Globalization In The 21St Century: Global Integration Or Imperialism

Abstract

Globalization as an ideological phase of human development has come to stay as a reality than fiction. Different parts of the world are f~1ced with one form of reality or another concerning the effect of the ideology. Many scholars emphasized the positive benefit of globalization while some others believe it has done more harm than being speculated. This paper attempt, if.-some definitions of the concept as a historical process and also attempted a brief of it development. It also examined the different debates concerning the effect to the worlds: the first world and the third or developing world and leaving a question to be answered by discerning minds. The use of theories is not left out to examine the possible positions.