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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.
As world trade breaks down into a patchwork of regional blocs, it raises questions about the future of global multinationals.
Illicit and legitimate trade are closely connected, so how come one seems to be rising while the other has plunged?
Coronavirus has revealed the extreme plight of Bangladeshi factory workers.
The Indian Ocean provides a new way of looking at world history that has been dominated by European accounts.
This week, our experts are looking at the major trends in post-crisis globalisation.
With half the global workforce facing job loss, massive stimulus packages are needed to revive emerging economies and reduce mass unemployment, poverty and starvation.
Tumbling global trade with China proves no country or sector is an island.
The response of individual nations to coronavirus has largely been ad hoc, piecemeal and in many cases, lethally ineffective – just like climate action.
Through archaeological studies of architecture, excavated trade goods, and ecofacts we can trace globalisation back thousands of years.
Globalisation does not look so clever when everyone wants the same medical equipment.
The current pandemic could be the undoing of globalisation if countries fail to cooperate and choose isolationism over a common purpose.
The same technological forces that make the Wuhan outbreak a global concern are also key to managing the crisis response.
Even though the way we access pop music has changed and gone digital, hitmakers lag behind other industries in terms of globalisation.
Trade in cultural goods and services offers emerging markets an opportunity to benefit from their cultural capital and globalisation.
Unlike older visions of economic democracy which started with class or the collective, the starting point now should be the individual
The pipeline for new antibiotics is broken. It is time to think outside the box.
Malawi must change its diplomatic approach and align its national interests with Mozambique's
The story of how human eggs became an integral part of a multi-billion dollar global fertility industry starts in a unlikely place: the sex lives of farm animals.
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Reader in International Business, University of Bristol
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Emeritus Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Senior Visiting Fellow, City, University of London
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Full Professor of Political Economy, University of Pretoria
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
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Director & Research Fellow, University of Pretoria
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Research Associate, Centre for Indian Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Head of Politics, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW
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