The animated fight against globalization An innovative short video uses kinetic typography to illustrate the need to preserve local cultures. By Michael Dooley. Published February 28, ...

We live in a time of protectionist backlash. U.S. President Donald Trump has started a trade war with China, upended the North American Free Trade Agreement, imposed tariffs on the United States’ ...

In the face of a sluggish world economic recovery, the rising threat of protectionism, and the widening gap between the rich and the poor, discussions around economic globalization are increasing ...

Globalization — the flow of goods, service, capital, energy, data, and people across borders — is everywhere from our food to our phones and fuels every industry.

The champion of globalization is now breaking it After the WWII, the US engineered the Bretton Woods system and WTO to institutionalize free trade, cleverly embedding its economic dominance into ...

A logo of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is seen in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 5, 2023. Today, amid the tariff war, we witness the emergence of throwaway lines about the "end of globalization." ...

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the economic “mutual assured destruction” that was supposed to safeguard globalization and deter decoupling apparently reached its limits.

Dr. Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and has written extensively about globalization’s first collapse. April 5, 2025 Before World War I, globalization was at a high ...