Questioning The Stability of Globalization

In a world connected by the Internet of Things (IoT) and mass media, is globalization always positive?

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Time and time again, history repeats itself.

With the looming aftershocks of Brexit still spreading across the European region, and with the general sense of economic precariousness in the region, the question of a united political and monetary union arise once again. Not to mention there’s a few cultural crises leading to the degeneration of even the steadfast traditions of first world nations.

The Foundation of Geopolitics, held by some to be a seminal book in Russian political and military theory. Image Source

This time, it is coupled with a post-modern sense of political instability with the recent developments concerning the Trump presidency’s investigation and the allegations surrounding Russian-related interference with American democracy.

But as it turns out, this is instability that may not actually be new or surprising.

As the interconnectivity of the world is boosted through technological and communicative advents, the expansion of the service sector and globalization of societies and cultures are becoming more and more salient phenomena in contemporary sociological perspectives.