Exploring Late Globalization: A Viewpoint

The purpose of this viewpoint paper is to motivate a program of research on late globalization, a program that could eventually lead to one or more significant theories of late globalization. The paper explores the phenomenon of late globalization as well as the idea of “late” by drawing on sparse literature on late globalization from sociocultural and economic perspectives. It illustrates in a vignette the character and features of late globalization observable in the withdrawal from foreign locations or deinternationalization
of universities, as late globalizing entitis. The paper discusses the range of constructs around the core idea of late globalization, generating questions for future work in a late globalization research program.