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

Globalization, as it is known today, has always been a contentious issue. It may not seem that way for people of my age who grew up under unfettered assumptions. The expansion of global trade as the ...

That’s good for businesses, which can communicate efficiently and effectively with partners, suppliers, and customers and manage better supplies, inventories, and distribution network. Local producers ...

One of the key processes in the development of the world economy on the verge of the 20th – 21st centuries is progressive globalization, i.e. a qualitatively new stage in the development of the ...

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 ...

“Nayan Chanda gives us in this volume an excellent account, both erudite and entertaining, of the globalization of human interaction. This book vividly portrays the long and sinuous, yet inexorable ...