I haven't posted in a while, but I had a curious thought yesterday.
With globalization slowly encompassing the entire world, and transportation being global in nature, the economies of the world are becoming more and more entwined with one another. Every nation is becoming more and more dependent on every other nation in the world. Although this peculiarity has two edges to it, I am going to focus on the more positive one.
A side effect of the interdependency of globalization arises when you consider the reasons for nations going to war with one another. Typically there are several reasons why nations go to war, one being for resources to ensure survival of the nation, one being for proactive self-defense, or for other nefarious reasons.
However, between the developing and industrialized nations of the world, there is a strong deterrence for going to war now: the interdependence of nations. A nation is not going to attack another sovereign nation, if their economies are tied together. Thus, I imagine that any future warfare will be between nations who are not part of the global economy and those who are. Perhaps, this will help to prevent wars, at least on the worldwide scale, but people will still scuffle over resources as long as humanity exists.
