How much did the Cold War obstruct globalization and how did it accelerate it?
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If we imagine globalization as the spread of Western civilization (and this is debated among scholars), then the Cold War limited this phenomenon. This is because it closed certain markets and societies to Western influence. While it is too simplistic to describe the Cold War world as "bipolar," as textbooks sometimes do, it is true that many communist countries had limited economic ties to the United States. The Western goods, ideas, and capital that flowed into places like Western Europe did not generally make their way behind the so-called Iron Curtain. After the Cold War, many of these markets were thrown open to Western capital, and the "westernization" of many societies began. At the same time, the spread of American goods, culture, and money to places like Western Europe was indisputably a consequence of the Cold War. The Marshall Plan in Western Europe was a deliberate attempt to foster economic and cultural ties between that region and the United States....
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