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 ...

Globalization has transformed our planet, again and again. It touches every part of our lives: the food we eat, the entertainment we enjoy, the ways we communicate, the products we buy. For many of us ...

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 ...

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: [email protected]. 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.

The head of the Greater Cincinnati World Affairs Council will kick off a series of forums on globalization set for October in Indian Hill. Richard Lauf, chairman of the council’s board of directors ...