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 ...

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.

The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.

Nations such as the U.S. and the member states of the European Union he termed “posthistorical,” having come to rest permanently outside the ideological boundaries of history. They had arrived ...