Should we see globalization as a recent phenomenon or has history got important lessons for us? Globalization, when you reflect on it, is a very old phenomenon; it is not a recent one. It may have gone into overdrive recently, but it actually is as old in its initial instincts as human experience is. All the evidence is that from the very first, human beings, when they met each other as they spread out around the planet, they did one of two things. They either fought or they traded. The history books have concentrated an awful lot on the former and perhaps not enough on the latter.
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