The Controversy Surrounding The Driving Forces Of Globalization

Globalization as a concept was developed in the 1600s as an effort to define the ever-growing connectivity of the world. The increase of interconnectedness throughout the globe merged from economic, political, and cultural activities which influenced debates between the community. These colliding concepts of activity bring attention to the outspread of new materials to the world. When the global market began shifting to a more integrated world, major debates were forged across the globe. Accordingly, these major debates surrounding the driving forces of globalization emerged from the arguments of skeptics and scholars have about expansion of factors such as homogenizing forces, the creation of intergovernmental associations, enculturation,

Tracing back to colonization of the New World, globalization began through the mass migration of people to the Western Hemisphere. The mass migration started with people moving from Europe to the Americas, which then transitioned after the new colonists began to need laborers to efficiently run the new land. As this need for hard labor arose in the Americas, European trading ports resorted to the transportation of African slaves that developed from the Columbian Exchange, which enhanced into the triangular trade system known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade. Moreover, the exchange hugely influenced the rise to globalization and was a center trading outlet through this displacement of native people that created an everlasting connection between the Americas and the nations of the Old World, and became the start of globalization for slaves. When viewing this rise of globalization, the European imperial powers had abetted the globalization of the slavery around the world as it created a strong commodity to the economy. With the increase of connectivity across international borders such as the slave trade, globalization is exchanged in short term “about growing worldwide interconnectivity”

The impact of globalization on the politics of the world “...raise(d) an important set of political issues pertaining to the principle of sovereignty, the growing impact of intergovernmental organizations, and the future prospects for regional and global governance, global migration flows, and environmental policies” (Steger, 62). This appearance of new organizations process through the works of multilateralism, where countries work together on governmental issues, and its contributing factor of global governance (Malek 3/6). Organizations that work nations together collectively includes the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The intergovernmental organizations worked together to create the Treaty of Westphalia and the Berlin Conference. When the Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years War, nations responded to assist the empire in sovereignty while the Berlin Conference met to divide the land of Africa, yet there were not natives of Africa present, so sometimes this political globalization does not reach all. Through agreements and limitations, these global institutions work together efficiently to view world borders and