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India and China Take Different Roads to World Leadership – Part I

Shyam Saran November 1, 2010
Many anticipate China and India, with their rapid rise to power through globalization, to adopt global leadership roles. Yet expectations that either nation will lead the way in resolving global problems may be too high and too premature, suggests this YaleGlobal series. Historically a crossroads of culture, India adapts to globalization's modern forms, explains Shyam Saran, former foreign...

Chilean Rescue Offers Lesson in Globalization

Susan Froetschel October 18, 2010
Global media united in covering the successful rescue of 33 miners, trapped since early August. Chile’s president and major mining companies quickly took charge over a small, near-bankrupt mining company, transforming the rescue into an international competition of sorts. The media reports highlighted unusual international collaboration and exposed the public to grueling work conditions for...

When Globalization Falls Short

Nayan Chanda October 4, 2010
History shows that conflict among trade partners is not impossible. That a minor boating mishap threatens economic ties between two global powers does not bode well for increasing interconnectedness, explains YaleGlobal Editor Nayan Chanda in an essay for the Times of India. Nationalistic anger stirs over a group of tiny islands in the East China Sea claimed by Japan and China. With reports of...

Another New World Order

Kevin Lynch September 17, 2010
This century’s diverse series of threats – from the Y2K computer glitch to terrorist attacks, war, financial meltdowns and environmental degradation – have both raised expectations and eroded faith in government leadership, observes Kevin Lynch for the Globe & Mail. He lists four structural trends driving a new world order: globalization, demographics, the information revolution and climate...

US Launched Corporate Globalization and First to End It

Joe Costello September 1, 2010
Globalization, people and ideas mixing through immigration and trade, has enriched the US but also added to complications. “America has been as successful, more so than most, using the principles and practices of this republic's founding, to mix the nationalities of Europe and more fitfully other peoples from across the planet into a relatively healthy concoction,” explains Joe Costello,...

China Discovers World Expo Is No Olympics

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom August 17, 2010
After the dazzling 2008 Olympics, China had hoped to draw attention once again with the World Expo, exceeding previous World’s Fair records with visiting nations, exhibitions and attendance. But even before the Expo, Shanghai and many other cities around the globe already carry significant international cachet, displaying futuristic trends, or what Maura Elizabeth Cunningham and Jeffrey N....

Law and Globalization: Not Entirely Free, Your Honor

August 17, 2010
As barriers to international trade crumble, the legal profession does not hurry to follow the trend. One explanation of the profession’s relative imperviousness to foreign influence is separate legal traditions: Some countries practice English common law while others follow civil law or a mix of systems. Complex regulations on practice vary by nation, sometimes devised “to protect the profession...