Alston does not place great stress on the need to define globalization but we can elucidate some of his assumptions about the process from the questions he chooses to ask. Alston is not alone in this regard. You could read much of the political literature on the demise of the state in the new globalized world order without being aware that there was any such thing as international law. And, at the risk of slight exaggeration, you could read much of the economics literature on globalization without knowing there were any such things as either international politics 4 or international law.
Economic liberals hail globalization as an economic inevitability.
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