Globalization, as it is known today, has always been a contentious issue. It may not seem that way for people of my age who grew up under unfettered assumptions. The expansion of global trade as the ...
The concept for the UN was started while WWII still raged on. No one wanted a repeat of the waste and disarray of another global conflict. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Maxim Litvinov ...
Despite a U.S.-driven trade war with China, voters turning to populism across the globe and the risk of a recession, reports of globalization’s demise are — at least for now — overblown. Washington’s ...
In a forthcoming study from the American Journal of Sociology, Emily Erikson and Peter Bearman (Columbia University) demonstrate that an early example of globalization was the direct result of ...
At a dinner party in mid-February, an architect told me that he was having a problem finishing his building projects. It was the carpets. Most wall-to-wall carpeting for big construction projects in ...
The thought that trade and globalization might make a comeback in the 2020s, picking up renewed vigor after the pandemic, may seem far-fetched. After all, COVID-19 is fragmenting the world, destroying ...
This informative book provides a survey of how globalization has enabled the spread of disease and of the concurrent development of global public health practices and institutions. Travelers have ...
Despite a U.S.-driven trade war with China, voters turning to populism across the globe and the risk of a recession, reports of globalization’s demise are — at least for now — overblown. Washington’s ...
Globalization, as it is known today, has always been a contentious issue. It may not seem that way for people of my age who grew up under unfettered assumptions. The expansion of global trade as the ...