Globalization
20/09/2024 - 14:39
I suggested that it would be the nation-state that would give way in the long run. But not without a struggle. In the short term, the more... →
12/04/2022 - 13:37
The spectrum of possible outcomes ranges from a volatile new cold or hot war involving the United States, Russia, and China; to a frozen... →
29/12/2020 - 18:10
Those who want to project forward to a malevolent, expansionist China point to evidence of aggression in Beijing’s posture today. Those... →
27/10/2020 - 12:14
Or defenders of the Leonid Brezhnev-era “actually existing socialism” of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Or maybe they were social... →
13/06/2020 - 12:28
The post-pandemic world economy seems likely to be a far less globalized economy, with political leaders and publics rejecting openness in... →
15/03/2020 - 12:39
Translation: between 750,000 and 1.1 million Americans may die of this disease before it runs its course. The latter figure is equal to all... →
29/02/2020 - 13:54
There are times when we should expect the system to reach a tipping point – the “Minsky Moment” – when a boom and a bubble turn into a... →
20/02/2020 - 13:11
A multitude of security challenges seem to have become inseparable from what some describe as the decay of the Western project. What is... →
15/10/2019 - 11:55
For the past 30 years or more these institutions have run under established rules. The government wants a booming jobs market that wins... →
26/09/2019 - 12:04
Another 1,500 years later – today – Zoroastrianism is a dying faith, its sacred flames tended by ever fewer worshippers.
We take it for... →
05/04/2019 - 17:51
Once upon a time, everyone assumed that there was a single phenomenon called globalization, whereby cross-border flows of financial capital... →
20/02/2019 - 15:18
Alibaba shouldn’t be alone in looking back. As we are entering a new, digital-driven era of globalization – we call it “Globalization 4.0... →