List of Theory articles
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Will Globalization Go Bankrupt?
Global integration is driven not by politics or the Internet or the World Trade Organization or even -- believe it or not -- McDonald's. No, throughout history, globalization has been driven primarily by monetary expansions. Credit booms spark periods of economic integration, while credit contractions quickly squelch them. Is today's world on the verge of another globalization bust?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vox Americani
What do Americans want? The U.S. public's view of the world has long been a study in what seem like maddening contradictions, at times both altruistic and paranoid, protectionist and entrepreneurial, and isolationist and multilateralist. Like many other analysts, FP's editors have worn deep furrows into our brows trying to discern how Americans see the world and their place in it. So we invited Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland and author of several groundbreaking studies of U.S. public opinion, to "interview" the American people on the most pressing global issues of the day. He created a composite of average Americans -- a virtual John/Jane Q. Public -- derived from the majority positions in extensive polling data and using the kind of language he commonly hears in focus groups. (An annotated version of this interview can be found at foreignpolicy.com with footnotes citing poll questions and data.) As it turns out, Americans defy simple labels, largely because they refuse to submit to simplistic choices.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Think Again: The Globalization Backlash
Lost your job? Your cultural identity? Your democratic rights? Your clean air and water? Blame globalization -- everyone else does. From Seattle to Copenhagen and Washington, D.C., to Genoa, protesters of all stripes and creeds have turned globalization into a shorthand for many of the world's ills. But judging by the widespread misconceptions about the true consequences of the integration of markets, politics, and cultures, a smaller world is not necessarily a smarter one.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Globalization Without a Net
Why national governments cannot integrate their countries into the global economy and protect the poor at the same time.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Other Evil
The war on terrorism won't succeed without a war on poverty.
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Globalization’s Last Hurrah?
The shock of terrorist attacks and a worldwide economic slowdown have prompted many observers to declare globalization's end. But any recent reversals in global integration must be measured against the remarkable advances of 2000. The second annual A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index, which ranks the 20 most global nations, also sheds light on a crucial question: Has globalization hit a bump in the road, or is it on the verge of a fundamental shift?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Five Things Obama Should Do in China
Here's what the U.S. president needs to do to shore up what is fast becoming the most important relationship in the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Dependent Colossus
Although globalization today reinforces American power, over time it promises to have the opposite effect.
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Debate: States of Discord
The worldviews of Thomas Friedman and Robert Kaplan are about as different as a modem and a bayonet. No surprise, then, that these two influential commentators diverged sharply over the future of the nation-state at a recent debate in Washington, D.C. Will globalization ultimately strengthen or destroy the state? Will it lead to more democracies or more revolutions? And does transnational terrorism signal the end -- or the triumph -- of global integration? Pick your champion and pull up a chair.
