During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and ... countries have often been forced to respond to changes created elsewhere. A Short History of Globalization from a Western Perspective The nineteenth century was an era of unsurpassed economic expansion, partly driven by the invention of steamships and the railways, partly by political systems that were dominated by the middle classes ... World War. In the 1940s, international institutions were established to try and strike a balance be...

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