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While the US was hegemonic in the era of geopolitics, it is greatly weakened as globalization competes with, and gains ascendancy over, geopolitics.

— George Ritzer Globalization - A Basic Text (2010)

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Globalization can also be seen as flow of "nothing" (as opposed to "something"), involving the spread of non-places, non-things, non-people and non-services.

Globalization - A Basic Text (2010)

The system is run by the few with the few as the main beneficiaries. Most of the people in the world have no say in these systems and are either not helped or are adversely affected by them.

Globalization - A Basic Text (2010)

It is increasingly difficult to find examples of warfare that are unaffected by globalization.

Globalization - A Basic Text (2010)

Marx's insight of a century-and-a-half ago was not only highly prescient, but is far truer today than in Marx's day.

Globalization - A Basic Text (2010)

Free markets induce a natural collective reaction by society.

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