Abstract
For about thirty years now national economies have evolved towards a world economy which has transformed relations between countries. When it first appeared, the word used to define the development of free trade was internationalization. This can be described as "a process of interactions which take place predominantly between nation-states" (Hirst and Thompson, 1999 cited on http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6035914/The-globalisation-debate-revisited-an.html). This phenomenon is now referred as to globalization, which is "a set of economic, social, technological, political and cultural structures and processes arising from the changing character of the production, consumption and trade of goods and assets that comprise the base of the international political economy" However, many people tend to generalize and only refer to the economic and financial aspects of globalization. We often hear that "we are now living in a globalised world? or even that "this is because of globalization?. However, if we take into account the other aspects of the definition (cultural, political, and social), can we say that we live in a globalized world, or in an internationalized one? More importantly, is it even possible to have a truly globalized world?
