November 15, 2023, 11:00-12:00
Shannon K. O’Neil, the author of “The Globalization Myth, Why Regions Matter,” is the Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on global trade, supply chains, Mexico, Latin America, and democracy.
Speaker presentation
North America: The Reluctant Regionalist
Globalization is not the only—or even the real—story of the global economy over the past four decades. In The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter, CFR Vice President and Senior Fellow Shannon O’Neil shows that the world has become more international but not nearly as global as the narrative of economic globalization suggests. As companies, money, ideas, and people went abroad over the last forty years, more often than not they moved and traded regionally rather than globally. Regionalization has enhanced economic competitiveness and prosperity in Asia and Europe. Now, as geopolitics and industrial policy drive once-in-a-generation supply chain reshuffling, it could do the same for North America, if only the United States, Mexico, and Canada embrace each other.