Numbers Don't Lie

In this sense, the ages of globalization both explain and are explained by the rising scale of global interactions. Each boost in global scale has given rise to new technologies that have expanded populations and production. Each boost of scale, in turn, has changed the nature of governance and geopolitics. We are now reckoning, however, with a phe

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For all these reasons, South Asia has been and remains an uneasy and uncertain part of the world. The region’s two most powerful countries are locked in a cold and sometimes hot conflict against the backdrop of their respective nuclear arsenals, a contested border, and Pakistani support for terrorism against India. India is a democracy with a relat

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Any discussion of South Asia begins and ends with India. In addition to its rising population, India’s economy is large and growing, in recent years at the robust rate of around 7 percent annually. India’s economy is the world’s seventh largest and will soon be in the top five, trailing only the United States, China, Japan, and Germany (overtaking

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At the start of the sixth age of globalization, around 1820, the world was still overwhelmingly poor and rural. Perhaps 85 percent of the world’s population sustained itself through farming, almost all of it at a level at or near subsistence. Around 93 percent of the world lived in rural areas. Most people never ventured far from their birthplace,

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