List of Globalization articles
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David’s Friend Goliath
The rest of the world complains that American hegemony is reckless, arrogant, and insensitive. Just don't expect them to do anything about it. The world's guilty secret is that it enjoys the security and stability the United States provides. The world won't admit it, but they will miss the American empire when it's gone.
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Gunning For the World
Once just a club for red-blooded American gun owners, the National Rifle Association has become a savvy global lobby. It presses for gun rights at the United Nations. It assists pro-gun campaigns from Sydney to São Paulo. And it has found that its message -- loving freedom means loving guns -- translates into almost every language.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Failed States Index
Democracy may be spreading, but is the world more stable? In the second-annual Failed States Index, FP and the Fund for Peace track the countries on the edge of collapse.
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Lost in America
Speak two languages and you're bilingual. Speak one? You must be American. So goes the old joke. But globalization means that students can no longer remain blissfully unaware. Can Americans open the classroom door, or will today's youth be unprepared to lead tomorrow's world?
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BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images Decline of the Dollar
Don't believe everything you read on the Drudge Report. Well into the next few decades, the global economy will still be all about the benjamins.
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The Merchant of Death
Russian entrepreneur Viktor Bout has made millions of dollars as the world’s most efficient postman of illicit weapons. How was he able to build his intricate underground network?
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gettyimages-85746892 Why the World Isn’t Flat
Globalization has bound people, countries, and markets closer than ever, rendering national borders relics of a bygone era -- or so we're told. But a close look at the data reveals a world that's just a fraction as integrated as the one we thought we knew. In fact, more than 90 percent of all phone calls, Web traffic, and investment is local. What’s more, even this small level of globalization could still slip away.
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The Day Nothing Much Changed
We were told the world would never be the same. But did 9/11 actually alter the state of global affairs? For all the sound and fury, the world looks much like it did on September 10.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Diaper Diaspora
Angelina Jolie made international adoptions fashionable. Madonna made them controversial. But celebrities are just the most public faces of a growing global trend. Today, some 45,000 children are adopted each year by foreign parents willing to pay big for a little one.
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How Globalization Went Bad
From terrorism to global warming, the evils of globalization are more dangerous than ever before. What went wrong? The world became dependent on a single superpower. Only by correcting this imbalance can the world become a safer place.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Globalization Index 2007: Urban Outfitted
Why the least-globalized countries should be wary of their boomtowns.
