DO RECENT INTERNATIONAL CRISES REPRESENT THE "END OF GLOBALIZATION"?

Globalization (henceforth, also G) is a process, which has been lived and perceived, defined and understood in various ways. And since its first mentions in the 1960s through its "discursive explosion" in the 1990s, virtually no one questioned its existence. A global transformation the coming closer of various economies, societies, and cultures seemed to be inevitable. However, in the past years, the world has witnessed various crises, which some interpret as the "end of globalization". E.g. the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US; the post-2008 economic crisis; the unsuccessful Arab Spring; the conflicts in Syria, Libya, or Yemen; the conflict in Ukraine and colder relations between Russia and the West; the emergence of the Islamic State; the terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels, and elsewhere; the migration crisis in Europe; or recently the "Brexit". The paper discusses whether G really could be "ending". It uses the methods of content and discourse analysis to search for claims of the "end of G". It analyzes various types of texts, namely magazine/newspaper articles, academic books and journal articles. The time-range of analysis is approximately the past fifteen years. The conclusions present the prevailing discourse, but necessarily not the author's opinion. Since G is a social, human-made process, its reflections (discourse) could also indicate how it is evolving in reality.