The Brussels effect is the process of European Union regulations spreading well beyond the EU's borders. Through the Brussels effect, regulated entities, especially corporations, end up complying with
The Berlaymont building in Brussels, the headquarters of the European Commission
Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. It can be attributed to a series of f
Portuguese carrack in Nagasaki, 17th-century Japanese Nanban art
Native New World crops exchanged globally (clockwise): Maize, tomato, potato, vanilla, rubber, cacao, tobacco
Lisbon in the 1570s had many Africans due to the Atlantic slave trade.
The 1843 launch of the Great Britain, the revolutionary ship of Isambard Kingdom Brunel