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.