The term "Globalization" which has changed the world to a smaller village, covers a wide range of political, economic and cultural trends. Globalization in popular discourse is often treated as the synonym for one or more of the following phenomena. The pursuit of classical liberal (or "free market") policies in the world economy ("economic liberalization"), the growing dominance of western and specially American forms of political, economic and cultural life ("Westernization" or "Americanization"), the proliferation of new information technologies (the "Internet Revolution"), as well as the notion that humanity stands at the threshold of realizing one single unified community in which major sources of social conflict have vanished ("global integration").

In general, a precise accepted concept of globalization in 21st century can be: Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology.

Or in other words Globalization is also defined as the name for the process of increasing the connectivity and interdependence of the world's markets and businesses. This process has speeded up dramatically in the last two decades as technological advances make it easier for people to travel, communicate, and do business internationally

This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world.
This current wave of globalization has been driven by policies that have opened economies domestically and internationally. In the years since the Second World War, and especially during the past two or three decades, many governments have adopted free-market economic systems, vastly increasing their own productive potential and creating myriad of new opportunities for international trade and investment.

Governments also have negotiated dramatic reductions in barriers to commerce and have established international agreements to promote trade in goods, services, and investment. Taking advantage of new opportunities in foreign markets, corporations have built foreign factories and established production and marketing arrangements with foreign partners. A defining feature of globalization, therefore, is an international industrial and financial business structure.

Technology has been the other principal driver of globalization. Advances in information technology, in particular, have dramatically transformed economic life. Information technologies have given all sorts of individual economic actors—consumers, investors, businesses—valuable new tools for identifying and pursuing economic opportunities, including faster and more informed analyses of economic trends around the world, easy transfers of assets, and collaboration with far-flung partners.

Globalization still remains to be a controversial word in the dictionary of economics and politics.
Supporters of Globalization argue that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their standards of living. No matter they buy their own products or use the imported products of the other countries in their markets.

They believe that Globalization changes the world to a village where we can have access to all what we need. They are of the idea that Globalization avails the chances to grow and develop more and more.

Globalization is an inevitable phenomenon in human history that has been bringing the world closer through the exchange of goods and products, information, knowledge and culture. Supporters of globalization say countries—like China, India—that have opened up their doors to the world economy, have significantly reduced poverty.
The two most prominent pro-globalization organizations are the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Forum.

Opponents claim the creation of an unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the western world at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people. People in the third world countries and especially Islamic societies and more specifically Afghanistan believe that Globalization broadly refers to the process of westernization or more specifically and clearly "Americanization".

This is a process helping the rich and developed countries become richer and more developed and the poor and less developed countries become poorer day by day. Rather confusingly, 'globalization' is also used by some to refer to the efforts of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the countries like United States of America to create a global free market for goods and services.

This political project, while being significant - and potentially damaging for a lot of poorer nations - is really a means to exploit the larger process .The anti-globalization groups argue that certain groups of people who are deprived in terms of resources are not currently capable of functioning within the increased competitive pressure that will be brought about by allowing their economies to be more connected to the rest of the world.

Important anti-globalization organizations include environmental groups like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace; international aid organizations like Oxfam; third world government organizations like the G77; business organizations and trade unions whose competitiveness is threatened by globalization like the U.S. textiles and European farm lobby, as well as the Australian and U.S. trade union movements.

Globalization in Afghanistan is yet not a known, familiar and accepted terminology in the minds of local people and dictionaries of businessmen. Thus it still remains to be a challenging process for the young afghan administration and Afghanistan's weak economy.

Afghanistan which is geographically located in central Asia has always been the victim of the challenging policies of the world superpowers and its neighbors. It has experienced decades of conflicts and internal war.

Its economic infrastructures totally ruined and therefore it is now fully dependent on the imported products of other countries. Since the collapse of Taliban regime in 2001, Afghanistan with the assistance of International Community has tried to rebuild its economic infrastructures but still it is a long way back.

Its exports in comparison to its imports are of huge differences. Thinking of keeping our doors open for the foreign products at a time when our products do not have the ability to compete the foreign imported goods, can be a big mistake by our politicians. Instead they should try to appreciate our own products by applying more import tariffs on the foreign goods.

Globalization is definitely of great importance for the world rich economies but not for the poor ones like Afghanistan. International Community, International Organizations, Strong Economies, Regional Economic Cooperation Organizations and the Afghanistan Government should keep in mind the importance of strengthening Afghanistan's economy by appreciating Afghani products and availing job opportunities and income sources for the people regardless of globalization requirements before it changes to a safe nest of terrorists once again!