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ANALYSIS OF PERCEPTION OF THE ACHIEVED LEVEL OF GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL CONNECTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Globalization affects almost all spheres of people's lives, which is why we can look at it from four main aspects - economic, political, cultural and environmental. The paper analyzes four aspects of globalization, as well as the positive and negative impacts of globalization on the wider community. Developed countries are the bearers of the process of globalization and they are the ones who have best used the benefits of globalization. With the development of information and communication technology, the world has become a unique system, and the connection between two entities in different parts of the world is often realized in a few minutes. From another point of view, the process of globalization creates a free market that allows the free movement of people, goods, services and capital, while deepening inequalities between developed and underdeveloped countries with serious threats to the environment. The last few decades have seen the world come together to liberalize and deregulate international trade, reduce international trade and investment barriers, develop information technology and telecommunications, advances in science and the profession, demographic change and many other causes. Globalization represents different things to different people. In the business world, globalization means a "free world" for the flow of money and trade, for political scientists and politicians it means the disappearance or at least the challenge of state borders, while globalization for the average citizen is the same living conditions as in other countries. For these reasons, the analysis of the perception of the degree of globalization of the Republic of Croatia was approached and the research in this paper included 168 respondents. The aim of this paper is to prove that the perception of the degree of globalization of Croatia largely depends on the age group of respondents, which also represents the attitude of respondents to the global position of the Republic of Croatia.

Globalization, aspects of globalization, perception of globalization, degree of globalization of the Republic of Croatia

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