Populo - Volume 1, Issue 1

that succeeded in stopping a carbon tax in Washington State" (Raphaël D, 2020).

New international actors are coming into play through globalisation and

challenging the power of states even as they face global problems.

In conclusion, globalisation is a long and historical process that has

enabled the countries of the North to increase their economic, political and

cultural influence over the entire globe. Recently involved in this process, the

countries of the South see globalisation as a means of inserting themselves into

the world economic scene, thanks in particular to the transnational actors who

have strong economic and political power. However, the countries of the South

are lagging behind the countries of the North in the globalisation process and

although they hope to gain significant economic benefits from this process,

globalisation and its tools remain largely in the hands of the countries of the

North which continue to use them to their advantage. Thus, the process of

globalisation is inevitable for all countries of the world, but it has historically

been owned by the countries of the North in order to establish their global

economic dominance. Contemporary global issues, however, call for a

reconsideration of globalisation as an inevitable process, as its repercussions are

difficult to manage on a global scale and it continues to create inequalities

between the countries of the North and South.

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