Globalization

Gunning For the World

Once just a club for red-blooded American gun owners, the National Rifle Association has become a savvy global lobby. It presses for gun rights at the United Nations. It assists pro-gun campaigns from Sydney to São Paulo. And it has found that its message -- loving freedom means loving guns -- translates into almost every language.

BY DAVID MORTON | JANUARY 4, 2006

The Most Dangerous Deficit

Why the supply and demand for global public goods could kill you.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JANUARY 4, 2006

Think Again: Airlines

Bankruptcies, terrorism, and high oil prices have rocked the airline industry. Customers complain about bad service and long lines. Are airlines doomed? Not a chance. The global economy cannot function without air travel. But the industry that emerges from the coming shakeout will need a whole new set of wings.

BY GIOVANNI BISIGNANI | JANUARY 4, 2006

How the Game Travels

BY BROOK LARMER | AUGUST 30, 2005

Measuring Globalization

The fifth annual A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index shows that global integration survived the turbulence of the Iraq war, a sharp economic downturn, and the failure of trade talks. Our ranking of political, economic, personal, and technological globalization in 62 countries reveals that the world is still coming together. Find out who's up, who's down, and how they got there.

BY FOREIGN POLICY & A.T. KEARNEY | MAY 5, 2005

A Rival to the American Idol

BY VIVIEN SCHMIDT | MAY 5, 2005

When Gangs Go Bad

BY ANDREW V. PAPACHRISTOS | MARCH 1, 2005

Gang World

Street gangs are proliferating around the world. The United States has unwittingly spurred this phenomenon by deporting tens of thousands of immigrants with criminal records each year. But that only partly explains how gangs went global. Credit also goes to the Internet, where gangs are staking out turf and spreading their culture online. Gang members may have never heard of globalization, but it is making them stronger.

BY ANDREW V. PAPACHRISTOS | MARCH 1, 2005

The Cost of Living Dangerously

Can the global economy absorb the expenses of fighting terrorism?

BY KENNETH ROGOFF | NOVEMBER 1, 2004

European Integration, Unplugged

Most of the 14,000 inhabitants of Elektrenai, Lithuania, voted to join the European Union in May 2003 because membership promised a better life. In some ways, however, their European future looks a lot like their Soviet past, with new bureaucratic masters, new rules, and the revival of a giant power plant that once made their town a model of state socialism. A parable about the promises and pitfalls of European integration.

BY MARTIN RÜCKER | SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

The Brain Trade

FP looks at the global state of Higher Ed.

BY PHILIP G. ALTBACH, ROBERTA MALEE BASSETT | SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

Broadband Marxism

Bridging the digital divide will require poor nations to reverse the privatization of their telecommunications networks.

BY PETER LURIE, CHRIS SPRIGMAN | MARCH 2, 2004

From Normalcy to Lunacy

New Latin American activists embrace the politics of rage, race, and revenge.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | MARCH 1, 2004

Courting the World

U.S. judges must overcome a culture of legal isolationism -- or risk being left behind.

BY ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER | MARCH 1, 2004

How to Be a Free Trade Democrat

The Democratic presidential nominee must defeat misconceptions about globalization in order to forge a new trade policy that will both boost economic growth and protect workers.

BY GENE SPERLING | MARCH 1, 2004

Measuring Globalization: The Days of our Lives

Levels of globalization vs. life expectancies at birth.

MARCH 1, 2004

Measuring Globalization: Economic Reversals, Forward Momentum

The fourth annual A.T. Kearney/FOREIGN POLICY Globalization Index reveals that even as the world economy slowed, Internet growth in poor countries and increased cross-border travel deepened global links. In last year's index, Ireland and Switzerland topped our ranking of political, economic, personal, and technological globalization in 62 countries. Find out who's up, who's down, and who's the most global of them all this year.

MARCH 1, 2004

Soccer Vs. McWorld

What could be more global than soccer? The world's leading professional players and owners pay no mind to national borders, with major teams banking revenues in every currency available on the foreign exchange and billions of fans cheering for their champions in too many languages to count. But in many ways, the beautiful game reveals much more about globalization's limits than its possibilities.

BY FRANKLIN FOER | JANUARY 1, 2004

Prime Numbers: A Loss for Words

Languages dying out in a globalized world.

BY NICHOLAS OSTLER | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

An Indigenous World

How native peoples can turn globalization to their advantage.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Joe Stiglitz's Bum Rap

BY ROBERT HUNTER WADE | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Anti-globalism's Jewish Problem

Anti-Semitism is again on the rise. Why now? Blame the backlash against globalization. As public anxiety grows over lost jobs, shaky economies, and political and social upheaval, the Brownshirt and Birkenstock crowds are seeking solace in conspiracy theories. And in their search for the hidden hand that guides the new world order, modern anxieties are merging with old hatreds and the myths on which they rest.

BY MARK STRAUSS | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Migration's New Payoff

Every day, migrants working in rich countries send money to their families in the developing world. It's just a few hundred dollars here, a few hundred dollars there. But last year, these remittances added up to $80 billion, outstripping foreign aid and ranking as one of the biggest sources of foreign exchange for poor countries. Following a boom in the 1990s, this flow of money is lifting entire countries out of poverty, creating new financial channels, and reshaping international politics.

BY DEVESH KAPUR, JOHN MCHALE | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Mexico's Globophobe Punks

BY SAM QUINONES | SEPTEMBER 1, 2003

Pests and Pestilence

Why humans are more vulnerable than ever to animal-borne diseases.

BY FRED PEARCE | JULY 1, 2003

Wine's New World

When new liquor laws allowed British supermarkets to sell wine in the 1970s, Australian winemakers seized the business opportunity of a lifetime. The story of how a trickle of New World wines became a worldwide flood is also a case study in globalization, starring disgruntled French winemakers, desperate EU bureaucrats, worried Napa Valley tycoons, and Chinese and Japanese arrivistes acquiring a taste for the finer things in life.

BY KYM ANDERSON | MAY 1, 2003

A Taxing Debate

BY VERENA RINGLER | MARCH 1, 2003