The Globalist

The world has encountered a series of shocks over the past 15 years. This should lead to more realistic expectations about the timetable for further globalization moves.

The temptation to forecast the end of globalization is large, but very premature.

It is not too early for policy makers to begin examining why globalization did not work out the way its advocates either wished or thought it would.

The coronavirus crisis has become the third great globalization shock of this still relatively new century — after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and the fall of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.