Ghemewat

P. Ghemawat, 'Why the World isn't flat', Foreign Policy Issue 159 (Mar/Apr 2007), 54–60.

*"In truth, the world is not nearly as connected as these writers would have us believe. Despite talk of a new, wired world where information, ideas, money, and people can move around the planet faster than ever before, just a fraction of what we consider globalization actually exists. The portrait that emerges from a hard look at the way companies, people, and states interact is a world that’s only beginning to realize the potential of true global integration. And what these trend’s backers won’t tell you is that globalization’s future is more fragile than you know." ¹(56)

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"More broadly, these and other data on cross-border integration suggest a semiglobalized world, in which neither the bridges nor the barriers between countries can be ignored. From this perspective, the most astonishing aspect of various writings on globalization is the extent of exaggeration involved. In short, the levels of internationalization in the world today are roughly an order of magnitude lower than those implied by globalization proponents" ²(57)

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"We’re more wired, but no more “global.”"³ (58)

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"For example, rough calculations suggest that the number of long-term international migrants amounted to 3 percent of the world’s population in 1900—the high-water mark of an earlier era of migration—versus 2.9 percent in 2005."⁴ (59)

1P. Ghemawat, 'Why the World isn't flat', Foreign Policy Issue 159 (Mar/Apr 2007), 54–60, 56.

2P. Ghemawat, 'Why the World isn't flat', Foreign Policy Issue 159 (Mar/Apr 2007), 54–60, 57.

3P. Ghemawat, 'Why the World isn't flat', Foreign Policy Issue 159 (Mar/Apr 2007), 54–60, 58.

4P. Ghemawat, 'Why the World isn't flat', Foreign Policy Issue 159 (Mar/Apr 2007), 54–60, 59.