Economic Deglobalization, Regionalism, and Localism Processes Driven by Populism and Nationalism

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to analyze the nationalism and populism as the driving forces of economic deglobalization processes and regionalism. The analysis departs from the assumption that the economic deglobalization processes responds to more complex dynamic forces created by the economic, financial, and the most recent health crisis that blocks the continuity of the economic globalization. Moreover, at the center of the analysis is the conceptualization that both globalization and deglobalization are two faces of the same coin, but with opposite driving forces. Nationalism and populism are the driving forces of deglobalization leading to find regional and more local solutions to economic growth and social and environmental problems.