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Global Challenges
Issue no. 3 | March 2018
Globalization 4.0:
Evolution or Revolution?
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Global Challenges
Issue no. 3 | March 2018
Globalization 4.0: Evolution or Revolution?

Has globalisation reached its apex after centuries of growth as suggested by the latest figures of the WTO? In the affirmative, does this imply that we are ushering into a new era of degrowth? Or are we witnessing the reorganisation of the very architecture of globalisation, which remains based on the twin logic of the acceleration and continuous increase of the volume of exchanges, as well as the steady densification of geographic connectedness. Are global exchanges restructuring concomitantly to the fourth technological revolution and the expansion of the digital economy? The present Dossier proposes to approach this question by observing the nature and the evolution of the principal flows that characterize globalisation.

Articles for this issue

Globalization 4.0:
Evolution or Revolution?
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    Détail du monument de Budge-Budge (Kolkata) en mémoire des passagers du Komagata Maru, refoulés du Canada en 1914

    Globalisation Unbound: Transnational Flows in the Digital Era

    Reading time: 4 min

    By Dominic Eggel and Marc Galvin
    Research Office
    The Graduate Institute, Geneva

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    Painter and movie director, Banksy is an antisystem urban artist

    The Changing Paradigm of Trade in the 21st Century

    Reading time: 5 min

    By Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics and Codirector of the Centre of Trade and Economic Integration, The Graduate Institute, Geneva

    and Davide Rigo, PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant in International Economics, and Research Assistant at the Centre of Trade and Economic Integration, The Graduate Institute, Geneva

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    Energy Trading: An Uncertain Horizon

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    By Giacomo Luciani

    Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Programmes, and Codirector, Executive Master in International Oil and Gas Leadership, The Graduate Institue, Geneva

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    Flowing with Data: Digital Humanitarianism Today

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    By Bertrand Taithe

    Visiting Professor, Department of International History, The Graduate Institute, Geneva. Professor of Cultural History, University of Manchester

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    International Migration: A Canary in the Coalmine of Globalisation

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    By Khalid Koser, Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund; Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy

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    Public Policy in the Spiral of Universalising Education Standards

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    By Gita Steiner-Khamsi
    Professor, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Columbia University; Director of NORRAG

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    The Global Threat of Epidemics One Century after the Spanish Influenza

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    By Suerie Moon
    MPA, PhD, Director of Research at the Global Health Centre and Visiting Lecturer; Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Issue no. 2 | September 2017
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Democracy at Risk
Global Challenges
Issue no. 2 | September 2017
Democracy at Risk

While the 20th century has been characterised by the generalisation of democratisation processes, the 21st century seems to have started with the reverse trend. An authoritarian-populist nexus is threatening liberal democracy on a global scale, including in its American and European heartlands. Charismatic leaders – thriving on electoral majorities and popular referenda – methodically undermine the rule of law and constitutional safeguards in order to consolidate their own power basis. Coupling inflammatory rhetoric with modern communication technologies, they short-circuit traditional elites and refuse to abide by international norms. Agitating contemporary scourges such as insecurity, loss of identity, mass migration and corrupt elites, they put in place new laws and mechanisms to harness civil society and political opponents. In order to better understand the novelty, permanence and global reach of “illiberal democracy”, this second issue of Global Challenges proposes seven case studies (Russia, Hungary, Turkey, the Middle East, Uganda, Venezuela and the United States) complemented by a series of expert interviews, maps and infographics.