The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an institution dealing with rules of trade between nations. Its goal is to “ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. [The] result ...

The increasing globalization of economic, social, political, and cultural life is a key feature of the contemporary world. Written by a leading authority, Jan Aart Scholte’s new book provides a ...

First, the coronavirus crisis exposed cracks in our economic interdependency. Now, the war in Ukraine is blowing up commodity markets. These may be signposts on the road of deglobalization — which is ...

From the streets of Seattle to corporate boardrooms to new factories in third-world nations, globalization is subject to very different and often explosively divergent interpretations. Where some see ...

ONE of my history professors once told me, “The fastest way to learn something you do not know is to teach it.” And so despite the fact that I am more of a cultural historian, I have long accepted to ...