Consider two aspects of globalization: first, planes exploding as they slam into the World Trade Center, and second, the emission of carbon dioxide from the exhaust of gas-guzzling sport-utility ...

For most people, globalization has for decades been another name for across-the-board liberalization. Starting mainly in the 1980s, governments allowed goods, services, capital, and data to move ...

Americans have profoundly mixed feelings about globalization. They generally support it in the abstract -- and, as befits the national character, most people are optimistic for the country as a whole.

Jared Diamond, a geographer at UCLA, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies." E-mail: [email protected]. We tend to think of ...

The debate about globalization sparked by the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in December 1999 has become "polarized and polemical to a degree that is unhelpful," Princeton bioethicist ...

Globalization—the process through which an increasingly free flow of ideas, people, goods, services, and capital leads to the integration of economies and societies—has brought rising prosperity to ...

Globalization has been occurring at least since the European expansion of the sixteenth century, when coffee, tea, sugar, potatoes, corn, and other products from distant lands radically altered ...

This course examines both historical and contemporary aspects of globalization, global economic development, the global financial system, and the global environment. How did globalism start? Have ...

Globalization is not merely a question of class or privilege, argues a group of feminist scholars, but a question of gender as well. While the current anti-globalization movement has largely ignored ...