Globalization can somehow be defined【C1】______harmonization, homogenization or integration of the countries and【C2】______. Functionally, it can be seen as a process of gradually【C3】______interaction and integration of economies and societies around the world. The growing economic interdependence is the most crucial【C4】______ force of globalization. In the first【C5】______, it is the economic dimension of globalization which 6 both scholars" and【C7】______ attention. Transnational corporations(TNCs) and large financial institutions in the mature and developed industrial economies【C8】______a proactive role【C9】______devising and creating global networks in economic and financial areas. However, sociologist, anthropologist and historian state that the non-economic dimension is【C10】______equally important. For example, Alexander the Great did not only militarily conquer Persia【C11】______introduced western【C12】______, philosophy and scientific technology【C13】______the east.【C14】______he noticed that what he thought the barbarian east had a more complex governing system even than his own. Today, though most popular definitions of globalization are still focusing more【C15】______the economic dimension; the non-economic dimension gets more and more attention in almost every society of the world. There are tons of studies【C16】______this topic. Yet, globalization as a phenomenon, in reality, is still in its【C17】______. According to Harvey, a well-known scholar, globalization is the manifestation of the changing experience of time and space, in which【C18】______economic and social processes has experientially【C19】______the globe, so that distance and time no longer appear【C20】______major constraints on the organization of human activities. Giddens, another scholar argues that "Globalization is the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa." 【C18】