Globalization

For decades, U.S. strategists were thinking short-term. Its leaders should start taking an infinite perspective.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians are calling for a rethinking of global supply chains. If they are serious, they’ll need to proceed carefully.

The pandemic proved, once and for all, that the world can’t be flat. But global trade can recover—if we rewrite the rules.

The Chinese Communist Party has turned global ties into its own tools.

Countries across Europe and Asia are exploring special bilateral arrangements to ease border restrictions. The result could be a globe fractured along epidemiological lines.

U.S. strategy needs reglobalization to snatch critical power away from China.

The global multilateral system has failed to rise to the coronavirus challenge. It is time to let local leaders step in.

The pundits are once again proclaiming the end of capitalism and globalization. But global production networks are highly resilient, and ready to come back online.

New barriers are going up at breathtaking speed. The pandemic will accelerate not the demise of globalization but its transformation.

The pandemic will change the economic and financial order forever. We asked nine leading global thinkers for their predictions.

The world was already breaking apart. The coronavirus pandemic accelerates the trend.

The EU is a creature of multilateralism. Can it survive in a deglobalized world?

Decentralizing decision-making can help left-behind regions get back on track.

The coronavirus pandemic has turned a conscious uncoupling into a messy breakup.

Boris Johnson has contradictory ideas for his country’s future—and no clear paths for getting there.

The pandemic will change the world forever. We asked 12 leading global thinkers for their predictions.

Globalization is heading for the ICU, and other foreign-policy insights into the nature of the growing international crisis.

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.