University of Hull – Business School

“Globalization is a fact of life but I believe we have underestimated its fragility”. From that sentence that Kofi Annan said being Secretary General of the United Nations. We will describe what the objectives of the United Nations are, what their role in Globalization is. Then we will see what the term “globalization” means and what the challenges are for such a process which is a process of blending or homogenization by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together.
We will show that Globalization is not so global so far… and will go deeper in the reasons why. Why, in which context, Kofi Annan said these words. We will also identify and analyze what the main problems are discuss its fragility.

First of all, the United Nations (UN) is an international organization “whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achieving world peace.”
United Nations have five main objectives which are: * To maintain peace and safety in the world * To develop friendly relationships between the nations * To carry out international cooperation on all the topics where it can be useful * To be a center where efforts are harmonized in common objectives * To supervise borders intangibility
Maintaining peace was the main wish of Kofi Annan who was honoured with the Nobel Prize of peace in 2001.

Let us now speak about the definition of globalization. Since the beginning of 1990, “globalization” or “universalization” indicates a new phase in the planetary integration of the economic, financial, ecological and cultural phenomenon. An attentive examination shows that this phenomenon is neither linear nor irreversible.
The term “globalization” indicates the development of interdependence between men and women, human activities and political ones.
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