Globalization - Source of Strategic Advantage or Failure of National and International Policies?

The paper captures, through a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the scientific literature, the current macroeconomic context responsible for the political, economic, social, technological changes produced at global level. Thus, the article analyses the two sides of globalization: the positive aspects in terms of the economic and technological advantages of the phenomenon, and the less positive aspects, such as the generation of inequalities, the proliferation of progressive tendencies, the increase in pollution etc. The research is quantitative, bibliometric, and the investigation of the literature aimed at drawing a parallel between the two views of globalization, positive and negative, starting from its effects on contemporary global markets. The results underline the trend towards a change in national and international policy visions, supported by anti-globalization movements in European states, especially intensified after the Covid-19 pandemic. At the opposite pole of these movements, the bibliometric processing reveals a continuation of global development with the common denominator of the struggle for accelerating digitization, the development of artificial intelligence and not least the development of policies on sustainability and renewable energy in the context of ecology and environmental protection.