European Economic Security in an Age of Interdependence
Europe leaders and experts are spooked by what Covid and Ukraine war, erm, energy actions have done to their supply sources. What to do?
Read more...Category Archives: Globalization
Why the IEA is Wrong About Peak Oil Demand
Why peak oil, like Godot, keeps not arriving.
Read more...Trump Promises to Deport All Undocumented Immigrants, Resurrecting a 1950s Strategy − But It Didn’t Work Then and Is Less Likely to Do So Now
A clinical look at the viability of Trump’s illegal immigrant deportation plan.
Read more...Tuberculosis Emergency in California After Death in Homeless Shelter Outbreak; Follows Chicago Migrant Shelter Cluster and Earlier IM Doc Anecdata
The rise in tuberculosis cases as an indictment of US public health and immigration policy.
Read more...The Problem of Feeding a Still-Growing Population: Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix
Industrial farming, with its international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle, undermining the feeding of the world.
Read more...Turkiye Suspends All Trade With Israel in Surprise New Blow; Israel Threatens Retaliation
Turkiye is kicking Israel in a weak spot: its economy. How much might this trade freeze hurt?
Read more...After Much Posturing, US Imposes (So Far) Underwhelming Sanctions Against China for Russia Trade
After sending Yellen and Blinken to China to make threats, the Administration has imposed some strikingly weak sanctions
Read more...“The Four Key Reasons Why The U.S. Will Never Stop Targeting Russia’s LNG Sector”
The US has launched an LNG war against Russia. How likely is it to prevail?
Read more...Consumer Boycotts Can Inflict More Pain on Israel-Backing Companies than Divestiture
A look at some of the courses of action to impose costs on Israel and its backers, here, economic costs.
Read more...How Banks and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation and biodiversity loss.
Read more...Making the World Safe for KFC: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Read more...James Galbraith: Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One
Industrial policy, despite recent lip service, is out of favor because doing ambitious things isn’t lucrative enough for the right people.
Read more...China Anti-Espionage Laws Threaten Pharma Supply Chains and Multinational Manufacture in China
New anti-espionage laws in China could make an increasingly tenuous situation for Western drug buyers even worse.
Read more...Citizenship: Concept and Consequences
On different notions of citizenship and their implications.
Read more...5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It
A recent conference in Colombia assessed the extent of land grabs and how to organize against them.
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