Which of the afarementione views on the history of globalization you find most appealing
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And what those ”aforementioned views” are you referring to? Globalization is a process that started with the first empires - the Achaemenid/Persian held together 44% of the human population of that times; Roman and Chinese empires plus India had even more, but the connections between them were not strong (if it was any). The first step toward globalization was made by the Mongols - the short-lived empire of Genghis-Khan was spread from Russia to China, almost all the Eurasian continental area. Then China and the West got connected (Marco Polo the first Westerner to get there). Vasco da Gama reached India; Columbus reached a new continent, believing that is India; and the Age of Discoveries open the road to the Age of Colonialism. After WWII the European hold on colonies ended; but the connections between colonies and their ex-metropolis did not ceased completely. The English ones formed the Commonwealth, the French kept the contact with France, and the Spanish ones did the same with Spain. The future skeleton of globalization was put in place. Modern transportation communication technologies - air companies and the Internet - did the rest.
This is the history of globalization, plain and simple. But the real engine of globalization is not the economic one - the economic aspect is the symptom, not the cause.
The real cause of globalization is the natural development of human society, which is based on unity of mankind. Family, clan, tribe, polis, empire, nation-state, were all levels that were achieved at certain moments in history.
Today only one level of unity must be achieved: the last. A World Commonwealth, a global socio-political entity to manage the affairs of the human race in the interest of human race - not in the interest of a social class or a nation. The problems mankind is confronted with - climate change, emergence of the IVth Industrial Revolution - robotics+AI+3D printing, emergence that might make a lot of people loose their jobs, the danger of a pandemic, either natural or man-made, cannot be tackled at nation level, no matter how strong a nation may be.