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’ ...

But that’s only part of the story. Even as its detractors erect new impediments and walk away from free-trade agreements, globalization is in fact continuing its forward march—but along new paths. In ...

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Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the amount of enterprise network traffic to and from Asia Pacific due to globalization. In my recent visit to the region, I engaged in ...

Globalization continues—the widespread predictions of its death were wildly premature. But this is nothing to celebrate. The current round of globalization is in fact largely the product of “unhealthy ...

The U.K. House of Commons has finally voted for Brexit. If the plan passes the House of Lords without much delay, the U.K. will leave the European Union several years after a 2016 referendum set it ...

Each leader has a set of challenges and opportunities unique to the company’s history, market segment, customer changes and technology. Every one of them is faced with the challenges and opportunities ...

In a forthcoming study from the American Journal of Sociology, Emily Erikson and Peter Bearman (Columbia University) demonstrate that an early example of globalization was the direct result of ...

Members of the League of Nations looking over their shoulders during an assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, 1920. (Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images) Historians often interpret the history of Europe ...