Tag: globalization
Why ‘acting locally’ is impossible in an interconnected world
Jennifer M. Bernstein, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Like many Americans, I worry about the state of the...
Foreign language classes becoming more scarce
Kathleen Stein-Smith, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Of all the skills that a person could have in today’s globalized world, few serve individuals – and the...
Millennials are so over US domination of world affairs
Bruce Jentleson, Duke University
Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996, see America’s role in the 21st century world in ways that, as a...
Rules-based trade made the world rich. Trump’s policies may make it...
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
Nations sell goods and services to each other because this exchange is generally mutually beneficial.
It’s easy to understand...
What the Industrial Revolution really tells us about the future of...
Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
As automation and artificial intelligence technologies improve, many people worry about the future of work. If millions of human workers...
Rise in globalism doesn’t mean the end for nationalists
A. Burcu Bayram, University of Arkansas
Are you more of a nationalist or a cosmopolitan? Or both?
Recent events suggest that a nationalist backlash to globalization...
What China’s ‘export machine’ can teach Trump about globalization
Penelope B. Prime, Georgia State University
Chinese goods seem to be everywhere these days.
Consider this: At the Olympics in Rio this summer, Chinese companies...
Why we have globalization to thank for Thanksgiving
Farok J. Contractor, Rutgers University
As Americans sit down to their Thanksgiving Day feasts, some may recall the story of the “Pilgrim Fathers” who founded...