Just as climate change worsens existing vulnerabilities such as food poverty and water shortages, trade amplifies weaknesses in the social fabric. In regions where people have fallen behind ...

In the modern economy, globalisation can be recognised as one of the defining trends, observed even in those countries where other features of the global economy are either not obviously present or ...

Just over three decades ago, the Cold War ended and the former Soviet-bloc countries began their transitions to market economies, which enabled them to engage with the rest of the global economy. The ...

Pakistan is now an example of hybrid society as a result of globalisation, trying to find a balance between Islamisation and modernism Advances in technology, such as mobile phones, aero planes and ...

Millions around the globe may have taken to the streets in recent years to protest against the impact of globalisation on their jobs and communities - but this backlash is only likely to grow as ...

The ripple effects of the Russo-Ukrainian war are spreading and intensifying. Their impact is being felt in almost every corner of the globe, revealing an international system under duress. The US-led ...

The world’s best days for economic globalisation are behind it forever, and the US’ “ideologicalised” industrial subsidies are bound to fail, warns an outspoken former Chinese finance minister as ...

IN CHOOSING the World Trade Centre for their principal target, the terrorists were striving not merely to kill as many Americans as they could, but also to tear down a potent symbol of America's ...

CAMBRIDGE — As wildfires raged through Los Angeles in January, the infamous American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones posted on X (formerly Twitter) that they were “part of a larger globalist plot to ...

Globalisation changed the world during the last two decades. It promised a future where countries would cooperate. They would share resources and grow together. Many believed that a more connected ...

In the 1990s, globalisation was often characterised as inevitable and irreversible. Politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair saw it as the unstoppable wave of the future and sought to ride it for ...

Kenneth Thomas, the Middle Class Political Economist, has a series on whether Globalisation benefits the (American) middle class. His answer is that generally it doesn't, a conclusion that I disagree ...