New Tides of Globalisation

A very short history of the ‘multipolar’ world (part 1)

Since 1990 ideas of world order and globalisation have dominated elite government and business debates in the world. Those ideas were placed in a simplified history of globalisation, which was a rewrite of the Rise of the West. For 30 years, the tides of globalisation were powered by the Washington consensus. But in the last decade, those tides have turned. New currents and surges suddenly revealed an ancient multipolar world.