The left is in shambles everywhere while hard-right and far-right parties are riding high in polls across the world. I contend that globalization is at the heart of these developments, and thus it is ...

The abandonment of Soviet urban planning approaches, the liberalization of appertaining legislation, confusion under the pressure of business priorities, and the lack of a national urban strategy make ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Drawing widely from sociology, political science, and urban studies, this article introduces the term "primitive globalization" in order to ...

The transnational capitalist class thesis has been caricaturized by some critics as suggesting that contradictions between nation-states have disappeared into a global class-against-class scenario.

If I had started reading the recent column by Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, “Free trade has not made us free,” in the middle of the piece, I would have first come across this sentence: “Our ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The protests at this week’s joint meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, in ...

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. And joining us again from Amherst, Massachusetts, from the PERI institute studio is Gerard Dumenil. He ...

Neoliberal globalization, the economic order which has reigned for the last forty years, has been premised on free trade, with the United States government playing a key role in managing global ...

Xi Jinping shakes hands with Donald Trump before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: The Nation believes that ...

Globalization is not a new phenomenon. As evolutionary anthropologist Peter Turchin noted in a recent blog post, it’s something that happens in pulses, or waves — starting with waves of Afro-Eurasian ...