About Us
THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION (IFG) is a North-South research and educational institution composed of leading activists, economists, scholars, and researchers providing analysis and critiques on the cultural, social, political, and environmental impacts of economic globalization. Formed in 1994, the IFG came together out of shared concern that the world’s corporate and political leadership was rapidly restructuring global politics and economics on a level that […]
Asia Pacific Program
The Asia-Pacific region encompasses an entire hemisphere: 8,000 miles across the Pacific, 55 countries, 60% of global population, and a majority of the planet’s remaining resources. Yet even the most shocking events in the region receive little attention from media in the United States. Recent actions and policy shifts by the U.S., China, Russia, Japan, Korea and other Pacific nations—economic, military, trade, environment—have created profound negative […]
Plutonomy & Climate Program
Increasingly few, stupendously wealthy plutocrats have lately made enormous strides toward dominating global governance, finance and national democracies, while actively undermining traditional democratic expressions, such as collective bargaining rights, clean air protections, and services for social safety nets. The wealth of these individuals is so great that we begin to see a kind of global “neo-feudalism” evolving, where they themselves become the pivotal arbiters and […]
