However, most accounts of globalisation focus on changes that have occurred in the economic or political spheres, and have thus reflected on what are termed economic globalisation or political globalisation. This has meant that the cultural impact of globalisation has often been overlooked, something that is surprising in view of the wide-ranging and far-reaching developments with which has been associated. This article discusses, first, the sense in which globalisation the cultural dimension – what is cultural globalisation? It then examines some of the major ways in which cultural globalisation has reshaped world politics.