The globalization of production and the changing benefits of conquest

This article examines the conditions under which conquest is likely to reap significant economic rewards. Scholars have largely focused on how the lev el of popular resistance within the vanquished country influences the benef its of conquest. What needs to tx: scrutinized in greater depth is how post -World War II economic transformations within the most advanced countries a ffect the benefits of conquest. This article focuses on examining one parti cular economic change that has been neglected for the most part in the secu rity and peace literature: the globalization of production. The article del ineates four recent changes in the structure of global production and outli nes how each of these economic transformations alters the benefits of conqu est. The collective impact of the arguments strongly indicates that the ben efits of conquest have declined significantly in recent years within the mo st economically advanced countries.