Globalization-Colonialism Linkage: Upsurge of Terrorism

Abstract

Globalization is the process which has many aspects, with different significance to different people in accordance with their ideology and perception. It has positive as well as negative sense. The process of globalization is a new form of colonialism, run in the economic interests of big business houses. Terrorism may be traced back to two fundamental, underlying motivations: the struggle for power and domination and act of desperation in response to this power struggle. The exodus of dreams and nightmares stand a unique relationship with the proliferation of terrorism.

Keywords: globalization, colonialism, hegemony, terrorism, anarchism