Dimensions of Globalization

^{In this volume of The Annals, the contributors explore their individual subjects within common understanding of the term "globalization ". There is agreement that the term refers to the consequences of two phenomena that, in combination, have resulted in what David Harvey calls the global "compression of time and space ". The first phenomenon is technological changes in the processing and dissemination of information related to finance and production. The second is the internati…}