A decent argument for globalization's major role in promoting world peace:
https://voxeu.org/article/globalisation-promotes-peace"Our findings suggest that trade integration not only results in economic gain but can bring about significant political gain as well — such as a significant “peace dividend” between trading partners. It also explains why regional or global economic integration is often initiated to satisfy political and security motives. For example, the raison d’etre behind the formation of the EU following World War II was the desire for peace — particularly between France and Germany.
In response to the current financial crisis and economic recession, some countries have resorted to trade-restricting measures to try to protect national businesses and jobs. The world should remember that protectionism in the interwar period provoked a wave of retaliatory actions that not only plunged the world deeper into the Great Depression but also put international relations at greater risk."
I think the basis of all human issues comes from restriction. Making drugs illegal, making it "impossible" to profitably do business with certain foreigners because of imaginary lines.
The more barriers that are knocked down, and the more power the everyman has to be economically relevant, the more harmonious the world where will be as no one will be oppressed due to circumstance.
Thoughts?
