Chrystia Freeland Quotes

The Nation is ceasing to be the leading form off the world’s structure; organizations transcending national boundaries are becoming more and more numerous and effective.

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

The political boundaries of nation-states are too narrow and constricted to define the scope and activities of modern business.

I wouldn't say the nation-state is dead, but the Sovereignty has been greatly circumscribed ... even for a country as large as the U. S.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

The State will increasingly see its sovereignty undermined by multinational capital.

Trump is not national: he's international. He's known all over the world. He has established businesses all over, and he has given jobs to thousands and thousands of people all over the world with these businesses that he has put together.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

I think we should be less dependent on the outdated concept we call countries.

The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.

Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.

nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

For virtually every area of public policy there is a globalist proposal, consistent with the overall objective of reducing individual nation-state autonomy, particularly that of the United States?

As corporations get larger worldwide, we have to be organizing those companies worldwide.

There are no national strategies any longer. There's only national poverty. With the global economy there are only global strategies. We're moving from a world of enemies that are national to a world of global dangers. Can you place boundaries on pollution?

Increasingly national boundaries are unable to contain ideas, money or even people.

Geo-economics may replace geo-politics as the driving force in international relations.

Globalization today is a globalization of markets, not a globalization of democracy.