GLOBALIZATION
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1436 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Human sciences |
A process of association among different systems formerly independent from each others.
Any globalization process implies the following conditions:
- the different systems must become in more or less permanent contact. Such a situation may occur for example when systems in expansion compete for the same resources of energy, matter or information .
- a new communication network should appear among the systems, according to the new interactions among them.
- some meta-regulations or meta-controls should become established, subordinating the different decisions systems to a set of general rules specific to the general needs of all the interconnecting systems.
Any globalization process leads to a deep internal reorganization of the systems integrated into the new whole .
Some former subsystems may disappear (a recent case is the replacement of the national currencies in the European Union by the Euro). Some former parts of the integrated systems may even recover some autonomy in specific matters. As written by the French politologist B.de JOUVENEL many years ago: “National powers are becoming too small to handle global issues and are too big to manage local ones” (1974).
Also D. BELL made similar comments.