Consider two aspects of globalization: first, planes exploding as they slam into the World Trade Center, and second, the emission of carbon dioxide from the exhaust of gas-guzzling sport-utility ...

Not too long ago, globalization was seen by academics and policymakers as a powerful force bringing the world closer together and promoting economic prosperity and stability. The open flow of goods, ...

Ruy Teixeira shows that Americans support globalization in principle, but are concerned about how it effects American jobs, wages, and benefits. In the 2006 elections, many incumbents in the Senate ...

Free trade is under greater attack today than it has been in decades, especially in the United States. Despite continued public support for foreign trade and globalization generally (even during the ...

For most people, globalization has for decades been another name for across-the-board liberalization. Starting mainly in the 1980s, governments allowed goods, services, capital, and data to move ...

Globalization can be defined as the integration of economies, industries, markets, cultures, and policy-making processes around the world. 1 Even though the concept is not new, the current wave of ...

International collaboration is a key aspect of the globalization of science and engineering. A recent report and data evaluation released by the U.S. National Science Foundation showed that one in six ...

Cargo ships inbound from Asia wait to dock at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. (Photo by Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images) On September 25, 2022, ...

Jared Diamond, a geographer at UCLA, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies." E-mail: jdiamond@geog.ucla.edu. We tend to think of ...