New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- In response to US tariffs, in early April, the UK prime minister's office declared, "The world has changed, globalization is over and we are now in a new era." But are US President Donald Trump's trade war and immigration policies the only reasons for the collapse of globalization, if at all?

French economist Thomas Piketty argues that Trumpism is "a reaction to the failure of Reaganism." Republicans, he holds, have realized that globalization and economic liberalism haven't benefitted the middle class. But today's anti-global moment didn't start in 2024. As perceived by Tara Zahra, a history professor at University of Chicago, when thousands of protestors marched in Seattle in 1999 to oppose the World Trade Organiza...