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AND THE WIN-WIN WORLD 1. Thomas Friedman, “Foreign Affairs Big Mac I,” New York Times, December 8, 1996. Friedman was so pleased with his “golden arches” theory of war prevention that he later put it in his first book on globalization, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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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 don’t like to fight wars. They like to wait in line for burgers.” (Months after Friedman advanced the
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, 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 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 briefly bombed Yugoslavia.234 Anecdotes aside, many historians
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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 number of major wars ongoing worldwide rose from four to twenty
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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, the NATO bombing of Serbia and the fighting between
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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 the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Picador, 2000
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