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Globalization, as it is known today, has always been a contentious issue. It may not seem that way for people of my age who grew up under unfettered assumptions. The expansion of global trade as the ...

The concept for the UN was started while WWII still raged on. No one wanted a repeat of the waste and disarray of another global conflict. President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Maxim Litvinov ...

Here's a fact worth reiterating: despite the severe shocks and imbalances that have hit it off and on during the early years of this century, the world economy continues to grow, with low inflation.

Despite a U.S.-driven trade war with China, voters turning to populism across the globe and the risk of a recession, reports of globalization’s demise are — at least for now — overblown. Washington’s ...

How can the demands of globalization be reconciled with a more traditional constitutional framework? At an AEI and Federalist Society event on Thursday, professors John Yoo and Julian Ku addressed ...

Jared Diamond, a geographer at UCLA, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies." E-mail: [email protected]. We tend to think of ...

In a forthcoming study from the American Journal of Sociology, Emily Erikson and Peter Bearman (Columbia University) demonstrate that an early example of globalization was the direct result of ...

LEPTIS MAGNA, Libya - The most vibrant cities of the Roman Empire were often not found in Europe. Many were located along the southern and eastern Mediterranean and Aegean, such as Leptis Magna, ...