Financial globalization—the phenomenon of rising cross-border financial flows—is often blamed for the string of damaging economic crises that rocked a number of emerging markets in the late 1980s in ...

Globalization is the big story of our era. It is shaping not just economies, but societies, polities, and international relations. Many assume it is also, for good or ill, an unstoppable force.

That’s the in-house term for the anti–World Trade Organization riots that thrilled and scandalized Seattle beginning on November 30, 1999, back when “globalization” was a fighting word.