Openness and market transparency are important values, but they can also overwhelm local cultures as McDonald's restaurants, Disney World, and the cell phones replace local cultural symbols and practices. What pleases global markets is not always what is culturally, morally, or religiously uplifting. Nonetheless, globalization is a moderating influence between nations. Economically interdependent nations entwined in trade are less likely to begin wars with each other. Even the forces of nationalism and cultural exclusivity, values associated with the olive tree that sometimes lead to war, are often modulated by economic imperatives.
War is bad for business.
Even though authoritarian structures may appear solid on the surface, economic freedom eats away at the foundation of authoritarian regimes. Others are less sanguine about the salutary benefits of trade. They recall Lenin's prediction that the capitalist will sell you the rope with which you will hang him. However, the regime that Lenin begat is as dead as he is. It turns out that people are not particularly anxious to hang people with whom they can conduct profitable business.