Globalizacja ‒ szansą czy zagrożeniem porządku międzynarodowego?

Abstract

Globalization, although recognized as a phenomenon of our times, still does have its history. Its beginnings go as far back as the geographical discoveries that gave a new – for those times – understanding of the world as a whole. The second stage of globalization is associated with the development of industry and trade in the 19th century, whereas the third one is connected with the invention of the computer, and – which resulted from it – of the Internet. The process of globalization includes the area of economics, politics, culture, and unfortunately, violence and crime. Globalization is connected with the process of modernization and de-traditionalization, homogenization and hybridization. These are negative phenomena threatening identity of nations. Christian ethics, in which the dignity of the human person is the supreme imperative, constitutes protection for the man, the family and the nation. John Paul II pointed to a practical solution of the globalization dilemmas: international solidarity, or global brotherhood.