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Not mentioned: contacts between American aerospace companies and their Russian subcontractors. Which is interesting because rocket engines for the American At
by rst 13y ago
Not mentioned: contacts between American aerospace companies and their Russian subcontractors. Which is interesting because rocket engines for the American Atlas V booster are Russian-built. ULA, the American launch consortium that builds Atlas V supposedly has two years' inventory, but they're under contract to provide launch services for longer than that.
(Orbital, the "other" American company doing cargo launches to the space station, is also using Russian engines --- in fact, engines that were literally built for the Soviet lunar program, and were plucked out of a warehouse in Kazakhstan years later --- but they have enough inventory to fulfill their contracts already in the US.)
- api 13y agoThis sort of thing underscores how economic interdependence promotes peace. It's bad business to declare war on your suppliers or customers.
- makomk 13y agoDidn't work during the last two World Wars, can't imagine it'll help prevent the next one whenever that happens either.
- Deestan 13y ago"Promotes", not "guarantees" or "forces".
- dwd 13y agoTrade dominance is soft force, so when that fails or is denied war is inevitable.
- brownbat 13y agoI saw api working off the premise that economic interdependence has generally increased over the last century. It doesn't seem like a crazy premise, wikipedia even gets us there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_globalization#Post-World_War_II:_Globalization_resurgent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_globalization#Post-W... We could instead get there with a simple note of the history of any of the WTO, IMF, or the European Coal and Steel Community that helped unify central Europe after WWII, later expanding into broader economic links throughout Europe. Friedman has a whole book on this that's probably cited even too much, but for basics, "The World is Flat" might deserve an offhand mention. Do you think this inaccurately captures trends in economic interdependence? EDIT: That said, long periods of peace haven't historically been reliable indicators of the end to all wars, so it's probably dangerous to ignore the precarious overtones of international diplomacy over the last few months.