First there was imperialism, a world of multi-ethnic, international states who competed with one another. Then came nationalism, which challenged the empires for holding down their ethnic, civic, and religious minorities. Together these ideas brought war, and it devastated the planet. What followed was globalization, the system under which most of you in our audience grew up.
But where did it come from? And why did its architects believe this system, so different from anything that had come before, might keep the peace?
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