Let me begin with a suggestion: That we view “globalization” as a process rather than as a political-economic condition that has recently come into being. To view it this way is not to presume that the process is constant; nor does it preclude saying that the process has, for example, entered into a radically new stage or worked itself out to a particular or even “final” state. But a process-based definition makes us concentrate on how globalization has occurred and is occurring.