Identify the main phases of the history of global and political integration before 1945
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Identify the main phases of the history of global and political integration before 1945 It could be argued that the history of global and political integration began with the various great empires the world has seen such as the Roman empire. However, for the purpose of this essay, the concentration is on the period 1914 - 1945, looking at the main phases of integration from the eve of The First World War (WWI) to the end of The Second World War (WWII). The phases are not necessarily time periods, some are organisations, such as the league of nations, others periods of political or economic unrest, such as the rise of fascism in Europe. On the eve of the WWI the European states system was still dominated by a few great powers, who regarded themselves as the established arbiters of major international questions1. The great European powers and their colonies dominated global economic...


