The death of globalisation: what we gain, we lose
As the war in Ukraine speeds up the decline of international trade, it is time to start thinking the unthinkable
14 March 2022 - 19:40
At the dawn of the 20th century, Norman Angell famously (or infamously) predicted that the era of global commercial integration had made great power conflict so costly and destructive as to be unthinkable...
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