{"id":134921,"date":"2020-12-07T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=134921"},"modified":"2020-12-07T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:48:20","slug":"mike-osullivan-globalization-is-ending-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=134921","title":{"rendered":"Mike O&#8217;Sullivan: Globalization is ending. What&#8217;s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-ted wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike O&#039;Sullivan: Globalization is ending. What&#039;s next?\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/mike_o_sullivan_globalization_is_ending_what_s_next\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Globalization is on its deathbed,&#8221; says economist Mike O&#8217;Sullivan. The question now is: What&#8217;s next? Tracing the historical successes and failures of globalization, O&#8217;Sullivan forecasts a new world order where countries come together over shared values rather than geography. Learn how big regional powers like the United States and China will be driven by distinct ways of governing trade, technology and people &#8212; while smaller nations will forge new alliances to solve problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globalization is on its deathbed,&#8221; says economist Mike O&#8217;Sullivan. The question now is: What&#8217;s next? Tracing the historical successes and failures of globalization, O&#8217;Sullivan forecasts a new world order where countries come together over shared values rather than geography. Learn how big regional powers like the United States and China will be driven by distinct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9887,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=9887","url_meta":{"origin":134921,"position":0},"title":"We Are Detectives!","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"05\/06\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We Are Detectives! from Bryan O'Sullivan on Vimeo. 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