CONTEMP WORLD

processes flowing in one direction act back on their source

• Interconnected flows

• Multi-directional flows

• Conflicting flows

• Reverse flows

all sorts of things flowing in every conceivable direction among many points in the world.

• Interconnected flows

• Multi-directional flows

• Conflicting flows

• Reverse flows

trans-planetary processes that conflict with one another.

• Interconnected flows

• Multi-directional flows

• Conflicting flows

• Reverse flows

Global flows that interconnect at various points at times.

• Interconnected flows

• Multi-directional flows

• Conflicting flows

• Reverse flows

Movement of people, things, information and places due to increasing porosity of global barriers and improving technology.

•Increasing ease of movement or hyper-mobility of people, things, information and places in the global age.

A world in which barriers exist and are erected to prevent free movement of all sorts of things

A trans-planetary process or set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multi- directional flows of people, objects, places and information as well as the structures they encounter and create that are barriers to, or expedite, those flows…

GLOBALIZATION
A ____ process or _____ involving increasing ___ and the growing multi- directional ____ of people, objects, places and information as well as the structures they encounter and create that are ____ to, or expedite, those flows…

In its simplest sense, _____ is a movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region.