Editorial

摘要

In the last 100 years or so, the world has seen different facets of globalisation and nationalistic tendencies. Before the First World War, the movement of people across the globe was easy as long as one could afford the travel cost. There were no passport or visa requirements. In a way, globalisation was in place without any explicit effort to usher it in. Between the First World War and Second World War, there was fierce nationalism. The nations or at least the ruling regimes of that time believed that prosperity and wealth could be assured by creating protective walls between nation states. But the Second World War changed that view.