While China has so far secured support from a number of governments for its Belt and Road Initiative, the recent forum in Beijing also highlighted some obstacles to its advancement.
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Today’s ugly politics are not a backlash against global capitalism, they’re an open embrace of the racism and greed that has always underpinned so-called global governance.
Luxury is a global phenomenon present in all societies in various forms.
The latest figures on the world wine market confirm that the industry is undergoing considerable change, with European countries finding their positions and strategies challenged by the new world..
How a simple bacterium traveled across time and space to become Japan’s latest food fad.
The rise in nationalism. Brexit and Trump. Reactionary far-right parties wooing millions of voters around the world. The facts on the ground are clear: globalisation – and the international economic and…
We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here’s what history tells us about today.
Not every country prepares for global health threats in the same way.
Ever more people are stuck with shift work in a globalised economy that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Brazilian soap operas are wildly popular in Portuguese-speaking Angola, influencing women’s fashion and creating a business opportunity for thousands of Angolan female entrepreneurs.
A fundamental insight into the distributive effects of free trade from almost 90 years ago.
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Chercheure associée à Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM), Sciences Po Bordeaux, Sciences Po Bordeaux
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Professor and Director of the PhD program of the Silver School of Social Work, New York University
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Anthropologie, EHESS, CNRS, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Collège de France, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
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Professor of Sociological Theory, School of Social Work, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Director of the Wine & Spirits Academy, Kedge Business School
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