Globalisation and Revival of Tradition-Dual Attack on Model of Democratic Nation Building

With the advent of globalisation, the changes taking place at the bottom tiers of nations have received tittle attention. Yet shifts in power relations, allegiances and consciousness at various levels of civil societies are changing the world as much, if not more, than the macro changes wrought by international capital technology and the mass media. To what extent will these new cultural assertions of identity enable the peoples of various regions to face the new capitalist order, remains to be seen.