call for definitions...

    Dear World-System Networkers,
    I am currently writing my PhD dissertation. It will
be a critique of globalization narratives in a World-System perspective.
The title should be: Globalization. The construction and spread of an
historiographic myth.
    I would be grateful if anyone of you could provide
me his/her own definition of globalization as well as indicate me a reliable
source for other scholars' collected definitions.
    I also wonder if anybody knows of existing explicit,
"official" (i.e. operational), definitions of globalization by institutions
like IMF, WB, WTO, UN etc. In other words, what is to be meant by globalization
when globalization is cited in their official documents.
    Thank you in advance. Best regards,

Oreste Ventrone
Dipartimento di Sociologia
Università degli studi di Napoli "Federico II"