ABSTRACT
The world is simultaneously coming together and coming apart. In the twentieth century, for the first time in human history, the world became self-consciously organized at a global level, first with the League of Nations and then, more successfully, with the United Nations. There followed a string of international conventions and accords that ushered in something of a global consciousness on the subject of human rights and international law. Simultaneously, the forces inherent in capitalism, always implicitly global, became further integrated worldwide at the accelerated pace we call globalization.
