Globalizace u konce s dechem - Výzvy a příležitosti pro Česko, Evropu a svět – Hampl Mojmír (2025)

Things and events are not eternal. Neither the bad ones, and unfortunately, not even the good ones. If something characterized the thirty years from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was the gradual opening of the world. Physical borders as well as invisible ones, limiting, for example, the flow of capital or ideas, fell. Larger and larger parts of the planet participated in the global division of labor, companies sought and found places for more efficient production, as well as new customers and markets all over the world. It was simply a golden era of globalization, unprecedented in its depth and scope in the recorded history of mankind. However, this era is slowly coming to an end, with small steps and gradual tightening of screws. And this is happening before many have noticed how those three decades were not self-evident. This book is therefore a collection of texts that share the search for an answer to a single unsettling question: how is the ongoing deglobalization manifesting and how will it manifest? And what might this global shift from openness to closure mean for the world, Europe, and also for the Czech Republic, which was one of the many winners of that golden era of globalization.