Last week, discussing the vagaries of international commerce in a time of pandemic, war and the climate emergency, I’m afraid I used the words “globalism” and “globalization” fairly interchangeably.

A conversation with Tara Zahra about the early-20th-century origins of globalism, how debates over a globalized world have morphed across a century, and her new book, Against the World. Members of the ...

Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with guests with very different opinions on the promise, and fate, of Globalization. Columbia University’s Jagdish Bhagwati, author of the new book In Defense of ...

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 point.

When the historian Tara Zahra began to write her book “Against the World,” she tells us, Donald Trump had just been elected president, and the Brits had bolted from the European Union in a vote for ...

For years, government officials, business school professors, and executives have espoused the benefits of globalization, supporting their arguments with sound evidence. For example, the United Nations ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New research commissioned by Western Union shows that millennials across 15 countries are united by a belief in globalization, want the freedom to experience the ...

Three key questions lie at the heart of debates about whether global crises and escalating geopolitical tensions have begun to reverse globalization: Has the growth of cross-border trade, capital, ...

There’s a story haunting American politics. It’s a story told by right-wing populists like Donald Trump and JD Vance and left-wing populists like Bernie Sanders. The story goes something like this: ...

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