Charles A. Kupchan Quotes

We’re not at the endpoint of globalization but somewhere near the starting line.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

We face a world where borders matter less and less.

Globalization tends to turn all friends and enemies into competitors.

Globalization is a fact of economic life.

Globalization must be controlled.

Globalization

Increasingly national boundaries are unable to contain ideas, money or even people.

Globalization is very difficult to understand and almost impossible to regulate.

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

We are in a global competitive world. And in the future it will be even more, and more, and more global.

The political boundaries of nation-states are too narrow and constricted to define the scope and activities of modern business.

Globilization is here to stay.

We have collapsed distances, taken down walls, and spread information.

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

For the first time in history, a single worldwide economic system has come into being.

Globalization is the speed of light.