Nayan Chanda is director of publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the editor of YaleGlobal Online. He is the author of Brother Enemy: The War After the War and, most recently, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. Before joining Yale, he spent nearly 30 years at the Far Eastern Economic Review, based in Hong Kong.
Decades from now, however, the oil spike and the crash of 2008 will look like mere speed bumps on the road to an inexorably integrated planet.
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