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 ...

Globalization—the process through which an increasingly free flow of ideas, people, goods, services, and capital leads to the integration of economies and societies—has brought rising prosperity to ...

After two and a half years of a pandemic that has exposed the fragility of global supply chains and eight months of war in Ukraine that has severed economic ties between Russia and the West and ...

Globalization, since the Brexit and Trump shocks of 2016, has been shaped by a tug of war between economic fundamentals and policy threats. But predictions that globalization would collapse under a ...

Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Mar., 2002), pp. 1-36 (36 pages) How does globalization affect the politics of conflict and security? This treatment concentrates on three ...

China's economy posted a solid 5.3 percent growth in the first half of 2025, while exports rose 7.2 percent year-on-year to reach 13 trillion yuan ($1.81 trillion) - the highest ever for the same ...

Over the last few decades, globalization has created great wealth and brought millions out of poverty. Today, a combination of technology, politics, and social pressures seems to be reversing ...

Advocates of globalization hoped that the more countries traded, and the more interdependent economies became, the less likely it would be that political conflict would interfere with their rising ...

Two recent studies — both largely overlooked — cast considerable doubt on the certainty of this conclusion. One, by researchers for the McKinsey Global Institute, reminds us of how interconnected the ...

Good morning and thank you for that kind introduction. It is a great pleasure for me to be back here in St Petersburg and at this economic forum. I believe this is an especially appropriate place to ...

While globalization creates substantial economic gains on average, those gains are unevenly distributed. Some industries and cities end up worse off. In theory, this problem can be addressed through ...