Globalisation is widely blamed for the woes of the Western lower middle classes. Jobs have gone to China, and wages have been pushed down by competition from immigrants. Politicians are promising to ...

"I developed this class because I love issues involving international trade, particularly the politics of trade. There are many controversial topics surrounding globalization, such as its impact on ...

Our hunger for power is insatiable. In the United States, Russia, China, the world is filled with power-hungry people from all walks of life. Leaders and ordinary citizens alike are seeking more and ...

This piece appears also in YaleGlobal. WASHINGTON -- Behind all the handwringing in the West about a declining middle class and growing income gap lurks a stark fact -- while a new middle class has ...

Is Globalization Good for America's Middle Class? Part 1 In this blog, I have frequently documented economic trends that have been bad for the middle class: Declining real wages, steadily falling bang ...

The only point of consensus in this year's otherwise deeply polarized election seems to be that increased wage and job competition created by globalization has decimated the American ...

Since the 19th century, the fundamental structure of politics in Europe and America has been the contest between left and right — liberal v. conservative — to shape and reshape the societies in which ...