European integration and European cooperation are already very high on the political agenda in most European countries. No matter what we think and feel about the EU, the European question is already deeply imbedded in our public life, in our media culture and in our everyday life. The strong emotional reactions for and against questions of European integration and culture and to the processes ...

Free trade agreements and the decrease of barriers to trade have facilitated international business in many parts of the world. Simultaneously, globalisation has been beneficial for many. For Sámi people, there have been two sides of globalisation; while globalisation has brought an increase in technology and consumer goods, there has also been an increased need for cash, pulling people from tr...

How to cite this article: Müller, R., 2011, ‘Christianity and globalisation: An alternative ethical response’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 67(3), Art. #963, 7 pages. doi:10.4102/hts.v67i3.963 This article critically evaluated the role of Christian Ethics in response to globalisation. It showed that ethical critiques of globalisation inevitably fall short when Christianity’s hist...

During recent years software globalisation has become an important part of the whole software industry. Adaptation of software to different market-areas is not an easy or straightforward task. The adaptation process usually involves two participants: a software developer and a localisation vendor. We interviewed Finnish software industry representatives in order to find out the current state of...

The paper aims to give an analysis of globalisation in terms of its theoretical perspectives, root causes and general policy implications. Following the presentation of some definitions and of the specific character of globalisation, the paper considers the role of the technological environment and of transnational companies in the process. It then analyses the main theoretical approaches or th...

Studies examining the relationship between globalisation and the welfare state tend to focus on the effects of economic dimensions of globalisation, the extent to which a country is part of the world market. Globalisation also has a social and political dimension and their effects on welfare states – in terms of social security transfers and generosity – are studied in this article. Data from t...

For present purposes globalisation can be thought of as a process of integration of goods and capital markets across the world in which barriers to international trade and foreign investment are reduced. Globalisation can be a result either of technological developments that reduce transport costs, improve information flows etc. or of policy changes that reduce protectionism, liberalise foreign...

The 20th Century witnessed the fastest globalisation of the world economy in the history of capitalism, most nations in the world are now linked in a combined world system but with polarised and unequal development and power. The increasing power and authority of the transnational capital with the help of state and super-state institution like WTO, IMF and World Bank is a main feature of this s...

This paper assesses the degree of financial and economic globalisation of British and German pharmaceutical companies during 1990 and 2001 and explores the changing balance between globalisation and national embeddedness. It tries to explain both the much lower degree of globalisation of German as compared to British companies in 1990, as well as their catching up at the beginning of the 21 cen...

Globalisation as a process of increasing internationalisation based on the dominance of finance capital is a material process. This article, however, focuses on globalisation as a discourse, distinguishing between discursive strategies as deliberate efforts of social actors and discursive structures as stabilized social orders unaffected by simplistic voluntarist attempts at change. Taking Braz...