Globalization

A new book argues that Churchill’s famous folly was ultimately about food, fear, and free trade.

Consumers will punish brands that rely on forced Uighur labor. While abandoning the Chinese market might hit profits, it will bolster reputations.

Why the push to bring home manufacturing won’t work—and what Biden should do instead.

Supporting the middle class at home and reasserting leadership abroad may be mutually exclusive, especially in Asia.

In the global internet economy, India’s tech industry has a leg up on China’s.

We asked 12 leading thinkers to predict what happens in 2021 and beyond.

FP Analytics’ two-part Arctic Competition Power Map provides Insiders with an in-depth breakdown of how melting sea ice is enabling increased commercial activity and geopolitical competition over resources, shipping routes, and territory in the Arctic.

In the rich, lazy, and happy 1990s, Americans imagined a world that could be just like them.

In Part I of FP Analytics’ Arctic Competition Power Map, we visualize how climate change is physically transforming the Arctic, lay out the scale of potential resources that will be made available, and detail the positions and interests of major players in the region.

Explore FP Analytics’ Global Data Governance policy database that provides a comprehensive regional and country-level breakdown of global data governance practices in 111 countries worldwide.

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

Peter Marocco, after tumultuous tours at Pentagon and State, is stopping the agency’s newest division in its tracks, critics claim.

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 United States has abdicated its dominant role. Here’s how to fill the gap.

Part 2: FP Analytics examines evolving government data collection practices and how AI is making this collection more efficient and ubiquitous.

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.

Part 1: FP Analytics examines the proliferation of regulations impacting the most valuable global commodity — user data.

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