A model of a giant snake is held aloft by protesters at an anti-globalisation rally in Berlin Free trade and globalisation seem to be under siege from a broad and loud range of opponents. For decades ...

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LARGE AND sustained increases in the cross-border flow of goods, money, ideas and people have been the most important factor in world affairs for the past three decades. They have reshaped relations ...

William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World.

The new rallying cry for the anti-capitalists is "globalisation". And you can see their point. Even people who have zero sympathy for the May Day protesters ­ who see them as the spoilt children of ...

Just over three decades ago, the Cold War ended and the former Soviet-bloc countries began their transitions to market economies, which enabled them to engage with the rest of the global economy. The ...

GLOBALISATION has made the planet more equal. As communication gets cheaper and transport gets faster, developing countries have closed the gap with their rich-world counterparts. But within many ...

The ripple effects of the Russo-Ukrainian war are spreading and intensifying. Their impact is being felt in almost every corner of the globe, revealing an international system under duress. The US-led ...

Globalisation has “come to an end” in the wake of new tariffs imposed by the US, a Treasury minister has suggested. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones told the BBC that Britain needs to be ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Globalisation is not just about trade and technology. It is also about politics. Political change, above all the ...

Not so long ago, the argument over globalisation was seen as done and dusted—by parties of the left as much as of the right. Tony Blair’s 2005 Labour conference speech gives a flavour of the time. “I ...