n Journal for Contemporary History - South African foreign trade policy and economic diplomacy in an era of globalisation

Abstract

Zwingle, quoted in Bertelsmann-Scott (2000:14), views globalisation as a reality, not a choice. Such a description of globalisation as an irreversible fact of life is an attempt to show that any critical analysis of this process should be made with a view that no state can escape the process of globalisation and its manifestations and equally so, no region can afford to be left behind.