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 …

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

This paper develops a theoretical framework to study the interaction between globalization and political structure. We … early stages, the political response to globalization consists of removing borders by increasing country size. In its later … stages, however, the political response to globalization is to remove borders by creating international unions, and this …

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 …