Building a Broader Atlantic Community

The Atlantic hemisphere highlights many aspects of globalization.

Twenty countries on the continents of North America, South America, Africa and Europe signed on to a September 2022 UN agreement to address issues common to their socioeconomic development. The pact’s principal objective is to foster greater communication and collaboration within the Atlantic hemisphere.

The Atlantic Ocean is the most traveled body of water in the world – moving trade, data and people – and it acts as an “inland sea” to most of the globe’s democracies. Commercial traffic in the region competes with and often exceeds that of the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic economy has seen unprecedented growth in workers and consumers since 2000. It contributes as much as the Pacific does to globalization, but...