Globaphobia.

More than a year after protests at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle, Washington, a peculiar meld of extreme leftists and rightists, trade unionists, radical environmentalists and some self-appointed representatives of civil society still insists on saving the poor people of developing countries from ...development. This alliance opposes globalization, in particular the trend toward liberalization of trade and investment. The common ground of this globaphobic grouping is protectionism, often targeted against developing countries. Few …

… an irreversible process, since the information technology facilitating it will continue to develop. Such a cynical judgment is mistaken. The unprecedented globalization of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was mostly reversed during the 1920s and 1930s, with disastrous consequences, despite continued technological progress in communications and energy. For the sake of the poor peoples of the world, with good reasons and sound historical evidence, we must confront this wave of globaphobia head-on.