There is no word with more purchase in present political discourse than Globalisation. But what does it mean, and why is it so important?

This panel surveys the extent of today’s globalisation, and asks: How globalised is the world really? What is the significance of this idea for politics? Is globalisation good for us? Does the European Union represent the past or a future, a world increasingly interconnected and interdependent, or torn apart? Have we arrived at an impasse and begun to fragment around nationalist economics and ideologies?

Join our panel of economists, political scientists and historians who study the global to consider these questions–and find some alternative views–at the last of our Thinker's Guide to the 21st Century Series event for 2017.

Speakers:

- Dr Thomas Adams, Lecturer in American Studies and History, the University of Sydney

- Professor John Romalis, Sir Hermann Black Professor in Economics, School of Economics, the University of Sydney

- Professor Glenda Sluga, ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of International History, FAHA, the University of Sydney

Held as part of the Sydney Ideas' The Thinker’s Guide to the 21st Century series on 25 October 2017: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2017/thinkers_guide_21st_century_2017.shtml?cid=em_si-news