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Pull of Global Economy Increases Latin America-Africa Engagement

Manuel Orozco and Julia Yansura January 26, 2015
Africa and Latin America are opening new trade and diplomatic relations, particularly in four key countries of Brazil, Mexico, Cuba and South Africa. Compared with their exports to the northern hemisphere, the exchange of goods between Latin American and African countries remains small, around 3 percent. However, trade between the two continents grew 75 percent between 2005 and 2012, and new...

Globalization Is in Peril, Bankers Say

Peter Coy December 10, 2014
The Institute of International Finance warns about restricted flows for capital in a report "Financial Globalization: Maximizing Benefits, Containing Risks." The report analyzes “the slowdown of cross-border flows and raises concerns that while the recent regulatory agenda should help to ensure a more stable and secure financial system, the extensive benefits from cross-border flows...

Map of International Phone Calls Explains Globalization

Tim Fernholz November 12, 2014
International phone calls were once limited to wealthy nations. Shipper DHL has released its third edition of global connectedness index that tracks all manner of exchanges between countries, describing it as detailed analysis of the state of globalization. Tim Fernholz focuses on phone calls for Quartz and reports that growing diasporas of workers and dropping phone rates are driving global...

Global Problem Solving Without the Globaloney

Pankaj Ghemawat October 29, 2014
Many challenges, like climate change, are global in scale, but citizens often have an exaggerated sense of other global connections, including internet use and immigration. Pankaj Ghemawat refers to outsized estimates as globaloney: “It obscures the potential gains from additional globalization, swells fears about its adverse consequences, and causes companies to adopt strategies of ‘bigger and...

American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist

David Edwards October 23, 2014
Education must prepare students for a fast-changing world, argues David Edwards for Wired. The world must handle 2 billion more people over the next 20 years along with a stressed food supply and climate change. “The many rich and varied human cultures of the earth will continue to mix, more rapidly than they ever have, through mass population movements and unprecedented information exchange, and...

Putin, ISIS, Ebola: How Globalization Harms Us More Than Helps

Melik Kaylan October 16, 2014
Upheaval over geopolitical rivalries, religious strife and disease raises questions as to whether greater interconnectedness is destabilizing the world. Melik Kaylan, writing for Forbes, suggests that Russia’s President Putin is at the helm of a worldwide reaction against globalization: “The multicultural poly-sexual utopia without borders that American-style globalism sells as a matter of...

New Theater of Cruelty: Beheadings Demand Civilization’s Response

Joji Sakurai October 9, 2014
Islamic State extremists burst forth on the world scene with brutal acts, with all the absurd petulance of an angry, bullying yet powerless adolescent desperate for attention. In an era of rapid communications, images and messages spread instantly. The depraved put on a performance – a new theater of cruelty – perverting a centuries-old religion, and globalization ensures instant judgment....