interact. The role of a nation state, its political position, and its evolution are all questioned by globalisation. It alters the dynamics of identity, international relations and world affairs.
             According to Malcolm Walters, globalisation is a social process where the geographical restraints recede as the cultural values recede and society does not even realise they are receding. This basically means that the boundaries between the country are disappearing and everything is coming more interdependent and interconnected.
             The term 'globalisation' was first coined in the 1980s, but the concept stretches back decades, even centuries, if you count the trading empires built by Spain, Portugal, Britain, and Holland. Some would say the world was as globalised 100 years ago as it is today, with international trade and migration. But the 1930s depression put paid to that. Nation states drew back into their shell on realising that international markets could deliver untold misery in the form of poverty and unemployment. The resolve of Western states to build and strengthen international ties in the aftermath of World War II laid the groundwork for today's globalisation. It has brought fusing of individual national markets. With the fall of protectionist barriers this has meant free movement of capital and has paved the way for companies to set up several bases around the world. The rise of the internet and recent advances in telecommunications has only fuelled the fire which is now blazing. George Ritzer is a sociologist who studied globalisation but he preferred to call it 'McDonaldisation' or 'Westernisation' as he believed it was the spread of western and American culture across the globe, not about cultures from all societies. So globalisation to Ritzer is not immediately about western cultures, not equal spread of values.
             Globalisation is a very important factor in modern society. Some sociologists such as Anthony Giddens, belie...