have argued that trade makes war less likely, yet World War I erupted at a time of unprecedented globalization. This paper …Existing theories of pre-emptive war typically predict that the leading country may choose to launch a war on a … was Japan who launched a war against the West in 1941, not the West that pre-emptively attacked Japan. Similarly, many …

the reasons why these two forces moved largely in parallel in the decades leading up to World War I, collapsed during the …

We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade …

important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a …Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …

Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870 1913 marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization …

consolidation was often achieved through war and conquest. The second wave of globalization (1950-present) has led instead to an … response to globalization consists of removing borders by increasing country size. War is then an appealing way of conquering …The first wave of globalization (1830-1914) witnessed a decline in the number of countries from 125 to 54. Political …