International or internationally describes interaction between nations or encompassing several nations. Especially in the United States, "international" is also commonly used to mean "outside of the country."

Global is commonly used nowadays as a synonym for international, but such usage is incorrect. This is because "global" implies "one world" as a single unit, while "international" recognizes that different peoples, cultures, languages, nations, borders, economies, and ecosystems exist. Nonetheless such usage is found in widely-used media buzzwords such as the "Global Economy".

In team sports, "International" commonly refers either to a match between two national teams, or to a player capped by his national team.

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The Economist: Globalisation

Politeness: Hi there
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:02:55 -0000
Life is getting friendlier but less interesting. Blame technology, globalisation and feminismA PRIVATE visit to the castle of Vaduz in Liechtenstein is a treat for many reasons. One is to see a fine private art collection. Another is a chance to use an otherwise unusable German word. As the only German-speaking feudal country in the world, Liechtenstein is the last refuge of that language’s traditional forms of aristocratic address. The reigning prince, Hans Adam II, whose splendiferous full name in German is Johannes (Hans)-Adam II. Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marko d’Aviano Pius Furst von und zu Liechtenstein, Herzog von Troppau und Jagerndorf, Graf zu Rietberg, is the only person in the world who can seriously be addressed as Durchlaucht (Serenity). Like much foreign formality, it sounds odd in English. So does “Je vous prie de bien vouloir agreer, Monsieur, l’expression de mes sentiments distingues” which is how you might end a business letter in French (it means, more or less, “I ask you kindly to accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration”). In English a “yours sincerely” or even a simple “regards” would suffice; French-style floridity survives, just, only in the context of diplomatic correspondence. For the most part, and in most places, the era of “Serene Highnesses” and “Your Excellencies” is over. This is part of a big shift away from clear, detailed conventions about politeness of the past and towards a blurred but largely egalitarian world that prizes phoney friendliness over formality. ...
VW, GM and Peugeot-Citroën: Asian alliances
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:45:45 -0000
New ties for VW, GM and Peugeot Citroen signal a way forward for the car industryHAVING weathered the storm, the thoughts of global carmakers are now focused on the tie-ups they hope will give them an edge in the upturn. Two such deals, the first involving General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC, the second between Volkswagen and Suzuki, have been concluded in the past few days. Another, linking PSA Peugeot Citroen and Mitsubishi, is still under negotiation. All three are aimed at winning a bigger presence in Asia and tapping into low-cost manufacturing expertise, while sharing components and development budgets. Of the three, the most significant is Volkswagen’s announcement on Wednesday December 9th that it has agreed to pay $2.5 billion for 19.9% of Suzuki, a family-owned Japanese maker of small cars and motorcycles. Along with Fiat, Suzuki is the only international outfit that knows how to make money out of small, inexpensive cars. That is something VW forgot long ago. But it needs to relearn it, argues Max Warburton of Bernstein, as asset-management firm, if it is not to suffer from the worldwide trend towards downsizing, as new emissions laws bite and growth shifts to poorer consumers in emerging markets. ...
A whole new world
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:40:33 -0000
Art is becoming increasingly globalisedWHEN nations grow richer, their citizens become more educated and have fewer children. Once they reach a certain level of affluence, they also start to buy art. Their first instinct is to seek out the traditional sort made in their own country. As they become more confident they often grow more adventurous as well, buying unfamiliar work from other countries and less traditional contemporary art produced at home that expands the boundaries of taste. This has already happened from Brisbane to Buenos Aires, and is likely to happen in many more countries as they become wealthier. Not only will there be more art buyers, but more people will become artists too, so the supply is bound to grow. Australia, India and South America all have their own home-grown art worlds, and some of their output has gained an international following. The best work will find its way into international collections. Taste in contemporary art, which was so dominated by American artists in the second half of the 20th century, will slowly begin to change, and cities such as Dubai and Hong Kong will eventually come to rival London and New York as centres of the art-buying world. ...
