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Standardisation and the Question of Identity: On The Dominant Discourses on Contemporary Iranian Art

This article deals with the discourse of cultural globalisation and related issues such as the global market and cultural industry, which emerged as recent seminal factors within the context of Iranian culture, art and artistic practice during the recent history of Iran. Moreover, it seeks to explore the inevitable issues drawn from the process of globalisation, namely the forces of standar...

Globalisation or self-inflicted wounds in the Fiji sugar and garment industries

Manipulation of Globalisation

Globalisation is a big but controversial issue: What are the major forces for globalisation? Will globalisation bring about more opportunities or more risks? Is globalisation an economic, technological, cultural, social or political issue? Different understanding of and different attitudes towards globalisation affect the process of globalisation differently. Meanwhile, the theories on globalis...

International Political Economy, the Globalisation Debate and the Analysis of Globalisation Discourse

This paper appraises the study of globalisation within International Political Economy (IPE). It also examines existing analysis, more specifically, on the ideational dimension of globalisation, generally situated within IPE but also found in other branches of political science. As a discipline, IPE is largely founded on the study of globalisation; intra-disciplinary disputes often coalesce con...

Globalisation and Cointegration among the States and Convergence across the Continents: A Panel Data Analysis

This paper attempts to examine the level of cointegration among various nations across continents with respect to their globalisation. An approach is also made to analyse the nature of interand intra-continental globalisation and its variation over time. The proximity and convergence over time, in terms of the growth of globalisation is examined by using a panel data set over a period from 1970...

The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different countries. The indices are composed of ...