What is the future of globalization and its impact on world civilization? What issues remain to be resolved, and what are the likely implications...

Discussions of globalization as a policy choice completely ignore the very natural transitions
that occurred once the bipolar world structure of the Cold War gave way to the more
individualized aspirations of nations and movements.  Globalization was part of the evolution of
international affairs that resulted from the absence of superpower intrigue and the development
and proliferation of information technologies, combined with the removal of political barriers
to trade in large sections of the industrialized world.  While the removal of barriers to trade
€“ and the radical opening of borders within the European Union €“ was certainly a deliberate
movement that facilitated the advance of globalization, however, international trade has been
given too much credit for a development that was occurring anyway.  Additionally, the downsides
to globalization are largely concentrated in regions that were not integral to the free trade
movement that is credited with spurring...