For most people, globalization has for decades been another name for across-the-board liberalization. Starting mainly in the 1980s, governments allowed goods, services, capital, and data to move ...

Consider two aspects of globalization: first, planes exploding as they slam into the World Trade Center, and second, the emission of carbon dioxide from the exhaust of gas-guzzling sport-utility ...

Cargo ships inbound from Asia wait to dock at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. (Photo by Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images) On September 25, 2022, ...

Globalization can be defined as the integration of economies, industries, markets, cultures, and policy-making processes around the world. 1 Even though the concept is not new, the current wave of ...

Jared Diamond, a geographer at UCLA, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies." E-mail: jdiamond@geog.ucla.edu. We tend to think of ...

Americans have profoundly mixed feelings about globalization. They generally support it in the abstract -- and, as befits the national character, most people are optimistic for the country as a whole.

BlackRock's Larry Fink and Oaktree's Howard Marks have predicted that globalization is coming to an end. The Russia-Ukraine war and COVID-19 are making companies and countries rethink their reliance ...

The summer of 2021 has come to be largely defined by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and accelerating climate change. Both are manifestations of globalization and the reality of a world increasingly ...

An hour into the first staff meeting of Yale’s brand-new Center for the Study of Globalization, Director Strobe Talbott’s assistant broke into the meeting to announce that there was something on the ...