When Globalization Fails

This sweeping history examines two centuries of global trade and warfare, shedding new light on the relationship between economics and conflict. In the nineteenth century, liberals exulted that the spread of commerce would usher in global prosperity and peace, but these dreams were dashed by imperial squabbles, the carnage of 1914–18, and the protectionism, depression, and conflict that followed. In the wake of World War II, the globalists tried again. With the Communist bloc disconnected from t