July 9, 2024 12:51PM 

# New Defending Globalization Content: A Case Against World Government and the First Age of Globalization 

By [Scott Lincicome](https://www.cato.org/people/scott-lincicome) 

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Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project:

[**A Cosmopolitan Case against World Government**](https://www.cato.org/publications/cosmopolitan-case-against-world-government), by Ilya Somin explains why support for globalization and opposition to global government are not contradictory positions.

[**Without Protectionism and Wars, Could the First Age of Globalization Have Occurred a Century Earlier?**](https://www.cato.org/publications/without-protectionism-wars-could-first-age-globalization-have-occurred-century-earlier), by Vincent Geloso shows that government-created barriers to trade (e.g., tariffs and wars) delayed the onset of globalization by a century.

This content joins thirty-two other essays and additional multimedia features on the main [Defending Globalization](https://www.cato.org/defending-globalization) project page.

Make sure to check it all out and stay tuned for future releases.

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