Many globalizations, one international relations.

Stressing that the shrinking of time and distance has led to multiplying boundary-spanning activities in diverse realms of life around the world, this paper suggests that unfortunately long-standing disciplinary habits and professional orthodoxies inhibit inquiries into the multidisciplinary nature of globalization. It argues that, in effect, there are many globalizations, but only one international relations in the sense that investigators of world affairs are too rooted into treating the state or the society as bounded and terminal entities to explore the full range of phenomena that presently mark world affairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]