of course some say that the rise of what we globalization is p arty due to the now call economic "long peace" that emerged among the great powers 1945.29 This is true. There are many sources of this long peace, which, in turn, provided environment for the onset and accel- a favorable This book is not eration of economic globalization. about the causes of the long peace, nor the genesis Instead, the motivation of economic globalization. for this book is to understand the repercussions relations of the globalization of production for security t2throughout the world in recent years and in the years to come. With the fading of Cold War security number of prominent competition among analysts now see an increased threat of security great powers.30 This is where the geographic disper sion of MINC production enters in. As this book will show, now that the globalization of production is here, it works independently to reinforce stability among the great powers in a positive feedback loop via a specific set of mechanisms. This analysis, in short, greatly strengthens the argument that international commerce now acts as a force for peace among the great powers. This activities book's conclusion that the production