Last week, discussing the vagaries of international commerce in a time of pandemic, war and the climate emergency, I’m afraid I used the words “globalism” and “globalization” fairly interchangeably.

A conversation with Tara Zahra about the early-20th-century origins of globalism, how debates over a globalized world have morphed across a century, and her new book, Against the World. Members of the ...

Dr. Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and has written extensively about globalization’s first collapse. April 5, 2025 Before World War I, globalization was at a high point.

Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with guests with very different opinions on the promise, and fate, of Globalization. Columbia University’s Jagdish Bhagwati, author of the new book In Defense of ...

When the historian Tara Zahra began to write her book “Against the World,” she tells us, Donald Trump had just been elected president, and the Brits had bolted from the European Union in a vote for ...

For years, government officials, business school professors, and executives have espoused the benefits of globalization, supporting their arguments with sound evidence. For example, the United Nations ...