April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
5h 15m
English
Globalization’s wave-like trend means that in order to understand its dynamics, it is crucial to be able to measure how the process of integration develops, peaks and declines (see Figure 1.2 in Chapter 1). The “quantification” of globalization, its extent and penetration make it possible to understand how the process itself develops.
Measurement is essential, first of all, to comprehend the effective diffusion of the integration processes in purely geographic terms. If the current globalization wave is undoubtedly made up of a number of “global planetary events” (for instance, the recent COVID-19 pandemic), the idea of a fully ...
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