Trade Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-System

@article{ChaseDunn2000TradeGS,  title={Trade Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-System},  author={Christopher Chase-Dunn and Yukio Kawano and Benjamin D. Brewer},  journal={American Sociological Review},  year={2000},  volume={65},  pages={77 - 95},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:147609071}}
The term “globalization” as used by social scientists and in popular discourse has many meanings. We contend that it is important to distinguish between globalization as a contemporary political ideology and what we call structural globalization—the increasing worldwide density of large-scale interaction networks relative to the density of smaller networks. We study one type of economic globalization over the past two centuries: the trajectory of international trade as a proportion of global… 

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