In ten years, if the world continues with its scepticism of globalization and begins to pull back bit or a lot, what might my ordinary american life look like? Po why is this? A kind of rational adjustment? To deal with the problems we've been talking about, which probably means the pattern of logalizations mire reachan all that the links with really nasty regimes are smaller. But in essence, the world stays open. The worst case tonarro is obviously that the world begins to break those economic links. And as in 19 30, is that that intensifies political tensions around the world and actually leads to a war, particularly with e us.
The 1990 opening of a McDonald's in Russia heralded not just burgers and fries but, get this, a new era of peace and prosperity. The Economist’s Patrick Foulis explains how the promises of globalization never entirely materialized.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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