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Runaway World by Anthony Giddens

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to a remote region where she was to carry out her fieldwork. On her first day in the village, she was invited to attend an evenings entertainment at a local  home. What she expected was some sort of traditional pastime, but the entertainment turned out to be watching a video of the movie Basic Instinct (Giddens 24). At this point,  added Giddens, the movie had yet to reach many London theaters (24). As this suggests, the main thesis that Giddens presents in this small text is that, first of  all, globalization does exist, but also that it is increasing at an unprecedented rate. The fact that Giddens argues that globalization is a reality is not unusual. Many people  have proposed that globalization is taking place, that is, that the world in becoming increasing interdependent and connected in a fundamentally new way. In Runaway World, Giddens presents a well-documented  and analytic appraisal of globalization. Unlike some scholars who still argument that globalization is a manufactured concept, Giddens argues that globalization is a fact and is characterized by the increasing  effects of expanded global communication, and its accompanying increase in global financial transactions, and also by the reduced power associated with nation-states. Explaining this, Giddens quotes Daniel Bell, who  said, "the nation becomes not only too small to solve the big problems, but also too large to solve the small ones" (31). According to Giddens, globalization "pulls upwards" while  it also "pushes downwards," which means that the forces behind globalization create new regions of activity, as well as practical challenges, on both a large and small scale. Furthermore, Giddens  argues that it "squeezes sideways" to create new economic, political and cultural zones, which, in turn force nations to create, or reformulate, patterns of authority that cope with these new