Globalization

The world’s most powerful economic elites are using anti-globalist rhetoric to help turbocharge globalization—and enrich themselves.

For a decade, the G-20 has provided the nondemocratic oversight the global economy deserves.

Technology has already driven blue-collar workers into the underclass. Professionals may be next.

Politicians must prepare voters for automation; otherwise, opportunistic populists will seize the agenda.

China’s global economic ambitions require help, and it’s entirely appropriate for the United Kingdom to offer it.

An unabashed defense of the Trump administration’s favorite object of ire.

China was once a cheerleader for Trump. But now that the president is singing a different tune, that could quickly change.

A sizable bloc of voters across Western democracies sense that they are on the losing end of globalization – and want to defect from it.

The World Economic Forum’s annual celebration of global capitalism once represented the inevitable arc of human progress. No longer.

Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the fragility of international order and his latest book, “A World in Disarray.”

New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman argues that despite all the disruptions in today’s world, we should instead look to opportunity and growth, and stay positive.

Don’t blame low working-class wages or the financial crisis for the populist wave that produced Trump and Brexit. The data show the tide started decades ago.

Trump's message plays well with his base but gains little traction with the broader electorate.

Shakespeare may never have left England, but he became the most global writer who ever lived.

New waves of nationalism in the U.K., U.S., and Europe could threaten the financing of programs that have saved millions of lives around the world.

The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It’s not about the left vs. the right; it’s about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.

When it comes to the impact of global trade, the dismal science has done a dismal job explaining how to help workers hurt by globalization.

Jeffrey E. Garten and Robert Zoellick on refugees, women, and the connected world.

2011 Global Thinker Robert Zoellick and Jeffrey E. Garten discuss the future of emerging markets, gender equality, and the cyclical nature of globalization.

Sporadic outbreaks may be possible but a widespread epidemic is unlikely.