EDF: Nuclear contamination
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:39:48 -0000
The giant French utility’s ambition to lead a global revival in nuclear energy is running into difficulties as a controversial new boss takes overNEXT week Henri Proglio will become the boss of EDF Group, the state-controlled French firm which is the world’s biggest listed utility and operator of nuclear reactors. With its proud corporate culture, its devotion to long-term planning and its powerful unions (the Confederation Generale du Travail jointly runs the firm, in effect), EDF is sometimes described as a miniature version of France itself. Last year it began a vigorous campaign to build nuclear plants around the world. But to the dismay of advocates of a nuclear renaissance, the cost and complexity of embarking on several big projects at once is weighing on the firm, despite its size and government backing.EDF has long exported its nuclear-energy expertise, but earned only advisory fees for its efforts. It helped build China’s nuclear fleet, for example, for a few million euros. Now, as growth at home slows, it wants to make bigger profits by building and operating nuclear plants of its own abroad. After all, it is one of very few utilities that can afford to build several reactors by itself, without sharing the risk with partners or governments. And in an industry which atrophied after accidents at Three Mile Island in America and Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine, it has relatively extensive recent experience of building and operating modern nuclear plants. ...
Globalisation: Going global
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:49:44 -0000
Articles mentioning “globalisation” in The Economist“GLOBALISATION” is a relatively recent term. A search in the archives of this newspaper, perhaps the one most closely associated with globalisation, shows the word first used in 1961 in an article on the need for economic reform in Spain. Only in the 1980s did the term get the meaning it now has, when Theodore Levitt, a Harvard academic, used it to refer to the spread of corporations around the world. By the end of the decade, with the Berlin Wall in pieces, the number of articles (and letters to the editor) mentioning globalisation surged. Protests in Seattle in 1999 and in Genoa two years later encouraged more uses of the term, as did global trade negotiations in 2006. But with the current recession, the term is somewhat out of fashion. ...
Capital controls: Raining on India's parade
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:53:57 -0000
What India can learn from Brazil about controlling capital flowsIN INDIA, drought sometimes turns to deluge. This summer the country suffered its worst monsoon since 1972, which left half its rural districts parched, followed swiftly by floods that inundated two states. In recent years India’s economic policymakers have confronted a similar phenomenon. A once-sheltered economy is now increasingly open to foreign capital, which rained down on the country in 2007, only to evaporate last year. The rains are now returning: foreigners have invested $13.8 billion in India’s stockmarkets since April, having withdrawn $8.6 billion over the same period last year. The Sensex, India’s most widely watched stockmarket index, has surged by almost 100% since its March lows. On October 27th the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) held its key policy rate at 4.75%, even though it is anxious about rising inflation. It is wary of attracting even more money from foreign investors, who are looking for high returns in a world of meagre yields. India’s discomfort (see article) is widely shared. Less than a year ago policymakers in emerging economies fretted about capital flight. Their currencies and reserves were falling as foreigners tried to raise cash by ditching whatever assets they could sell. Several governments queued up for emergency loans from the IMF or a currency swap with the Federal Reserve. Now they are worried about capital flowing in the opposite direction. On October 20th Brazil imposed a 2% tax on foreign purchases of equities and debt. Investors are now looking around to see who might follow suit. ...

