Re: call for definitions...

I "second" Chris Chase-Dunn's citation. In that volume of the JWSR, Leslie
Sklair addresses the issue of "definitions." Also, you might want to see
Chapter 1, page 1, of Dicken's "Global Shift" (1992 edition) for a
frequently-cited definition of "globalization." A more recent edition of
the book is available, although I can't recall the pub. date.

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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Oreste Ventrone wrote:

>     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"
>