Trends in the development of the modern world on the example of globalization Nika Chitadze Director of the Center for International Studies President of the George C. Marshall Alumni Union, Georgia – International and Security Research Center Professor of the International Black Sea University Introduction - Understanding the globalization Globalization - is one of the most discussed in recent year’s phenomena in the contemporary development of the world and at the same time, perhaps, the least strictly defined. The term itself entered in a broad scientific circulation in the 1990s, largely superseding the notion of "postmodernism," which was widely used to describe the complexity and diversity of the modern political world. At the same time, in the late 1980s, the word "globalization" has almost never met in the scientific vocabulary. American sociologist R. Robertson was one of the first to address the study of globalizati
