Globalization’s rich history began long before giant conglomerates such as Amazon and Google existed. There is a timeline of discovery, protectionism, liberalization, financial crisis, and economic ...

NYU-Stern professor Pankaj Ghemawat discusses how companies can plan for an evolving world of multi-country international supply chains and cross-border information flows. In 1992, Canada, Mexico, and ...

Have you ever wondered about the remarkable events and figures that have shaped our world? While you might be familiar with some historical highlights, there's always more to discover—especially from ...

A large number of American voters are tired of globalization—that much is clear. With Donald Trump calling for the abandonment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (or, more commonly, NAFTA) and ...

Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea professor of history and director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His latest books are Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O Hirschman ...

If globalization represents a ""new historical epoch,"" it must, as this text asserts, have its origins in a history extending much further back than the recent past. With this concise and insightful ...

Introduction : History's changing fortunes -- The rise and fall of cultural theories -- The challenge of globalization -- Rethinking society and the self -- New purposes, new paradigms "With history ...

In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of ...

Since the late 1990s, globalization has seemed to be the great hope for the future. Now this great hope seems to be dimming. Globalization sets up conflict in the area of jobs. Countries around the ...

Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International, 1920. (AP) In 1985, almost two-fifths of the world’s population lived in countries governed by communist parties. From the Baltics to ...