The growing interconnectedness of the world has both benefits and drawbacks.
What Is Globalization?
Understand the benefits and challenges of our increasingly interconnected world.
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It Takes a Village to Make Your Medicine
Follow the global supply chain across borders and into your pill bottle.
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Trains, Planes, and Shipping Containers
Three innovations shaped how people and goods move around the world today.
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Six Essential International Organizations You Need to Know
Look at the most prominent international governmental organizations tackling the world’s biggest issues.
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Hitting Home: When Global Becomes Local
Actions in one part of the world often affect outcomes in another.
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How Globalization Affects What’s for Brunch
Globalization’s effects can appear where you least expect them—including on your plate.
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Big in China: The Global Market for Hollywood Movies
Hollywood’s relationship with the Chinese market—and its gatekeepers, Chinese government censors—is changing the way movies are made and promoted.
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Two Hundred Years of Global Communications
From the printing press to Instagram, technological advances shape how people communicate.
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How Globalization Affects You
Explore why globalization is one of the defining realities of modern existence.
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Our Love of ‘All Natural’ Is Causing a Vanilla Shortage
The high demand for natural vanilla is good news for vanilla farmers in countries like Madagascar, but it is bad news for bakers who have to foot the bill.
Source: Benny Sieu/Reuters
Basketball and Globalization
As the dominance of American culture declines around the globe, the NBA is looking overseas for opportunities for growth.
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The World Comes to a Tiny Town: Eastport’s Lessons in Globalization
A small American town’s role as a shipping center for pregnant cows and wood products connects it to the rest of the world.
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Global Business Speaks English
Multinational companies are adopting English as a common language in an age of globalization, but their efforts can hit snags.
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In an era of growing resistance to globalization, policymakers must work to protect its benefits and fix its flaws.
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Fighting Bangladesh’s Sweatshops
Bangladesh's garment workers want higher wages. But they face competition from workers in other nations for the business of international apparel brands.
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