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Since the 1990s there has been a boom in writing about globalization. According to one sociologist (Waters 1995: 1), it is the concept of the 1990s, ‘a key idea by which we understand the transition of human society into the third millennium’. Globalization can be best described as a process of interaction and integration amongst the people, companies and governments of different nations. It also refers to a world in which societies, cultures, politics and economies have, in some sense, come closer together. According to Giddens (1990: 64), the concept globalization can be defined as ‘the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happening are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa’. The globalization process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems around the world, on economic development and on the human physical well being in societies around the globe. 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