In this article, I suggest that economic globalization is experiencing a particularly serious kind of crisis: a “polycrisis.” Use of this term has proliferated recently but with many meanings. I propose that it be defined as a cluster of distinct crises that interact in ways that they and/or their effects tend to reinforce each other. This core definition enables the identification of distinct types of polycrises that capture multiple uses of the term to date. These types vary according to the spatiality, temporality, and level of generality of each polycrisis as well as the traits of its constituent crises. The analytical utility of the term, when defined in this way, is to encourage scholars to analyze interconnections between different kinds of crises across various issue areas and to reject monocausal analyses of crisis clusters they study. Applying this understanding of the concept to the study of economic globalization, I focus on five constituent crises that are contributing to its current polycrisis. This application of the term highlights yet another type of polycrisis, illustrating the importance of the conceptual issues raised above. The article concludes with some cautions about efforts to predict economic globalization's future and about ways in which polycrisis discourse may serve political projects.

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经济全球化的多重危机

在本文中，我认为经济全球化正在经历一种特别严重的危机：“多元危机”。该术语的使用最近激增，但具有多种含义。我建议将其定义为一系列不同的危机，这些危机和/或其影响往往会相互加强。这一核心定义能够识别不同类型的多重危机，这些危机捕获了该术语迄今为止的多种用途。这些类型根据每次多重危机的空间性、时间性和普遍性程度以及其构成危机的特征而有所不同。当以这种方式定义时，该术语的分析效用是鼓励学者分析不同问题领域的不同类型危机之间的相互关系，并拒绝对他们所研究的危机集群进行单一因果分析。将对这一概念的这种理解应用到经济全球化的研究中，我重点关注导致当前多重危机的五种危机。该术语的这种应用凸显了另一种类型的多重危机，说明了上述概念问题的重要性。文章最后对预测经济全球化未来的努力以及多元危机话语为政治项目服务的方式提出了一些警告。