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Globalization can be partly responsible for the current global economic crisis. Case studies of Thailand and the Arab nations' view of globalization show that globalization is a threat to culture and religion, and it harms indigenous people groups while multinational corporations profit from it.
The book puts forward a capitalist peace theory, first published as an opinion piece in The New York Times in December 1996, called the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention; although slightly tongue-in-cheek, [1] it states: No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other. [2]
In the post-World War II period, states sacrificed globalization while embracing democracy at home and national autonomy. [7] The trilemma suggests that the backlash against globalization in the last few decades is rooted in a desire to reclaim democracy and national autonomy, even if it undermines economic integration. [7]
Globalization and Its Discontents is a book published in 2002 by the 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz. The title is a reference to Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. The book draws on Stiglitz's personal experience as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Bill Clinton from 1993 and chief economist at the World Bank from
Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate is a 2002 book by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein and editor Debra Ann Levy. The book is a collection of newspaper articles, mostly from The Globe and Mail, with a few magazine articles from The Nation and speech transcripts.
Barron's senior managing editor Lauren Rublin interviews TS Lombard's Freya Beamish and Guggenheim Partners CIO Scott Minerd about the impact of deglobalization on countries, companies, and investors.
Geopolitical economy is a contemporary Marxist approach to understanding the capitalist world historically. [1] It was proposed by Radhika Desai in her Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire [2] as a critique of contemporary mainstream theories of International political economy (IPE) and International relations (IR). [3]
The authors take the thesis that prior to World War I, the world effectively lived in a state of globalization, which they term the First Era of Globalization.The authors define globalization as periods in which free markets predominate and countries place few, if any, limits on exports, immigration, imports, or information exchanges.