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A new, federally funded, international research center at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich will study globalization from an unusual angle. It will consider the complexities of worldwide networks of mutual dependency in terms of the dynamics of dis:connectivity .
On the surface, globalization promises more of everything - more speed, more efficiency, more internationalism - an inexorably increasing degree of networking and concentration. But this is an overly simplistic view, says Roland Wenzlhuemer, Professor of Modern and Contemporary history at LMU. Globalization also encompasses opposing forces and restraining factors, diversions, discontinuities, and loss or lack of connectivity. Moreover, any serious attempt to understand the complexity of globalization must take the dynamics of interconnection and its erosion into account, he adds. - And if proof of this thesis were needed, the current coronavirus crisis provides it. The rapid diffusion of the pan