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"What is known in scholarly and political circles as 'globalization' is widely recognized as the wave carrying the world into the next epoch. The sociological weight of academic and political opinion lies with the conviction that globalization is either the solution to endemic problems of economic, political and cultural underdevelopment or at least inevitable. Those holding the latter opinion, the less optimistic, are less sanguine about the prospects for globalization as a panacea for a multitude of social ills, but nonetheless see no realistic alternative in the face of economic, political and cultural processes of such overwhelming force. The latter perception only heightens the tendency to accept globalization as a given and proceed to examine how a given nation can best take advantage of the opportunities it provides. The proponents of globalization have the upper hand in political, economic and cultural spheres, despite the fact that globalization clearly threatens national sovereignty, undermines traditional methods of economic regulation on behalf of the common good, and renders political authority weaker in the face of unprecedented accumulations of private power." (author's abstract)