IPS Inter Press Service - Globalisation - Is It Working for People?

CLIMATE CHANGE: Asian Delegates Want ‘Political Accord’, For Now
Athar Parvaiz* COPENHAGEN, Dec 12 (IPS/TerraViva) - Asian delegations to the ongoing global negotiations on climate change are insisting that a political agreement must be reached to pave the way for a legally binding treaty in the near future.
Q&A : ‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’
Neena Bhandari interviews DR SUE WAREHAM, proponent of a nuclear-free world MELBOURNE, Dec 9 (IPS) - As the threat of nuclear weapons looms large over the very existence of life on earth, Dr Sue Wareham, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons’ (ICAN) Australian board member, is calling for a speedy abolition of these weapons and the rejection of nuclear power as a solution to climate change.
POLITICS: Defiant China Asserts Role in Global Affairs
Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Oct 12 (IPS) - The symbolism of Beijing dispatching its second top leader for celebrations with the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il almost at the same time as Washington was deciding to break a tradition by refusing the Dalai Lama a meeting with the U.S. President last week has not been lost on observers here — keen to glimpse ever more signs of China's rise.

World Economic Forum - Latest Stories

World Economic Forum on Africa 2009
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:09:00 -0000
The World Economic Forum announced today that Tanzania will host the 2010 World Economic Forum on Africa in Dar es Salaam from 5 to 7 May. "The World Economic Forum on Africa is an important opportunity to take the pulse each year of the most influential of Africa's stakeholders. While sub-Saharan Africa has been less impacted by the global recession than most other emerging regions, the economic crisis still represents both a challenge and an opportunity for the continent and its people, ...
'Summer Davos' in Asia 2009
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:49:00 -0000
Chinese prosperity can be a win-win for the world, according to business and government leaders during the "The Global Dimensions of China's Domestic Growth" session at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions. Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, opened the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, laying out an ambitious agenda to reinvigorate China’s economy while meeting social goals. All stories from Thursday 10 September• Wen ...
Final Report from the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2009
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:42:00 -0000
Brazil to emerge from economic crisis sooner than most“Brazil is expected to emerge from the current global crisis before the average of the world economy,” said Henrique de Campos Meirelles, Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil, during a session on responses to global economic uncertainties at the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Rio de Janeiro. Four social entrepreneurs have been recognized as Latin American Regional Social Entrepreneurs 2009 during the opening plenary session of ...

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Globalization News

The Enbridge Oil Sands Gamble
Patrick Daniel, the CEO of Enbridge Inc, is bullish about the future of unconventional oil from Canada’s massive tar sand deposits. His company not only operates North America’s longest crude oil and liquid pipelines, but transports 12 percent of the oil that the U.S. imports daily. Canada’s bitumen, or dirty crude, lies under a forest area the size of England and is arguably the world’s last remaining giant oil field.
Bhopal: Generations of Poison
On the night of December 2-3, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous methyl iso cyanate into its densely populated neighborhood, killing 8,000 people in the immediate aftermath. 25 years later, Dow Chemical (which purchased Union Carbide in 2001) still refuses to clean up the site. But a new generation of Bhopal survivors is taking on the fight.
US: Ex-UBS Banker Seeks Billions for Blowing Whistle
Bradley C. Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison for helping rich Americans dodge their taxes, his sentence reduced in turn for informing on Swiss banking giant UBS. Now, with the help of the National Whistleblower Center, he and his lawyers hope to use a new federal whistle-blower law to claim a multibillion-dollar reward from the American government.

Steve Suranovic's Blog

Macro Science vs. Micro Science
Steve Suranovic Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:04:00 -0000
As I was reading the WSJ article today on the new doubts about the credibility of climate science I thought this situation might be analogous to something in the science of economics: the distinction between micro and macro. First, it is easy to see the amazing advances of science right before our eyes. Science has made the computer and television and cellphones and airline travel and all sorts
Immanently Sensible: Politically Impossible
Steve Suranovic Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:02:00 -0000
Charles Krauthammer's appeal today for three simple fixes to our current health care problems seems perfectly sensible, reasonable and low in risk. Although these fixes (malpractice reform, interstate competition and deductability reform) even if well designed and fully implemented may not solve all of the problems with the health care/health insurance system, they are likely to step the system
FED Independence
Steve Suranovic Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:18:00 -0000
An article in the WSJ by Ron Paul and Jim DeMint today discusses the issues of FED independence and transparency. They mention a "puzzling assertion made by the Fed and its supporters ... that the Federal Reserve has some sort of independence from the government." They continue to argue that the FED is not independent, but instead is a government run monopoly whose mandate to maintain stable

 

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