Globalization as the End and the Beginning of History

Globalization as the End and the Beginning of History

Arif Dirlik - Globalization as the End and the Beginning of History - The contradictory implications of a new paradigm

Foreword

This report has been prepared by the Global Risk Network for the Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions (Dalian, People’s Republic of China, 6-8 September 2007). In preparing this report, more than 30 experts from business, academia, and policy-making were asked to consider the recent period of unprecedented global growth: its drivers, its champions and the challenges facing the businesses, countries, regions and emerging leaders who will pilot growth for the next 10 years.

Globalization as the End and the Beginning of History