Discover when globalization began, from ancient trade routes to modern economic policies, and understand its impact on global trade and cultural exchange.

Globalization, as it is known today, has always been a contentious issue. It may not seem that way for people of my age who grew up under unfettered assumptions. The expansion of global trade as the ...

Globalization is going through its biggest stress test since the 2008 global financial crisis and its aftermath. But if you want to understand why the forces of economic integration may be more ...

If I had started reading the recent column by Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, “Free trade has not made us free,” in the middle of the piece, I would have first come across this sentence: “Our ...

The era when the world was open and free trade expanded has ended. We are now living in the ‘post-globalization’ era. There ...

Globalization is in trouble. A populist backlash, personified by U.S. President Donald Trump, is in full swing. A simmering trade war between China and the United States could easily boil over.

From Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring to surprising victories for Brexit and Trump, citizens around the globe are pushing back against their leaders’ policy choices. The world has embarked on a ...

In The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter, CFR Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies Shannon K. O'Neil offers a ...

Amid the headwinds facing economic globalization, certain countries have attempted to restructure global industrial chains through trade protectionism, which poses serious challenges to the ...

Coronavirus could also spread economic contagion from China over the long term, an economist has warned, as experts assess the financial fallout from the illness that has killed at least 1,700 people ...