In recent years, the term globalization has become a common topic of discussion in academic circles across the world. Amidst these discussions, many people are inclined to assert that globalization is a new phenomenon--the fruits of a postmodernist generation's labor of advancing technology in order to bridge gaps that were previously unavoidable. For essentially, by insinuating that the current generation has constructed the 'age of globalization,' scholars are able to validate that this generation has made a distinguishing contribution to society--a contribution that allows liberal ideologues to salivate at the possibility of a society that abolishes the nation-state in order to unify under the jurisdiction of a single, fair international order. In short, the potential cause-and-effect relationship between a generation's efforts to bring the world closer together and a world with common political and economic motives is quite appealing to proponents of supra-state involvement. In this sense,...
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