Just as climate change worsens existing vulnerabilities such as food poverty and water shortages, trade amplifies weaknesses in the social fabric. In regions where people have fallen behind ...

I would like to explore some rather interesting data buried deep in the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Economic and Social Trends 2026 report: an estimated 15.3 per cent of jobs worldwide ...

Kenneth Thomas, the Middle Class Political Economist, has a series on whether Globalisation benefits the (American) middle class. His answer is that generally it doesn't, a conclusion that I disagree ...

Pakistan is now an example of hybrid society as a result of globalisation, trying to find a balance between Islamisation and modernism Advances in technology, such as mobile phones, aero planes and ...

Amid resurgent nationalism and rising global friction, globalisation has moved from consensus to contention, now a central fault line in geopolitics. Once seen as the engine of progress, economic ...

In recent years the world has been rocked by unforeseen and unimaginable global catastrophes. The coronavirus pandemic caused disruptions to global economies as countries closed their borders. Markets ...

The significance of the trade war between China and the US goes well beyond the impact of tit-for-tat tariffs, or which of two self-styled strongmen wins the bragging rights. As was the case in the ...

Millions around the globe may have taken to the streets in recent years to protest against the impact of globalisation on their jobs and communities - but this backlash is only likely to grow as ...

The Treaty of Westphalia (1648) was signed by almost all European states to end the Eighty Years’ War and the Thirty Years’ War. These wars collectively consumed over 10 million European lives. The ...

Globalisation has suffered a severe setback as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cross-border capital flows never fully recovered from the global financial crisis. This latest shock first hit the ...

The denizens of Davos reassured themselves that free trade would go on in the Trump era, but they had for years done little about the losers such a system creates His speech was like one normally ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer, a professor of globalisation and development at Oxford university, is co-author of ‘Terra Incognita ...