New Arrival Deglobalization

Edward Ashbee guides the reader through the intricate web of processes and forces of globalization that have shaped the worlds politics and economics over the last 40 years. This is an invaluable overview of one of the most important phenomena of our age.
Edward Ashbee examines the globalizing processes of the past thirty years and considers the extent to which there has been deglobalization or slowbalization and the reasons for these apparent shifts.The book looks at the original promise held out by globalizing trends which became fully evident at the same time as the dot.com economy became part of everyday life. The book then charts the backlash against globalism and the ways in which it became pronounced across much of Europe, North America and Asia. And it asks how far has that backlash, together with the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the rise of techno-nationalism led to a stalling or even reversal in globalizing pro