Reviewed by Michael J Boyle Fact checked by Kirsten Rohrs Schmitt Globalization has shown relatively steady and rapid ...

In the theater of history, irony often plays a leading role. How did the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known — according to the World Bank lifting 1.5 billion people out of crushing ...

A new interactive tracker provides more timely, and surprising, answers about trade ‘connectedness’ around the world. Is globalization reversing? Will US tariffs derail global trade? Is the world ...

There’s been a lot of talk these days that globalization is dead, even reversing — and for good reason. It seems that many of the factors that had been driving globalization have run out of steam. The ...

New Mexico’s ‘Free’ Child Care an Attempt to Cover for Past Failures Audio By Carbonatix The America-led movement for freer trade has been good for the world and for Americans most of all. Few ...

At the end of the Cold War, many thinkers optimistically predicted that globalization would cause societies’ social values to converge around liberal notions of personal rights and freedoms. Since ...

As a member of the working class, I found it instructive that the “neo-liberal” catechistic editorial “The French No” (June 1) and “Why Europeans Are Mad as Hell at the New Europe” (Commentary, June 2 ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism The “first age” of globalization was beset by contradictions. In the 60 years or so before World ...

Trump "has taken the hatchet to trade with practically every major U.S. trading partner, sparing few allies or rivals," says Cornell economist Eswar Prasad. It’s a real trade war now. Beijing ...

In this ambitious and sweeping study, Thomas tells the grand story of the end of European empires and the struggle for decolonization. This drama played out in different times and places across Africa ...

Washington, 5 December 2000 (RFE/RL) -- A United Nations conference has concluded that modern slavery, which now takes the form of women and children being sold into prostitution or of desperate ...