globalization

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  4/27/2022
  

  Palm Oil is Colonialism's Continuing Nightmare

  by Max Haiven

  The extraction and trade in palm oil in west Africa has been at the center of two centuries of exploitation and violence, which stands to get worse as the Ukraine war threatens the world supply of competing sunflower oil. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/7/2022
  

  Bill Clinton Defends Handling of Post-Soviet Russia

  "The failure of Russian democracy, and its turn to revanchism, was not catalyzed in Brussels at NATO headquarters. It was decided in Moscow by Putin."

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  3/11/2022
  

  We're Talking about Climate Change with Outdated Colonial Language

  by Priya Satia

  The dominant climate activist theme of sacrificing in the present to protect the future is rooted in the intellectual history of economics which has driven the profligate consumption and gross inequality that threatens the planet. 

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• SOURCE: The Economist
  3/4/2022
  

  Russian Sanctions a "Watershed" Moment in Global Economic History

  by Nicholas Mulder

  "Sanctions are no longer scalpel-like instruments that exploit globalisation. At their current scale, they are a tempest that will change the nature of globalisation itself in major ways."

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• 12/19/2021
  

  Biden's Virtual Summit Is Only the Beginning of Securing Democracy

  by Leon Fink

  Biden's virtual "Summit for Democracy" was not without faults, but it made important nods toward the idea that the power, health and security of labor in the global economy is a vital part of functioning democracy. More needs to be done. 

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• 11/21/2021
  

  To Grasp Geopolitical Transformations, Don't Forget to Look at the Map

  by Tim Marshall

  Historians and thinkers in other fields could benefit from a greater attention to geography and a greater understanding of how ideas, politics and identities are anchored to the physical space of the earth. 

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• 10/3/2021
  

  Ending COVID in Our Lifetimes Requires Seeing the Bonds of Shared Humanity

  by Michael Hogan

  "In the end, like those who sought to escape the plague in Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death,” we are all vulnerable and at risk if we do not look to see that our fellow human beings both at home and abroad are safeguarded as well."

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• SOURCE: Asia Sentinel
  9/7/2021
  

  It isn't Just the Taliban that Ousted Americans from Asia: The End of Yale-NUS

  by Jim Sleeper

  "A deeper reason for Singapore’s expulsion of Yale is the same one that’s been given to justify America’s expulsion from Afghanistan: For all its glitter and wealth-generating capacity, American liberal capitalism has been undermining itself with manic speed, along with the civic-republican institutions, beliefs, and liberal education that have given the system its legitimacy."

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  4/2/2021
  

  The World the Suez Canal Made

  by Aaron Jakes

  "The purpose of the Suez Canal, from the perspective of both the Egyptian state and its European investors, was not simply to render the world more interconnected and international transport more efficient, but to extract transit fees from the ships passing through it."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/29/2021
  

  The History Of The Suez Canal

  The Suez Canal, according to Zachary Karabell, has been a nexus for past great power conflicts, anticolonialist struggle, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Now it shows the vulnerability of global capitalism's supply chain infrastructure. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  3/24/2021
  

  The Immovable AMLO

  by Humberto Beck, Carlos Bravo Regidor and Patrick Iber

  "AMLO continues to decry the faults of neoliberalism, but his government is, for the most part, failing to build an effective alternative to it."

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• SOURCE: University of California Press
  2/9/2021
  

  Who Gets to Govern the Global Economy?

  by Christy Thornton

  Johns Hopkins Latin Americanist Christy Thornton describes her book "Revolution In Development" and its contribution to understanding how Mexican officials fought against dismissive treatment from the world's leading economic powers as they sought a voice in shaping the international economic order. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  1/26/2021
  

  How Mexico Reshaped the Global Economy: Interview With Christy Thornton

  The Mexican government demanded a program of economic reparations to the developing world, but the system of international aid and trade that emerged worsened exploitation. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  11/10/2020
  

  The Prosperity Hoax

  A 2020 report on global poverty suggests that the problem is getting worse, directly attacking the methodologies the World Bank has used for decades to justify global capitalism as an anti-poverty program. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2020
  

  Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Review)

  An attack by the pirate Henry Every on a ship owned by the Grand Mughal of India jeopardized the toehold the British East India Company had gained in India. The British government's response helped launch imperial rule. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/15/2020
  

  This Is Not the Time to Let the Market Decide

  by Jamie Martin

  When it comes to crucial medical supplies, cooperation, not competition, will save lives. History shows that it works.

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• SOURCE: Zocalo Public Square
  3/29/2020
  

  When Americans Fell in Love with The Ideal of ‘One World’

  by Samuel Zipp

  In 1943, failed presidential candidate Wendell Willkie advanced a strikingly anti-racist, anti-colonial plan to bring the planet together.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/27/2020
  

  Coronavirus Shows the Perils and Promise of Globalization

  by Samuel Zipp

  During the first age of “America First” in the 1940s, Wendell Wilkie's campaign challenged Americans to confront a discomfiting idea: Our lives depend on the well-being of many millions across the world.

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• SOURCE: NCBI
  Accessed 2/26/20
  

  The History of the Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control

  The current era of globalization is more properly viewed as an intensification of trends that have occurred throughout history. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-25-18
  

  Historian Erik Loomis makes the case for a federal jobs guarantee

  by Erik Loomis

  Resurrecting Humphrey-Hawkins can help pre-empt a technology crisis and even future labor dislocation from globalization.