But the most compelling ground for optimism lies elsewhere. During the past 15 years or so a fourth channel for globalization has emerged, one that was barely recognized when the Berlin Wall came down ...

There is a sense in which the present phase of capitalist globalization represents a return to the past. However, as a review of the economic history of the 20th century will show, this does not ...

ROGER W. FERGUSON, JR., is the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Although there is little formal empirical evidence to support the oft-cited claims that financial globalization has caused the financial crises that the world has seen over the past three decades, the ...

Cultural values may have become more different globally but more similar regionally over the past 40 years ... on modernization suggested that globalization would lead to a convergence of cultural ...

Globalization, roughly defined as the global ... which directs the trafficking of these migrants. The past two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the trafficking of girls and young women ...