His previous book about globalisation, in 2001, was about the fragility and reversibility of a process that many at the time believed to be inexorable.

他先前在2001年的一本关于全球化的书是探讨这一过程的脆弱和可逆性，当时很多人认为其进程是不可改变的。

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Globalisation is the process of increasing the economic and social connections between cultures over long distances, due mainly to communication technologies.

全球化是一个主要通过通讯科技，以增进不同文化间的经济与社会交往的过程。

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It is essential if we are to integrate fully with the process of globalisation.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, the collapse of trade and migration in the interwar years of the 20th century: all these either slowed the process of globalisation or stopped it in its tracks, albeit only temporarily.

ECONOMIST: Globalisation

Whether all this is evidence of the emergence of a European superpower, or just part of the broader process of globalisation, is questionable.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne