Israel and Lebanon were highly interconnected, and Lebanon still hasn't recovered.
Georgia, Russia, Ossetia war. Extremely interdependent economies. By the way, had to post this... just too funny...
Funny eh?
Back to the topic. I think there is a correlation between interconnected economies, and war. But I do not believe it is based on dependence.
Is it possible the real answer is that when any two nations have strong economic ties, that simply due to the increased interaction between the two peoples, results in more basic understanding? Having more open communication, tends to result in less hostility and conflict.
This isn't a theory that if was all talk, then all conflict will cease. That's a joke. We have more methods for communication now than ever before in history, yet there is still conflict. But clearly when people talk it out, there is fewer problems.
But the EDT theory to me is a bust. Simply having economic 'dependence' doesn't mean much. Go to Wiki and look at the list of wars, and so many had economic ties, and it stopped nothing.
