mearsheimer's treatment of economic economic globalization suffers from the standard problem in the security field at large: an overly narrow and static conceptualization of international commerce. Trade linkages before world war I were very extensive, to be sure. But trabe comprises only one part of what international commerce now consists of, a minority portion at that. Before World War I, there was nothing like the geographic dispersion of MNC production that exists today. Given that the globalization of production is historical novel and is now the pivotal driver of international commerce,