Globalization

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What Is Globalization?

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Understand the benefits and challenges of our increasingly interconnected world.

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Globalization and the Great Recession

Understand how our interconnected global finance system helped spread the financial contagion of 2008.

24 percent

of the world economy was made up by the U.S. economy in 2015. In 1960, the U.S. share was almost 40 percent.

Source: World Bank

It Takes a Village to Make Your Medicine

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Follow the global supply chain across borders and into your pill bottle.

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Trains, Planes, and Shipping Containers

See how three innovations shaped how people and goods move around the modern world.

3.441 billion people

traveled via airplane in 2015—an increase of more than 11 times from 310 million in 1970.

Source: World Bank

Six Essential International Organizations

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Understand how countries group themselves in an interconnected world.

Hitting Home: When Global Becomes Local

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Read about how actions in one part of the world often affect outcomes in another.

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How Globalization Affects What’s for Brunch

Learn why globalization's effects can appear where you least expect them.

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Big in China: Globalization and International Cinema

Explore Hollywood’s relationship with the Chinese market.

TIMELINE 1450-2011

The History of Communications

Explore how changes in technology affect global communications.

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Internet Use Around the World

Understand just how much internet use has increased in the twenty-first century.

“Harry Potter” and the Globalization of Culture

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Take a look at how an international hit had to adapt to different countries.

How Globalization Affects You

Explore why globalization is one of the defining realities of modern existence.

Source: Antony Njuguna/Reuters

Our Love of ‘All Natural’ Is Causing a Vanilla Shortage

by Dan Charles of NPR June 16, 2017

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

by Sam Riches of the New Yorker October 07, 2013

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

by James Fallows of the Atlantic September 04, 2016

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

by Tsedal Neeley of Harvard Business Review May 01, 2012

Multinational companies are adopting English as a common language in an age of globalization, but their efforts can hit snags.