Unlocking the World. By John Darwin. Allen Lane; 496 pages; £25. IN LIVERPOOL, A French observer marvelled in 1907, “one feels one is in contact with America, Australia, west Africa, the Far East, at ...
The layering and reconfiguration of connectivity is underway. History warns that declaring the end of globalization too early obscures the institutional and regulatory restructuring processes that are ...
Globalization’s rich history began long before giant conglomerates such as Amazon and Google existed. There is a timeline of discovery, protectionism, liberalization, financial crisis, and economic ...
“Peace is the natural effect of trade,” wrote Montesquieu in 1748. Alas, his faith is proving misplaced, says Guillaume de Calignon in Les Echos. The globalisation of the past few decades has not ...
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What is the relationship between the history of the city and the history of globalization? To tackle this question we will look at theories and histories of the city and of globalization from a macro ...
‘Globalisation: Origins-History-Analysis-Resistance’ was originally published in Do Or Die #8, 1999. Do Or Die was an annual anarchist/communist/ecological direct ...
We live in an age of global competition, and that competition is centered on emerging technologies. Authoritarian regimes are attempting to change the international order to their advantage in the ...