Complete 14 page APA formatted essay: Similarities and Differences between Globalization in the Past and Contemporary, or Post-1945.For many, globalization has been a defining characteristic, or even

Complete 14 page APA formatted essay: Similarities and Differences between Globalization in the Past and Contemporary, or Post-1945.

For many, globalization has been a defining characteristic, or even the defining characteristic, of the post-war period. However, as we will see, it is not so easy to rope off globalization as an exclusively post-war, or even exclusively modern phenomenon. Furthermore, it has been a Eurocentric phenomenon, as reinforced by Marxist and Classical Liberal theories, with the Eastern peoples merely the passive objects in the story. For many scholars in recent centuries, the global narrative since Columbus reached the Americas in 1492 has been one of the steady growth of Western power and influence across the world, culminating in a Western dominance of a globalized economy after the Second World War. Such theories have also worked on the assumption that Europe, uniquely, always had the potential to take the lead on the global stage, and to develop further and faster than other regions, largely because of its native urge towards a Capitalist economy, and liberal institutions. We shall see that this is not only not the full picture, but that it is a deeply flawed and misleading picture. Globalization is not new, but Western dominance in globalizing processes is new.&nbsp.

While Eurocentric theories were once the norm in academic discourse, they have undergone serious challenges in recent decades. Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) shook historians’ complacency about the European boundaries of their work. He argued that the West justified its domination by portraying non-European societies as backward and exotic and that these visions of Asiatic societies are deeply woven into canonical European literature. It was not just Said who challenged Eurocentric norms. The latter also came under attack by those engaged in Subaltern studies in relation to the history of the Indian Subcontinent, and scholars of revisionism in Africa.&nbsp.