Transnationalism

Globalization in general refers to the current flows of capital, people, information and images and culture across national borders. Such flows of money, products and ideas across the previously far more impermeable national borders of the world have been given substantial impetus by such international trading agreements as NAFTA, or the North American Free Trade Agreement (a pact that was in many political and economic ways prompted by the founding of the larger and more economically powerful European Union).

It is most certainly true that at the beginning of the 21st century - as indeed it has been true for hundreds of years - that international trade plays an important part in the economy of most countries. As countries like the United States have become increasingly industrialized, foreign trade has become increasingly important to their economies. In fact, the United States is now in terms of both exports and imports the most important single trading country in terms of volume of goods traded and the value of those goods. One consequence of this is that

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