January 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interview Jeffry Frieden, Chair of the Department of Government at Harvard and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, on globalization, the rise of ...

A Volkswagen employee works on an assembly line in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in December. WANG QIN/FOR CHINA DAILY With their mutually complementary economic advantages, there is no so-called ...

The past 30 years have been a time of rapid globalization, an era in which multinational companies (MNCs) tapped global capital, built businesses optimized for global supply and demand, and served ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

ABSTRACT: Bonded zones (BZs) and export processing zones (EPZs), as key measures to promote the development of export-oriented economy, have an important impact on the export commodity structures ...

Dr. Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and has written extensively about globalization’s first collapse. April 5, 2025 Before World War I, globalization was at a high point.

Globalization is often seen as a force that erodes local cultures, blending everything into a single, uniform global identity. But what if globalization, instead of being a cultural bulldozer, could ...

In 2023, the U.S. experienced a trade deficit of $773 billion, with China as its largest trade creditor. The U.S. trade deficit has steadily grown since 2009, regardless of which party held the ...

You know that feeling when you look back on something from the past and think, “Wow, we’ve come so far!” That’s modernization theory in a nutshell. It’s the idea that societies develop and progress ...

A truck arrives at the Port of Los Angeles in 2021. (Damian Dovarganes/AP) National security adviser Jake Sullivan strode into the Brookings Institution in Washington last year to explain himself to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...