Triadization

The term triadization is often used by critics of the term globalization in order to reduce the phenomenon of globalization to its three essential actors in the political science debate and thus to underline that globalization does not actually take place. In this context, the term trunk globalization is also used.

The so-called triad is made up of the North American, European and East Asian economies , which are seen as the dominant driving forces behind world trade and which, through interregional cooperation, simultaneously expand it and seal it off from third parties.

An essential aspect of this approach is the assumption that developing and emerging countries are excluded from globalization and any profits that may result from it, or are even exploited by the industrialized nations mentioned in order to increase their profits. However, this assumption is only partially correct, since at least countries such as China and India as well as some ASEAN states have benefited in a special way from globalization.

Furthermore, the triadization is not limited to the economic sector , but also relates to cultural and social areas.

In this way, in the perception of the people of a certain culture of the triad, a certain we-perception arises , which at the same time can be channeled into a rejection of the other two cultures of the triad.

Cultures outside the triad are simultaneously being marginalized and threatened with extinction. Here the concept of triadization partially overlaps with that of neoliberal cultural imperialism .

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• Konrad Löw: Basic Knowledge of Politics, Upper Secondary Level II, Volume 1 , Basic Features of Democracy, Cornelsen, 1998, ISBN 978-3464650059
• Kenichi Ohmae: Power of the Triad. The new form of global competition , Modern Industry, 2006, ISBN 978-3636013958