With the end of World War II, countries and communities across the globe looked for paradigms, norms, legislations, and mechanisms in general to ensure that the horrors of the two World Wars are never witnessed again. International relations as a field of study grappled with questions of what causes wars and devastations. Soon enough the questions of why countries go to war started being replaced in international relations with how to ensure states do not have conflict with each other. Trade, investments, and free flows of capital, ideas, and people were seen as being capable of creating mutual dependencies between states; which could ensure states seek cooperation with each other due to complex interdependence; over conflict. The forces of globalisation became advantageous to the global community at large as large-scale inter-dependencies started being created.