Quote Originally Posted by the tokai View Post
Globalization is actually about a lot more than just economics. It's also about cultural exchange, ecological exchange, migration and pretty much any other kind of large-scale exchange. Polish workers coming to Norway is globalization, but so is the silk road, or Arian invaders in India, or christian missionary's converting native Americans, or even syphilis.
That's the beauty of the subject, it's very broad so you can go a lot of ways when writing an essay like this.
That was precisely my thought in asking for input. Globalization is really a terrible term because it is both overbroad and too narrow. It encompasses too many phenomena, so it is too broad. The way most of us think about it is too focused on its present manifestations, so it's too narrow. I wanted to show my fellow attorneys-to-be that there's really a lot more to this stuff than we read about in the economist.

I've gotten some good suggestion here. Keep them coming. Source suggestions to accompany them would be insanely invaluable as well