Globalisation. How might one define globalisation? Is globalisation a new phenomenon?

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,3, James Cook University, language: English, abstract: Every day we perceive an innumerable amount of information about incidents from all over the world. It seems that more and more even the most distant events have an influence on our life. One word, one concept is related to all of them: globalisation. Be it the globalised financial system, globalisation of terrorism since 9/11 or cultural globalisation. Everything is tried to be explained with that term. But what actually is globalisation? Where does it come from? Is it all in all something good or something bad? And can we influence it? In this essay, I want to examine the basic principles of globalisation and define the term according to these questions.