extremism, the amplification of social unrest, border crises and tensions between nation states. Being a constantly evolving phenomenon, it is hard to anticipate the final result of this process. The only certainty is that globalization is becoming an essential factor in the international security equation, even in the context in where its impact on the evolution of relations between states is contradictory.

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