George Eaton,
New StatesmanGlobalisation's forward march was once assumed to be unstoppable. The world would ceaselessly become more politically, economically and culturally integrated. In his 2005 Labour Party conference speech, Tony Blair declared: I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation. You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer. When asked in 2007 which US presidential candidate he was supporting in the forthcoming election, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chair, remarked: We are fortunate that, thanks to globalisation, policy decisions in the US have been...
