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When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana: James Macdonald

IS GLOBALIZATION AN UNINTENDED RECIPE FOR WAR?

Taking this question as its starting point, James Macdonald’s When Globalization Fails offers a rich, original account of war, peace, and trade in the twentieth century―and a cautionary tale for the twenty-first.

In the late nineteenth century, liberals exulted that the spread of international commerce would usher in prosperity and peace. An era of economic interdependence, they believed, would render wars too costly to wage. But these dreams were dashed by the carnage of 1914–1918. Seeking the safety of economic self-sufficiency, nations turned first to protectionism and then to territorial expansion in the 1930s―leading again to devastating conflict. Following the Second World War, the globalists tried once more. With the communist bloc disconnected from the global economy, a new international order was created, buttressing free trade with the informal supremacy of the United States. But this benign period is coming to an end.

According to Macdonald, the global commerce in goods is a mixed blessing. It makes nations wealthier, but also more vulnerable. And while economic interdependence pushes toward cooperation, the resulting sense of economic insecurity pulls in the opposite direction―toward repeated conflict. In Macdonald’s telling, the First World War’s naval blockades were as important as its trenches, and the Second World War can be understood as an inevitable struggle for vital raw materials in a world that had rejected free trade. Today China’s economic and military expansion is undermining the Pax Americana that had kept economic insecurities at bay, threatening to resurrect the competitive multipolar world of the early twentieth century with all its attendant dangers. Expertly blending political and economic history and enlivened by vivid quotation, When Globalization Fails recasts what we know about the past and raises vital questions about the future.

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Oliver Stone – The Untold History of The US – Bush & Obama Age of Terror Top Documentary Films

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“It’s a Sad Day for Many of Us”: Bernie Delegates Boo Sanders After Endorsing Clinton

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The IMF has just cut its outlook for global economic growth in 2016 and 2017

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Johnson & Johnson Offered Woman $1.3 Million To “Keep Quiet” About Tal cum Powder Cancer Link

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Published on Jul 26, 2016

Johnson & Johnson is being hit with lawsuits all over the country over the link between their talcum powder and ovarian cancer. But what most people don’t know is that several years ago the company offered a woman $1.3 million to keep the link between talc and cancer quiet from the public. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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William Shatner Talks Science Fiction vs. Science Fact | Video

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Published on Jul 26, 2016

The ‘Star Trek’ alumni talks about science fiction inspiring science and exploration. — ‘Captain Kirk’ Talks Medical Advancements From Space Exploration: http://www.space.com/23602-captain-ki…

Credit: NASA

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