Increasing global interconnection – growing cross-border flows of people, goods, energy, emails, television and radio signals, data, drugs, terrorists, weapons ...

The Economist Michael O’Sullivan argues in his new book “The Leveling: What’s Next After Globalization” that globalization is dead. As long-standing scholars of globalization and competitiveness, our ...

This is an opinion editorial by Ansel Lindner, a bitcoin and financial markets researcher and the host of the “Bitcoin & Markets” and “Fed Watch” podcasts. Two forces have dominated the globe ...

The rapid, extensive spread of COVID-19 is partly a crisis of globalization. The pandemic gives us an opportunity to rethink our global economic system in favor of ‘deglobalization.’ Greg Wilpert: ...

On Sept 23, 2025, the Foreign Policy Association and the Committee of 100 hosted a debate on the topic “Is Deglobalization Inevitable?,” with Walden Bello, co-chair of the Board of Focus on the Global ...

The most recent era of globalization seems to have come to an end. The ratio of global exports of goods and services to world GDP peaked in 2008 and has trended down ever since. According to the World ...

In 2016, significant votes in the U.S. and UK, driven partly by immigration and global engagement issues, marked a pivotal moment. The U.S. election saw Donald Trump's victory with his "America first" ...

An article written by authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg on March 24 sounded the alarm to announce the end of “the second great age of globalization.” The Western trade war ...

Two recent studies — both largely overlooked — cast considerable doubt on the certainty of this conclusion. One, by researchers for the McKinsey Global Institute, reminds us of how interconnected the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sarah Williamson covers capital markets and long-term strategies. As the new year dawns, it is natural to look ahead and ask ...

About the author: Joseph Quinlan is head of CIO market strategy in the Chief Investment Office for Merrill and Bank of America Private Bank. Nothing is more fashionable these days than writing the ...

Breakdowns in global trade and credit call for money that doesn’t depend on trust. Bitcoin is the modern answer for international economics. This is an opinion editorial by Ansel Lindner, a bitcoin ...