The recent rise in the magnitude, intensity, and complexity of crime around the world threatens the safety of citizens everywhere and obstruct countries in their social, economic and cultural development. ... Thus, governments that are lacking in legitimacy and authority or are not fully in control of the territory under their jurisdiction provide perfect environments for the emergence of transnational criminal organizations. ... The key nodes in this global economic and financial system are cities that act as major facilitators of cross- border transactions and are connected by a variety of ...

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Globalization, as one of the important social concepts and terms, brings tremendous change in the domain of politics, economy and culture, which seems to be stealing identities from many countries and people as they become increasingly interconnected. ... It is a multifaceted social phenomenon rather than a singular condition. ... The creation of IGOS and INGOS, the changing structure of the form, scope and subject of international law, the emergence of regional organization and institutions all illuminate a shift from a purely state centric politics to a new and more complex, form of multilay...

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Thus, globalization represents a change in human organization and interconnection". ... Furthermore, James Piazza mentions how globalization has undermined the political left in the countries of the developed world when he states "the social democratic and socialist parties in the West have become increasingly conservative in economic issue areas such as the regulation of workplace practices, redistributive taxation, and expansion or maintenance of the welfare state". Moreover, as Herbert Kitschelt contends, "the changes that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s in the social, e...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mowforth and Munt, 1998: 12). ... The essay submits that tourism and globalization may be argued to be a deadly mix for indigenous peoples or host communities due to the negative impacts it has brought about such as commodification and erosion of culture, loss of cultural identity, social problems suc...

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This definition would be somewhat comparable to the one given in the book "Going Global" in which globalization is said to affect "every aspect of life - economic, political, social, cultural and environmental" (Moynagh and Worsley, 2008). ... Globalization and the introduction of westernized fast food chains in China has evidently affected aspects of China's economy, culture and social tendencies as we can see by these results, a clear shift in eating habits (Wang, 2015). ... According to the website 'China.org.cn': "the agricultural way of life, centred around rice, has had a...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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