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The Economist defines globalization as the “global integration of the movement of goods, capital and jobs,” and for decades, the process has been advancing. The combination of labor cost advantages, increasingly efficient freight systems, and trade agreements fueled globalization by providing regional cost advantages for manufacturing. Over the last six decades, it transformed agricultural societies into industrial powerhouses.

Document Type

Policy Brief

Topic(s)

National Security, Defense Policy, Emerging Science and Technologies

Publication Date

7-2016

Publication

Strategic Forum

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Keywords

Technological convergence, Deglobalization, Globalization reversal, Local manufacturing trends, Distributed energy production, Automation and restoring, digital balkanization, political economy of trade, security implications of deglobalization, national security strategy

Will Technological Convergence Reverse Globalization?

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