1910 was the peak of global political-economic unification until the late twentieth century

Evidence

By 1910 the world was more one politically and economically than at any other time in human history. International trade as a proportion of the gross world product was higher than it had ever been before and would not again approximate until the 1970s and 1980s. International investment as a percentage of total investment was higher then than at any other time. Civilization meant Western civilization. International law was Western international law coming out of the tradition of Grotius. The international system was the Western Westphalian system of sovereign but “civilized” nation states and the colonial territories they controlled. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 141

Categorization

• QUESTION: Trade as a share of GWP only re-approached its 1910 level in the 1970s-80s — worth verifying whether this globalist-era claim still holds through the 2020s trade slowdown.