Globalization is difficult to define. Globalization scholars regularly debate what is actually meant by the term.
World Health Organization
’s Definition:
“Globalization, or the increased interconnectedness and interdependence of people and countries, is generally understood to include two interrelated elements: the opening of borders to increasingly fast flows of goods, services, finance, people and ideas across international borders; and the changes in institutional and policy regimes at the international and national levels that facilitate or promote such flows.
It is recognized that globalization has both positive and negative impacts on development“
World Health Organization [homepage on the Internet]. Geneva, Switzerland: The
World Health Organization; c2006 [cited 2006 June 1]. Available from: http://www.who.int/trade/glossary/story043/en/index.html
Globalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Globalization describes the interplay across cultures of macro-social forces. These forces include religion, politics, and economics. Globalization can erode and universalize the characteristics of a local group. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.
The term globalization has been in increasing use since the mid 1980s and especially since the mid 1990s. In 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people and the dissemination of knowledge. Further, environmental challenges such as climate change, crossboundary water and air pollution, and over-fishing of the ocean are linked with globalization. Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, socio-cultural resources, and the natural environment.
DIMENSIONS
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Economic Dimension
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Political Dimension
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Cultural Dimension
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Ecological Dimension
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Ideological Dimension
Economic Dimension
Economic globalization refers to the intensification and stretching of economic interrelations around the globe.] It encompasses such things as the emergence of a new global economic order, the internationalization of trade and finance, the changing power of transnational corporations, and the enhanced role of international economic institutions.

Political Dimension
Political globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of political interrelations around the globe Aspects of political globalization include the modernnation state system and its changing place in today’s world, the role of global governance, and the direction of our global political systems.
Cultural Dimension
Cultural globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe. Culture is a very broad concept and has many facets, but in the discussion on globalization, Steger means it to refer to “the symbolic construction, articulation, and dissemi nation of meaning.” Topics under this heading include discussion about the development of a global culture, or lack thereof, the role of the media in shaping our identities and desires, and the globalization of languages.
Ecological Dimension
Ecological globalization refers to the global environmental issues. Topics of ecological globalization include population growth, access to food, worldwide reduction in biodiversity, the gap between rich and poor as well as between the global North and global South, human-induced climate change, and global environmental degradation.
Ideological Dimension
Globalization operates on “an ideological dimension filled with a range of norms, claims, beliefs, and narratives about the phenomenon itself. “ According to Steger, there are three main types of globalisms (ideologies):
 Market globalism seeks to endow ‘globalization’ with free-market norms and neoliberal meanings.
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Justice globalism constructs an alternative vision of globalization based on egalitarian ideals of global solidarity and distributive justice.
 Jihadist globalism struggles against market- and justice globalism as it seeks to mobilize the global Muslim community of believers in defense of Islamic values and beliefs that are thought to be under severe attack by the forces of secularism and consumerism.
OTHER THEMES IN GLOBALIZATION
International trade, Tax havens, Information systems, International tourism
Sociocultural Globalization: Internet, Population growth, Health, Sports
Global natural environment
Global workforce & Migration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization