Scope
This timeline covers the shift from the crisis of the postwar economic settlement to a more integrated, financialized, and market-oriented global order.
Inclusion rule
Include events that materially changed trade regimes, monetary order, financial integration, technological connectivity, or the political authority of market-centered governance.
Why this timeline exists
Late-20th-century globalization is essential for connecting the end of the Cold War to changes in production, inequality, communications, and the political language of reform and competitiveness.
Key phases
- Crisis of the postwar settlement
- Deregulation and neoliberal reform
- Financial and trade integration
- Post-Cold War market expansion
- Global interdependence and new vulnerabilities
Anchor events
Initial seed events to be added.