Globalization, thought to be the wave of the future not long ago, is now in retreat before the nationalist agenda of Donald Trump in the US, Boris Johnson in the UK, and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, writes columnist Bill Moloney.
Nation-states are coming to the fore over slow-moving multilateral bureaucracies such as the EU and WHO as the world fights Covid-19, observes correspondent Bill Moloney
Can national sovereignty survive in the rapidly globalizing 21st century? Contributor Bill Moloney sees a roadmap in the work of two little-known scholars, Dani Rodrik and Christophe Guilluy.
Donald Trump in Washington and Emmanuel Macron in Paris gained their respective presidencies by reading the political disruptions of globalization more shrewdly than most leaders in the West, writes contributor Bill Moloney—but since taking power, their policies and polling have diverged sharply.
Across the West, once-powerful socialist parties are hemorrhaging voters as the working class looks elsewhere for shelter from the harsh winds of globalization, a trend Bernie Sanders can’t wish away, says contributor Bill Moloney