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The advocates of capitalism and free trade see globalization as a positive progressive force generating employment and ultimately raising living standards throughout the world. The critics see it as a means of expropriating the resources of poor countries by drawing them into debt, encouraging the use of sweated labour, and accelerating environmental degradation. - From the Introduction by A.G. Hopkins

By highlighting the role played by non-Western countries it counters the conventional view of globalisation as the triumph of the West , and sheds valuable light on some of today's problems, not least the unresolved conflicts between ethnic, national and supra-national identity Sunday Telegraph

By highlighting the role played by non-Western countries it counters the conventional view of globalisation as ""the triumph of the West"", and sheds valuable light on some of today's problems, not least the unresolved conflicts between ethnic, national and supra-national identity * Sunday Telegraph *

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A. G. Hopkins is Smuts Professor of the History of the Commonwealth at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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