List of Globalization articles
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Islam’s Medieval Outposts
For centuries, young men have gathered at Islamic seminaries to escape Western influences and quietly study Islamic texts that have been handed down unchanged through the ages. But over the last two decades, revolution, Great Power politics, and poverty have combined to give the fundamentalist teachings at some of these madrasas a violent twist. And now, in one of globalization's deadlier ironies, these "universities of jihad" are spreading their medieval theology worldwide.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Measuring Globalization: Who’s Up, Who’s Down?
Two years ago, we created an index that measures a country's global links, from foreign direct investment to international travel, telephone traffic, and Internet servers. For the last two years, Singapore and Ireland have topped our ranking of political, economic, and technological integration in 62 countries. Find out who was the most global of all and how September 11 affected global integration in the 2003 A.T. Kearney/FOREIGN POLICY Magazine Globalization Index.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pests and Pestilence
Why humans are more vulnerable than ever to animal-borne diseases.
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The IMF Strikes Back
Slammed by anti-globalist protesters, developing-country politicians, and Nobel Prize–winning economists, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become Global Scapegoat Number One. But IMF economists are not evil, nor are they invariably wrong. It’s time to set the record straight and focus on more pressing economic debates, such as how best to promote global growth and financial stability.
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Five Wars of Globalization
The illegal trade in drugs, arms, intellectual property, people, and money is booming. Like the war on terrorism, the fight to control these illicit markets pits governments against agile, stateless, and resourceful networks empowered by globalization. Governments will continue to lose these wars until they adopt new strategies to deal with a larger, unprecedented struggle that now shapes the world as much as confrontations between nation-states once did.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Indigenous World
How native peoples can turn globalization to their advantage.
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