It is essential if we are to integrate fully with the process of globalisation.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death, the collapse of trade and migration in the interwar years of the 20th century: all these either slowed the process of globalisation or stopped it in its tracks, albeit only temporarily.

ECONOMIST: Globalisation

Whether all this is evidence of the emergence of a European superpower, or just part of the broader process of globalisation, is questionable.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Mr Bickerstaffe now heads a delegation from Solidar, an alliance of trade unions and NGOs who are campaigning for the inclusion of social rights in the globalisation process.

BBC: Labour: the missing issue at Doha

Why, otherwise, would deglobalisation be touted as part of the solution while the IPCC process insists that globalisation is?

FORBES: Biofuels: Policy Based Evidence Making

Blair is proposing to set a course for globalisation by speeding up the free-market process and the reform of its social model... reducing Brussels to the role of a bursar serving the states.

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