Challenges of Globalization

<I>The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region</I> defines globalization as supra-national ideas and processes that cross national borders with impunity. Such ideas and processes may appear to possess a will of their own fostering closer links between cultures societies and economies. But do they? How do individuals communities and nation-states actually respond to the forces of globalization? This book explores globalization within the natural sciences social sciences humanities and education.