Patrick eloquently captures the reality that the modern world is a highly connected place that operates as an integrated system, and the associated trade related cause and effects. He offers some interesting food for thought in a world where increasingly the politics of national self-interest is usurping the politics of mutual interest and challenges some of the misconceptions of globalization, the most positive effect of which is, in my opinion, to help lift approximately one billion people out of abject poverty in the developing world over the last 20 years, and create new future global markets for goods and services.