Chapter Three - The Confounding Diversity of Globalisation

Summary

As I have suggested, there is a link between populism and the growing distrust of national and international institutions. But the distrust is wider and relates to the post-Second World War economic trajectory and its cultural and societal effects, including a general weakening of various forms of authority, often described as “globalisation”.¹⁴³ Of course, globalisation is a compendious term and can be invoked to encompass diverse – and even contradictory – phenomena. In what follows, I will focus on the social and cultural effects of the globalisation of trade in goods and services, and the flow of capital.