Discover when globalization began, from ancient trade routes to modern economic policies, and understand its impact on global trade and cultural exchange.

Processes of contemporary globalization generate a particular landscape of risk. This landscape is shaped by the economic imperatives that lead to the export of hazardous activities, processes and ...

Globalization and the world economy are often portrayed as being one and the same, but other forms of globalization also have significant effects – not all of them benign – on our daily lives. Unless ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Ginsburg is a reporter who writes about international business. A simple Google search of worldwide trends reveals ...

A story in the Washington Post said “20 years ago globalization was pitched as a strategy that would raise all boats in poor and rich countries alike. In the U.S. and Europe consumers would have their ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Members of the League of Nations looking over their shoulders during an assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, 1920. (Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images) Historians often interpret the history of Europe ...

Claims that the current age is one of secularization are much exaggerated; even amid globalization, religion enjoys “a luxurious pluralism,” writes Peter L. Berger, a professor of sociology and ...