Globalization

The IMF Strikes Back

Slammed by anti-globalist protesters, developing-country politicians, and Nobel Prize–winning economists, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become Global Scapegoat Number One. But IMF economists are not evil, nor are they invariably wrong. It’s time to set the record straight and focus on more pressing economic debates, such as how best to promote global growth and financial stability.

BY KENNETH ROGOFF | JANUARY 1, 2003

Five Wars of Globalization

The illegal trade in drugs, arms, intellectual property, people, and money is booming. Like the war on terrorism, the fight to control these illicit markets pits governments against agile, stateless, and resourceful networks empowered by globalization. Governments will continue to lose these wars until they adopt new strategies to deal with a larger, unprecedented struggle that now shapes the world as much as confrontations between nation-states once did.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JANUARY 1, 2003

Measuring Globalization: Who's Up, Who's Down?

Two years ago, we created an index that measures a country's global links, from foreign direct investment to international travel, telephone traffic, and Internet servers. For the last two years, Singapore and Ireland have topped our ranking of political, economic, and technological integration in 62 countries. Find out who was the most global of all and how September 11 affected global integration in the 2003 A.T. Kearney/FOREIGN POLICY Magazine Globalization Index.

JANUARY 1, 2003

Peru's Globalization Problem

BY RAFO LEÓN | NOVEMBER 1, 2002

Closer Than You Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2002

Islam's Medieval Outposts

For centuries, young men have gathered at Islamic seminaries to escape Western influences and quietly study Islamic texts that have been handed down unchanged through the ages. But over the last two decades, revolution, Great Power politics, and poverty have combined to give the fundamentalist teachings at some of these madrasas a violent twist. And now, in one of globalization's deadlier ironies, these "universities of jihad" are spreading their medieval theology worldwide.

BY HUSAIN HAQQANI | NOVEMBER 1, 2002

Battling Barbarism

BY WALDEN BELLO | SEPTEMBER 1, 2002

Problems Without Passports

BY KOFI A. ANNAN | SEPTEMBER 1, 2002

The Roaring 1890s

SEPTEMBER 1, 2002

Post-Terror Surprises

One consequence of September 11 is the emergence of a more sobering, less naive understanding of globalization.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | SEPTEMBER 1, 2002

The New Diaspora

New links between émigrés and their home countries can become a powerful force for economic development.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JULY 1, 2002

France's Political Whodunit

J'accuse globalization.

BY SOPHIE MEUNIER | JULY 1, 2002

Endangered Humans

How global land conservation efforts are creating a growing class of invisible refugees.

BY CHARLES C. GEISLER | MAY 1, 2002

That Silly Inequality Debate

BY NANCY BIRDSALL | MAY 1, 2002

The Dependent Colossus

Although globalization today reinforces American power, over time it promises to have the opposite effect.

BY JOSEPH S. NYE JR. | MARCH 1, 2002

Debate: States of Discord

The worldviews of Thomas Friedman and Robert Kaplan are about as different as a modem and a bayonet. No surprise, then, that these two influential commentators diverged sharply over the future of the nation-state at a recent debate in Washington, D.C. Will globalization ultimately strengthen or destroy the state? Will it lead to more democracies or more revolutions? And does transnational terrorism signal the end -- or the triumph -- of global integration? Pick your champion and pull up a chair.

BY THOMAS FRIEDMAN, ROBERT KAPLAN | MARCH 1, 2002

Globalization's Last Hurrah?

The shock of terrorist attacks and a worldwide economic slowdown have prompted many observers to declare globalization's end. But any recent reversals in global integration must be measured against the remarkable advances of 2000. The second annual A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index, which ranks the 20 most global nations, also sheds light on a crucial question: Has globalization hit a bump in the road, or is it on the verge of a fundamental shift?

JANUARY 1, 2002

The Other Evil

The war on terrorism won't succeed without a war on poverty.

BY STROBE TALBOTT | NOVEMBER 1, 2001

Advice for Anarchists

Who is blocking globalization, the protesters or the summiteers?

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Vox Americani

What do Americans want? The U.S. public's view of the world has long been a study in what seem like maddening contradictions, at times both altruistic and paranoid, protectionist and entrepreneurial, and isolationist and multilateralist. Like many other analysts, FP's editors have worn deep furrows into our brows trying to discern how Americans see the world and their place in it. So we invited Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland and author of several groundbreaking studies of U.S. public opinion, to "interview" the American people on the most pressing global issues of the day. He created a composite of average Americans -- a virtual John/Jane Q. Public -- derived from the majority positions in extensive polling data and using the kind of language he commonly hears in focus groups. (An annotated version of this interview can be found at www.foreignpolicy.com with footnotes citing poll questions and data.) As it turns out, Americans defy simple labels, largely because they refuse to submit to simplistic choices.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Economistes Sans Frontières

BY CARLOS LOZADA | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Think Again: The Globalization Backlash

Lost your job? Your cultural identity? Your democratic rights? Your clean air and water? Blame globalization -- everyone else does. From Seattle to Copenhagen and Washington, D.C., to Genoa, protesters of all stripes and creeds have turned globalization into a shorthand for many of the world's ills. But judging by the widespread misconceptions about the true consequences of the integration of markets, politics, and cultures, a smaller world is not necessarily a smarter one.

BY JOHN MICKLETHWAIT, ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Britain's Lonely Left

BY JOHN LLOYD | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Will Globalization Go Bankrupt?

Global integration is driven not by politics or the Internet or the World Trade Organization or even -- believe it or not -- McDonald's. No, throughout history, globalization has been driven primarily by monetary expansions. Credit booms spark periods of economic integration, while credit contractions quickly squelch them. Is today's world on the verge of another globalization bust?

BY MICHAEL PETTIS | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

'Til Technology Do Us Part

BY GEETA RAO GUPTA | JULY 1, 2001

Globalization Without a Net

Why national governments cannot integrate their countries into the global economy and protect the poor at the same time.

BY VITO TANZI | JULY 1, 2001

Military Deglobalization?

Long-distance military interdependence is taking new forms.

BY JOSEPH S. NYE JR. | JANUARY 1, 2001

The Culture of Liberty

Cries of Western cultural hegemony are as common as they are misguided. In reality, globalization does not suffocate local cultures but rather liberates them from the ideological conformity of nationalism.

BY MARIO VARGAS LLOSA | JANUARY 1, 2001

Measuring Globalization

Everyone talks about globalization, but no one has tried to measure its extent…at least not until now. The A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index™ dissects the complex forces driving the integration of ideas, people, and economies worldwide. Which countries have become the most global? Are they more unequal? Or more corrupt?

JANUARY 1, 2001