Globalization, enterprise and governance: what does a changing world mean for Canada?

ID:	HARP-439
Title:	Globalization, enterprise and governance: what does a changing world mean for Canada?
Source:	International Journal , v.53(1) Wint’97/98 pg 17-37
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Year:	1998
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Keywords:	Canada, democracy, economic, social, and cultural rights, globalization, human rights, civil and political rights, tolerance, security, self-determination, liberty
Abstract:	Globalization is an active and comprehensive process in which a critical range of activities — economic, social, and cultural — are transferred to the global scale. Because they contribute to insecurity and threaten democratization, the political implications of globalization, too often overlooked, are profound. Perhaps more than anything else, the striking speed of globalization has generated attention. To date, and quite understandably, the negative aspects of globalization have dominated the debate. But because the process is dialectic in nature, it also provides opportunities for creative response. This aspect of globalization has been lost in much of the contemporary commentary. Those with a limited tolerance for ambiguity or uncertainty, be forewarned. It is extremely difficult to assign precise cause and effect to the various impacts of globalization. In some cases it accelerates or exacerbates change already under way, and in others the causal relationship is ambivalent or unclear.
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