Under A Globalized World: What Should be Done?

Himawan Bayu Patriadi

Abstract


Globalization is an unstoppable phenomenon. It is hard to avoid it having the fact that under the existing open and interdependent world, no single country or even community can avoid it. As a consequence, indeed, under such circumstance any single actor is not free from any penetrating element of globalization. Normatively, this condition made countries and local community to be critically aware of any potential threat carried by globalization by identifying the features of globalization. However, sadly speaking, it is rare to be the case particularly in developing countries. Becasue globalization is an avoidable phenomenon it is arguably reasonable to say that any country or local community should be able to manipulate it for their sustainable existence, otherwise they become the loser which have no origin identities.

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