After the end of the Cold War, the world seemed unstoppably headed towards greater economic integration, interrelationship, and interdependence. The processes of globalization took off, radically reshaping the modern world, its politics, and its economics.
Those heady days appear, however, to be ending. The vulnerabilities of globalization and its globally integrated just-in-time-delivery logistics networks to disruptions like the Covid pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and geopolitical tensions between the United States and China are now vividly on display. What does the future of globalization look like? Will protectionism return? Or are national industrial policies the order of the day?
Elisabeth Braw, author of “Goodbye Globalization: The Future of a Divided World” joins CSPC on 7 March to discuss her book which explores these questions and more, tracing the story of globalization from the seemingly unstoppable days of the 1990s to the risks and challenges of today. She will be in discussion with Joshua C. Huminski, the Director of the Mike Rogers Center for Intelligence & Global Affairs. Please register via the link below:
Elisabeth Braw focuses on defence against greyzone and hybrid threats as well as the intersection between geopolitics and the globalised economy. She is a columnist with Foreign Policy and Politico Europe and the author of The Defender’s Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Grayzone Aggression (2022). Elisabeth is a member of GALLOS Technologies’ advisory board, a member of the UK National Preparedness Commission, an adviser to Willis Towers Watson’s research arm and a member of the steering committee of the Aurora Forum (the UK-Nordic-Baltic leader conference).
Elisabeth’s book Goodbye, Globalization: the Return of a Divided World will be published by Yale University Press in February 2024. Elisabeth is a columnist at Foreign Policy and Politico Europe. She regularly writes op-eds for the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times and (writing in German) the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and is also the author of God’s Spies, about the Stasi (2019). Elisabeth attended university in Germany, graduating with a Magister Artium in political science and German literature.