Column 143
Sunday, March 1, 2009 at 1:37AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

Globalization and U.S. intervention spread peace

Critics of America's frequent military interventions in the post-Cold War era argue that, instead of spreading collective security and reducing conflicts, our "imperial" forces actually destabilize the world. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The just-released "Mini Atlas of Human Security," published by the World Bank and Canada's Simon Fraser University, details the pacifying impact of globalization's advance. That globalization is a direct descendant of America's post-World War II international liberal trade order that has been consistently defended by U.S. military forces in the decades since, but at unprecedented high frequency since the early 1990s.

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I change the title above back to what I sent in (SH subs 'moves' for 'intervention' when I said to myself 'this should bring the hate mail pouring in'.

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