What Is Globalization?
Understand the benefits and challenges of our increasingly interconnected world.
It Takes a Village to Make Your Medicine
Follow the global supply chain across borders and into your pill bottle.
Trains, Planes, and Shipping Containers
Three innovations shaped how people and goods move around the world today.
Six Essential International Organizations You Need to Know
Look at the most prominent international governmental organizations tackling the world’s biggest issues.
Hitting Home: When Global Becomes Local
Actions in one part of the world often affect outcomes in another.
How Globalization Affects What’s for Brunch
Globalization’s effects can appear where you least expect them—including on your plate.
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.
Two Hundred Years of Global Communications
From the printing press to Instagram, technological advances shape how people communicate.
Human Trafficking in the Global Era
Understand the various forms of human trafficking, including forced labor, forced marriage, and forced organ removal.
How Globalization Affects You
Source: Antony Njuguna/Reuters
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.
Source: Ken Gallager via Wikimedia Commons under GFDL
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.
Source: Luke MacGregor/Reuters
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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