globlizationWritten by fahad sattar
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Business people on different continents now engage in electronic commerce; television allows people situated anywhere to observe impact of terrible wars being waged far from comfort of their living rooms; academics make use of latest video conferencing equipment to organize seminars in which participants are located at disparate geographical locations; Internet allows people to communicate instantaneously with each other notwithstanding vast geographical distances separating them. Territory in sense of a traditional sense of a geographically identifiable location no longer constitutes whole of "social space" in which human activity takes places. In this initial sense of term, globalization refers to spread of new forms of non-territorial social activity (Ruggie, 1993; Scholte, 2000). Second, recent theorists conceive of globalization as linked to growth of social interconnectedness across existing geographical and political boundaries. Globalization must also include reference to speed or velocity of social activity. Deterritorialization and interconnectedness initially seem chiefly spatial in nature. Yet it is easy to see how these spatial shifts are directly tied to acceleration of crucial forms of social activity. As we observed above in our discussion of conceptual forerunners to present-day debate on globalization, proliferation of high-speed transportation, communication, and information technologies constitutes most immediate source for blurring of geographical and territorial boundaries that prescient observers have diagnosed at least since mid-nineteenth century. The compression of space presupposes rapid-fire forms of technology; shifts in our experiences of territory depend on concomitant changes in temporality of human action. In political life, globalization takes a distinct form, though general trends towards deterritorialization, interconnectedness across borders, and acceleration of social activity are fundamental here as well.
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| | A SALUTE TO ALL VETERANSWritten by Irvin L. Rozier
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From our first Armies when soldiers fought for America's freedom, through today's conflicts, men and women have sacrificed (some even their very lives) so America could remain free....free to worship LORD our God, free to vote, so many freedoms taken for granted! This Veterans' Day, hug a veteran, tell a veteran thanks, and PRAY for all our active duty military throughout world. MAY GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERY VETERAN, THIS DAY, I PRAY. Irvin L. Rozier, CPT (Ret) US Army
author, preacher, retired military
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