Nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the Americas, much of the world was already connected via trade, exploration, and cultural exchange. In fact, one can trace globalization all ...

The globalization we knew and understood for most of the 20th century resembled more the globalization that emerged from the Industrial Revolution than it did the globalization we experience today.

Centuries sometimes take a decade or so before their true contours take shape and the 21st is no exception. In an uncanny fashion, the beginning of this century mirrors that of the last — the speed, ...

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, ...

When the historian Tara Zahra began to write her book “Against the World,” she tells us, Donald Trump had just been elected president, and the Brits had bolted from the European Union in a vote for ...

Globalization, the increasing integration of world markets, has already done a lot of great things for Americans. It has helped America win the war on communism. It has freed Americans from government ...

In the great tropical harbor of Manila Bay, two groups of men warily approach each other, their hands poised above their weapons. Cold-eyed, globe-trotting traders, they are from opposite ends of the ...

Globalization was already on the retreat in some countries before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Will the crisis be globalization’s ultimate undoing? Chicago Booth’s Randall S. Kroszner says the world ...

John Rennie Short does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s populist assault on globalization has provoked fears of the death—or the slowing—of the economic force that has arguably done more than any other to shape how we live ...

Donald Trump’s election to the presidency of the United States makes Brexit look like a hiccup. As Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, put it, the election of Trump is “Brexit times ...