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The supremacy of economic liberalism in the post-Cold War era is manifest in the way intricate global networks began to converge on a less transparent map than that depicted by the realist-strategic one. Where the liberal economy prevailed, markets become more interdependent. This was built in turn on new technologies like the Internet and the 24-hour stock market. It was also built on the advent of a complex maze of international trading routes.
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Hoovestal, L.E. (2013). The Advent of the Container. In: Globalization Contained. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137315915_3
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