The Difference Between Globalism And Globalization

Globalism
“The world is becoming a smaller place.” The first time I heard that phrase growing up, I was sure the person was referring to the actual physical shrinking of our planet. As I grew older I was able to understand that this wasn’t a literal statement, but even then, it wasn’t until I was much older that I could begin to grasp the concept that this person was attempting to convey. The expansion of globalism in the past century has truly transformed the world truly into a much smaller place.
What does “globalization” mean and how is the concept important to our understanding of a shrinking world? In his book, Global Transformations, Professor David Held delves beyond the basic expansion of interconnectedness one thinks of when discussing

What was traditionally a sport where fielded teams were comprised of players of local or national origin, globalization had transformed soccer into something where, “Everywhere you look, it suddenly seemed, national borders and national identities had been swept into the dustbin of soccer history,” (Judge, 2). Globalization had allowed soccer teams to pick up the best players imported from around the world. As an avid soccer fan, Judge explains that he was able to benefit from globalization, as due to satellite television he was able to watch the “...best clubs ...complete... against one another on a near-weekly basis in transnational tournaments...” (Judge, 2). Here soccer shows how globalization has created a melting pot of cultures and allowed for the completions to move beyond regional games and into the global

The beginning of the 20th century saw a regional conflict expand into a global conflict for the first time in human history. The Great War, which became to be what we now aptly call World War I, demonstrated that warfare was no longer limited to a local or regional theatre, (Judge, 719). Following World War I, the global impact due to America’s Great Depression provided additional evidence of globalization of markets, (Judge, 772). By the end of the 1930s a great many of the countries of the world were preparing to once again show that warfare could take the global stage. World War II impacted every continent of the world with the exception of the practically uninhabited