Traces of Anti-Globalization Amidst Rising Global Economic Conflicts

Dr. Aparna Gangadharan, Dr. Archana Fulwari

Abstract: The economic order of countries in the world is changing as globalization progresses in its many hues. Historically, the global economy has shifted from power politics to liberal international order via multilateralism to regionalism and then to increasing protectionism in trade and investment policies. The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic deepened the negative experiences and perceptions of an over-globalized world on account of vulnerability arising out of the geographical concentration of supply chains. Developments of the recent past have played a significant role in shaping the new world economic order. These include the UK's exit from the EU, the US-China trade war, China's Plus One policy, America's focus on domestic manufacturing, India's self-reliance policy, and the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement only to rejoin. Emerging market economies are also posing themselves more strongly in the global economy and building up bilateral and regional associations. In this context, this present study sought to capture the increasing concerns of geopolitics shaping the economies towards anti-globalization and slowbalization. It traced the linkages between the changing nature of globalization and the possible changes in the world economic order. While there are several studies in the literature that have carried out elaborate discussions on various phases of globalization, including anti-globalization, there are no studies which analyze the relative significance of various factors shaping geo-politics and anti-globalization movements. The present study attempted to gauge the linkages between globalization, anti-globalization and geopolitics using the Text Network Analysis (TNA) technique which identifies the prominent discourse around the topic and establishes if the discourse is widely dispersed or concentrated. TNA is a network analysis representing a text as a network graph. It uses words as nodes and the occurrence of nodes in texts builds up the relation. Once the text is encoded as a network graph, the most influential keywords are identified, and a relationship is built between them.

Keywords: Globalization, Protectionism, Geopolitics, International Order, Slowbalization, Anti-Globalization

How to Cite?: Dr. Aparna Gangadharan, Dr. Archana Fulwari, "Traces of Anti-Globalization Amidst Rising Global Economic Conflicts", Volume 15 Issue 1, January 2026, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 933-940, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR26107094939, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR26107094939