In The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman argues in favor of what he calls "the Dell theory of conflict prevention." How does this relate to...

The Dell theory of conflict prevention, as Friedman
discusses in Chapter 12, is the idea that the world is so economically interconnected
that out and out war between major powers is becoming more and more unlikely.  Friedman
points out that various countries need each other economically and are therefore
unlikely to fight one another.

This dynamic is made
possible by globalization.  Because of globalization, you have many different countries
working together within the same supply chain, as Friedman discusses in the long
anecdote about his Dell notebook computer at the start of the chapter.  Globalization
has created all of the economic ties between countries that Friedman thinks will prevent
war.

So, globalization relates to the Dell theory by
creating the interconnections that the theory says will make major conflicts less
likely.