Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
which explicitly tied ‘free trade’ to both peace and universal prosperity. Globalist cheerleader Thomas Friedman even invented his own geopolitical concept, which he called ‘the golden arches theory of conflict prevention’. It stated that no two countries with a McDonalds restaurant would ever go to war with each other. This has since been
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky · 1 May 2017 · 1,261pp · 294,715 words
, it is often true that where goods do not pass frontiers, armies will. It’s a version of Thomas Friedman’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek Golden Arches Theory of peace—countries with McDonald’s don’t fight one another. While there are exceptions (e.g., the U.S. invasion of Panama, the Israeli
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
a recent reminder of the irenic effects of trade. And rivaling the Democratic Peace theory as a categorical factoid about modern conflict prevention is the Golden Arches theory: no two countries with a McDonald’s have ever fought in a war. The only unambiguous Big Mac Attack took place in 1999, when NATO
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Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
by Gideon Rachman · 1 Feb 2011 · 391pp · 102,301 words
globalization all came together. The idea was that capitalism, democracy, and technology would advance simultaneously—and global peace would be the end product. Friedman’s “golden arches theory of conflict prevention” sounded crude. But for the generation that grew up during the cold war, the connections between the advance of capitalism, democracy, and
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Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
by Charles Kenny · 31 Jan 2011 · 272pp · 71,487 words
often victim to civil war, less often perpetrators of mass killings of civilians, and less likely to fight one another. Think of Thomas Friedman’s Golden Arches Theory of international relations—that (Serbia and NATO aside) no two countries with a McDonald’s have gone to war. But at the same time, the
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A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier
by Michael Peel · 1 Jan 2009 · 241pp · 83,523 words
than the mere diplomacy on display at the previous night’s party. He quotes Thomas Friedman, the US journalist perhaps best known for his 1999 ‘Golden Arches theory’ – that two countries with branches of McDonald’s in them never go to war (a tongue-in-cheek surmise proved wrong by, among other conflicts
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The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
by Sasha Issenberg · 1 Jan 2007 · 534pp · 15,752 words
French shepherd named José Bové, who blamed “McMerde” for indenturing “servile slaves at the ser vice of agribusiness.” Meanwhile, globalization booster Thomas Friedman offered a “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention,” optimistically postulating that two countries with McDonald’s would never go to war with each other, because “people in McDonald’s countries
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Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
by Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake · 15 Dec 2010 · 282pp · 92,998 words
a way that makes interstate conflicts of the sort we saw in the twentieth century less likely. Friedman admits this is an update of his “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention” from his previous book, which argued that two states that both had a McDonald’s would not go to war with each
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
by Edward Fishman · 25 Feb 2025 · 884pp · 221,861 words
-clintons-world. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT make conflict between states obsolete: This perspective was memorably articulated by the columnist Thomas Friedman in his “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention,” which asserted that countries with McDonald’s franchises would not fight wars with one another. See Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and
Armed Humanitarians
by Nathan Hodge · 1 Sep 2011 · 390pp · 119,527 words
prove as easy as overthrowing Saddam Hussein. * Barnett also seemed to draw inspiration from the pop-globalization writings of Thomas Friedman, who once postulated the “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention,” according to which no two nations with McDonald’s franchises—nations that are part of the global economy—had ever gone to
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words
-friendly rules that governments must wear if they want to thrive in a borderless world. He morphed Das Kapital into “DOS Capital” and propounded the “golden arches theory”—that no two countries lucky enough to have McDonald’s restaurants will go to war with each other. Friedman returned to his first calling, the