Not mentioned: contacts between American aerospace companies and their Russian subcontractors. Which is interesting because rocket engines for the American Atlas V booster are Russian-built. ULA, the American launch consortium that builds Atlas V supposedly has two years' inventory, but they're under contract to provide launch services for longer than that.
(Orbital, the "other" American company doing cargo launches to the space station, is also using Russian engines --- in fact, engines that were literally built for the Soviet lunar program, and were plucked out of a warehouse in Kazakhstan years later --- but they have enough inventory to fulfill their contracts already in the US.)
We could instead get there with a simple note of the history of any of the WTO, IMF, or the European Coal and Steel Community that helped unify central Europe after WWII, later expanding into broader economic links throughout Europe. Friedman has a whole book on this that's probably cited even too much, but for basics, "The World is Flat" might deserve an offhand mention.
Do you think this inaccurately captures trends in economic interdependence?
EDIT: That said, long periods of peace haven't historically been reliable indicators of the end to all wars, so it's probably dangerous to ignore the precarious overtones of international diplomacy over the last few months.
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Not mentioned: contacts between American aerospace companies and their Russian subcontractors. Which is interesting because rocket engines for the American Atlas V booster are Russian-built. ULA, the American launch consortium that builds Atlas V supposedly has two years' inventory, but they're under contract to provide launch services for longer than that.
(Orbital, the "other" American company doing cargo launches to the space station, is also using Russian engines --- in fact, engines that were literally built for the Soviet lunar program, and were plucked out of a warehouse in Kazakhstan years later --- but they have enough inventory to fulfill their contracts already in the US.)
This sort of thing underscores how economic interdependence promotes peace. It's bad business to declare war on your suppliers or customers.
Didn't work during the last two World Wars, can't imagine it'll help prevent the next one whenever that happens either.
I saw api working off the premise that economic interdependence has generally increased over the last century.
It doesn't seem like a crazy premise, wikipedia even gets us there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_globalization#Post-W...
We could instead get there with a simple note of the history of any of the WTO, IMF, or the European Coal and Steel Community that helped unify central Europe after WWII, later expanding into broader economic links throughout Europe. Friedman has a whole book on this that's probably cited even too much, but for basics, "The World is Flat" might deserve an offhand mention.
Do you think this inaccurately captures trends in economic interdependence?
EDIT: That said, long periods of peace haven't historically been reliable indicators of the end to all wars, so it's probably dangerous to ignore the precarious overtones of international diplomacy over the last few months.
"Promotes", not "guarantees" or "forces".
Trade dominance is soft force, so when that fails or is denied war is inevitable.