Abstract For decades, globalization and the liberal international order evolved side by side. Recently, however, deglobalizing forces have been on rise has come to be increasingly beleaguered. The special issue ‘Deglobalization? future of order’ examines interconnectedness deglobalization processes one hand trajectory other. This introduction provides a conceptual frame for articles follow. It ...

The harms of smoking are global in scope, and states must act multilaterally to repel this global threat to public health. Embodying this cooperative spirit, the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have banded together to challenge tobacco through international law. While successful in its execution, this international effort to control smoking neglects cessation interventions,...

The article depicts the situation before Cold War in which developing countries (DCs) and least Developed countries (LDCs) found themselves big loser, as they were deprived from participation in trade negotiation process, leading into establishment of GATT . Therefore, they resorted to UNCTAD  as the sole defender of their interests against Developed Countries in trade negotiations. UNCTAD has ...

In this article I introduce a framework for understanding the political effects of globalization on labor. While the globalization literature is rife with references to the effects of sovereignty from global trade and capital networks, there is surprisingly little written about the effects of increased labor mobility on national sovereignty. To fill this void, I adapt Albert Hirschman’s (1970) ...

Global threats to public health in the 19th century sparked the development of international health diplomacy. Many international regimes on public health issues were created between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The present article analyses the global risks in this field and the international legal responses to them between 1851 and 1951, and explores the lessons from the first century ...

We live in an unprecedented age of globalization, where technology, ideas, factors of production and goods are increasingly mobile across national boundaries. The current wave of globalization is distinguished from previous ones in part because of the major role of information technology. Nevertheless, globalization is not irreversible. Openness to international trade, …nance and technology is ...

sociologists have long been interested in the study of the relationships between members of families. also, in the last decades, sociologists and scholars in social and human sciences have shown an interest in the study of the effects of globalization on the micro and macro structures of societies. the aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between globalization and the division o...

US services are globalizing at a rapid rate, are increasingly in trade surplus, and, through foreign investment and affiliate sales abroad, are deepening the global integration of the US economy. There is even a new term for the phenomenon—“offshoring”—that is, the offshore outsourcing of service activities. While outsourcing is not new—the breakdown of the process of goods production to local ...

the attempts of globalization in developing countries could be observed in a wide range of areas. objectively speaking, globalization can be of advantage to developed and developing countries provided that the compaines and commodities of those countries can get access to and compete with those of others in international market place as equal partners with fairness in international trade. globa...