http://daily.jstor.org/alexander-the-great-globalist/
EXCERPT: [...] But was Alexander also the first globalist? The political theorist Hugh Liebert thinks so, arguing that Alexander was in fact the founder of globalization by way of his “indeterminate identification,” a kind of pan-cultural global citizenship, the antithesis of nationalism. Not Macedonian, Greek, Egyptian, Persian, nor King of Asia (one of his titles), but all combined....
EXCERPT: [...] But was Alexander also the first globalist? The political theorist Hugh Liebert thinks so, arguing that Alexander was in fact the founder of globalization by way of his “indeterminate identification,” a kind of pan-cultural global citizenship, the antithesis of nationalism. Not Macedonian, Greek, Egyptian, Persian, nor King of Asia (one of his titles), but all combined....