Globalization Goes to War

摘要

What may ultimately be said of a war with Iraq, assuming it occurs, is that it made the world safe for globalization―or that it proved the world unfit for globalization. Wars produce surprises, for good and ill. No one expected that World War I would doom the existing global economic system or, more optimistically, that World War II would herald history's greatest prosperity. The question now is whether a war in Iraq, even though much smaller, might also trigger momentous side effects.