As trade officials gather on the calm shores of Lake Geneva for the World Trade Organization’s long-delayed 12th ministerial conference, a perfect storm is brewing in the multilateral trading system.

During the past 10 years, there have been calls for deglobalization and decoupling as a means to curb unbalanced trade, rein in immigration, and mend inequalities of assets and wealth. Some consider ...

The overuse of analogies from the past is the bane of reasonable historians, and perhaps no parallels are more clichéd than ones comparing current events to those of the 1930s. The problem with such ...

Mohamed El-Erian foresees an era of deglobalization with less dynamic productivity and higher industrial concentration. China's change to the recycling industry is a good example of how ...

In 2016, significant votes in the U.S. and UK, driven partly by immigration and global engagement issues, marked a pivotal moment. The U.S. election saw Donald Trump's victory with his "America first" ...

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Recently, a trend toward deglobalization has been taken as a given, prompted by the rise of protectionism, nativism, and a series of highly costly supply chain and market access disruptions. However, ...

For many companies these days – in the U.S. and abroad – there is peace and prosperity to be found in moving their operations back to their home countries. And for investors, the opportunity to invest ...

Increasing global interconnection – growing cross-border flows of people, goods, energy, emails, television and radio signals, data, drugs, terrorists, weapons, carbon dioxide, food, dollars, and, of ...

Current geopolitical changes—such as the war in Ukraine, the corona pandemic and greenhouse gas emission targets—have reignited discussions about the utility of globalization. Yet cross-border trade ...

The Russia-Ukraine War has thrust the concept of “deglobalization” into the economic and geopolitical conversation. Crypto analysts say the trend could ultimately have a major effect on the bitcoin ...