NYU-Stern professor Pankaj Ghemawat discusses how companies can plan for an evolving world of multi-country international supply chains and cross-border information flows. In 1992, Canada, Mexico ...

Globalization, or the increasing integration of economies around the world, is a complex phenomenon with a long history. Learn more about how it started.

Emiko Ohnuki-Tiernay discusses rice's profound cultural significance in Japan, tracing its historical roots from ancient ...

The locomotive of history, he suggested, had reached its terminal station. A soldier is seen from behind in combat gear on a broken war-torn road. Ukrainian soldier, outside Kharkiv, 2022.

To be fair, globalization has been declared dead since early 2016. That’s when the World Economic Forum first said as much, ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Worth noting, this ...

A history of globalization on horseback Horses once drove global trade and power struggles, similar to today's semiconductors. It’s easy to forget that not too long ago, ...

The champion of globalization is now breaking it. After the WWII, the US engineered the Bretton Woods system and WTO to institutionalize free trade, ... History's verdict is clear: ...

Dr. Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and has written extensively about globalization’s first collapse. April 5, 2025 Before World War I, globalization was at a high ...

History shows that globalization is largely driven by technological changes that reduce the importance of distance, and that will not change. CAMBRIDGE – Late last year, Morris Chang, the legendary ...