In the period of transition - after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of regime socialism and the collapse of the SFRY - our place and relevance on the map of today's globalized world can hardly be found even with a magnifying glass.
Globalization; a term of Anglo-Saxon origin that derives from the noun global (general, worldwide, planetary) and the verb globalize (to make something universal, worldwide, planetary). The etymology of the term points us to its school, 'unproblematic' definition: globalization is a set of economic, political and cultural processes of a general scale that result in increased planetary communication of goods, services, ideas, migrations of people... and the consequent perception of the world as one connected, interrelated whole. Political, sociological, and historical studies of globalization as a separate paradigm were established in the 1970s, but there is no consensus as to when, with which historical period, the beginnings of globalization date.
Did ancient Rome have the characteristics of a global empire within the framework of the world at that time? Are transoceanic voyages from the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries onwards and the colonial-conquering expeditions in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries the beginnings of 'real' globalization, or is it superfluous to talk about globalization in the modern sense of the word before the last decades of the XNUMXth century, the end of the 'cold war', neoliberalism and the internet era?
Many critically oriented analysts of globalization, for example the sociologist Ulrich Beck, will emphasize that globalization - regardless of the cultural and/or media effects of 'narrowing, compression in the perception of the world' - is nevertheless primarily an economic project of the capitalist 'center' which has never been amnestied by the classic matrix of power in the form of an imbalance between the more powerful and the less powerful, those in the 'centers' and those on the 'peripheries', those who globalize and those who are globalized, deprived of equal participation in those processes.
It is not difficult to see how the one-way circulation of corporate capital goods, ideas, expert services... is of a global character, while the same is not true for many people in the world, as recently witnessed by the so-called migrant crisis. The territory of the former Yugoslavia, including Croatia, in its time was more actively involved in the processes of globalization at the time and in them had an incomparably more important political and economic position than today, mostly thanks to the ingenious project and leadership position in the most global international movement of the second half of the 20th century. to the non-aligned movement (at the same time, we should also bear in mind critics who find elements of Yugoslav colonialist economic expansion towards parts of Africa and Asia in such a policy).
In the period of transition - after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of regime socialism and the collapse of the SFRY - our place and relevance on the map of today's globalized world can hardly be found even with a magnifying glass.
(portalnovosti.com)
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