1. Globalization Processes
1.1. Economic
1.1.1. intensification and stretching of economic interrelations across the globe
1.1.2. Golden age of controlled capitalism
1.1.3. Transnational corporations
1.1.4. Free Trade
1.1.5. financial flow; foreign direct investments by multinational firms
1.2. Political
1.2.1. expansion and acceleration of political relations and interdependence across world-time and world-space
1.2.2. Borderless world
1.2.3. Global civil society
1.3. Cultural
1.3.1. intensification and expansion of cultural flows and interdependencies around the world
1.3.2. Technologies, culture and globalization
1.3.3. McDonaldization
1.3.4. McWorld
1.3.5. Islam vs. The West
1.3.6. Glocalization and Hybridization/Creolization
1.3.7. How culture and globalization affect the environment
2. Areas for Debate
2.1. Academe
2.1.1. analytical and theoretical
2.2. Public discourse
2.2.1. ideological or normative
3. Globaloney
3.1. existing accounts of globalization is incorrect, imprecise, or exaggerated
3.2. Global Critics
3.2.1. Rejectionists
3.2.1.1. dispute the usefulness of globalization as an analytical concept
3.2.2. Sceptics
3.2.2.1. emphasize the limited nature of current globalizing processes
3.2.2.2. often focus only on the economic dimension of globalization
3.2.2.3. modern globalization is not truly global at all because it is focused predominantly on Europe, East Asia and North America
3.2.3. Modifiers
3.2.3.1. dispute the novelty of globalization
3.2.3.2. world economy has been more 'globalized' in previous centuries than it is now
3.2.3.3. world-systems theory