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Was reading some history this weekend, and - it really was this clean cut. Widespread cultural norms around respecting rationality, science etc only became popular in places where there was a lot of commercial activityhttps://twitter.com/asteroid_saku/status/1229053768307740673 …
Widespread commercial activity was also critical in establishing the rule of law. In 1200 a lord was a warlord who was happy to plunder his neighbor if he could. By 1600 he was tied to his neighbor by 100 different types of commercial arrangements, and wouldn't.
I think the Hobbesian explanation is more plausiable. The state assumed a monopoly on violence; it used that monopoly to protect commercial interests. Obligations - commercial or otherwise - are a fact of human life. The unique thing here was the growth of the state.
What parallels exist today between nations like the US and China?
The Great Illusion (published 1909), argued that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by starting a war the consequences of which would be so disastrous." And yet WW1 happened. Sometimes it's this way, sometimes it's that
The Mongols seem to have realized this in the late 13th century, when competing branches of the family controlled different parts of the vast empire. (source: https://g.co/kgs/orp3CT )pic.twitter.com/d3sZJfALj0
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