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Research shows that when people feel insecure and anxious they become more concerned with identity values such as nationalism, status and success.
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Based on the nostalgic yearning for an imaginary past, Kiwiana should be quietly retired in the face of massive social and political change.
The Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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South African customary law should be understood from the perspective of dissonance between the past and the present.
Erosion damage caused by Hurricane Hanna is seen along the Fisher border wall, a privately funded border fence, along the Rio Grande River near Mission, Texas, on July 30, 2020.
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As a zoonotic virus, COVID-19 is itself a symptom of human-influenced climate change. It is also indicative of the humanitarian impact of future environmental crises.
Wuilber Machaca, a quinoa farmer who lives in the Aymara community of Huancarani in Peru’s Puno region.
As the twin crises of climate change and Covid-19 continue to unfold, a traditional crop can help South American communities preserve biodiversity and their heritage.
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As world trade breaks down into a patchwork of regional blocs, it raises questions about the future of global multinationals.
Italian police seize the largest ever haul of speed just south of Naples on July 1.
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Illicit and legitimate trade are closely connected, so how come one seems to be rising while the other has plunged?
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Coronavirus has revealed the extreme plight of Bangladeshi factory workers.
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The Indian Ocean provides a new way of looking at world history that has been dominated by European accounts.
The Chinese army marches past the entrance to the Forbidden City on the occasion of the 2020 session of the National People’s Congress on May 22 in Beijing.
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This week, our experts are looking at the major trends in post-crisis globalisation.
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With half the global workforce facing job loss, massive stimulus packages are needed to revive emerging economies and reduce mass unemployment, poverty and starvation.
Slowing down…
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Tumbling global trade with China proves no country or sector is an island.
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The response of individual nations to coronavirus has largely been ad hoc, piecemeal and in many cases, lethally ineffective – just like climate action.
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Through archaeological studies of architecture, excavated trade goods, and ecofacts we can trace globalisation back thousands of years.
The latest consignment.
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Globalisation does not look so clever when everyone wants the same medical equipment.
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The current pandemic could be the undoing of globalisation if countries fail to cooperate and choose isolationism over a common purpose.
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The same technological forces that make the Wuhan outbreak a global concern are also key to managing the crisis response.
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Even though the way we access pop music has changed and gone digital, hitmakers lag behind other industries in terms of globalisation.
Evidence should inform policies aimed at realising the benefits of the creative economy.
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Trade in cultural goods and services offers emerging markets an opportunity to benefit from their cultural capital and globalisation.
Democracy needs to apply to our economies, as well as our politics.
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Unlike older visions of economic democracy which started with class or the collective, the starting point now should be the individual