Globalization Process and its Challenges in Islamic Countries

Globalization is a process that has been continuously in progress for the last many centuries. However, its all-inclusiveness has developed rapidly during the last two decades of the twentieth century.It is something that a nation or an individual finds hard to ignore when the world is increasingly becoming a global village. The process has its roots in the capitalist as well as the imperialist expansions of the supreme powers. On the spatial dimension, it has affected the entire political framework on account of its far reaching spread from the states and countries beyond us to the Islamic countries all over the world. There is much talk about a new global paradigm in the Islamic countries. This is due to the fact that the rise of international economies and the outsoaring of different “chunks” of economic transactions have made it possible to manufacture, for example, in Mexico, to monitor in Chicago and to consume the end products in the markets of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and the rest of the Islamic world. The article investigates the Islamic countries' responses to changing domestic, regional, and international relations. It then questions whether the Islamic world should maintain an inactive position and accept the world as a global village or it needs to take an impregnable defense line against globalization and its processes. The researchers will make use of descriptive methodology based on the library resources for accomplishing their tasks. The article concludes that while the Islamic countries need to follow a policy of good will in their international relations, they should not go with the stream or obey the demands of globalization, unquestionably. In other words, the Islamic countries should benefit from globalization with a more positive intention for peace and try to minimize its negative consequences.

کلیدواژه ها:

Globalization ، Global village ، Islamic countries ، International relations ، Cultural studies ، Cultural imperialism