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By friends and foes alike, globalization is hailed as a revolutionary, path-breaking, weltgesichte phenomenon. It solves the world’s economic problems or condemns more of the world’s people to poverty. It creates equality and cooperation or frightfully deepens inequality and hegemonic domination. It opens the way for world peace or it ushers in a new and nightmarish period of terrorism and war.
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© 2009 Jeffrey C. Alexander
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Alexander, J.C. (2009). ‘Globalization’ as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere. In: Globalization and Utopia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230233607_3
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