Is Globalization changing world politics??


wht do you say

By making nations more interdependent, it makes powerful nations take more interventionist foreign policies, but also limits their options in doing so. Countries fear to fight those other countries with whom they have large amounts of trade. China and America are diametrically opposed, but America needs Chinese cheap goods, and China needs American markets, so relations are cordial.

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- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s

I believe globalization can only increase inequality, and should be countered with protectionism until we become self-sufficient as a nation.

What is your reason for believing that?

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The incomes of unskilled workers and laborers rise, but the incomes of "skilled" workers rise much faster. That's been the result of what globalization we've experienced so far, and I can only assume that further globalization will bring further inequality.

Firstly, I'm not sure if that's true, globalisation seems to cause money to move from the skilled workers of the developed world to the much less skilled, but also much cheaper, workers of China and the third world.
Secondly, if you are right, and everyone's incomes are rising, isn't that a good thing?

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Not if the rich are getting richer faster than the poor. We should work on narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor rather than simply making the poor richer.

Well, I'll agree with you that it is important to close the gap between the rich and poor, but not if it means stopping the poor improving their incomes and standard of living.

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Of course not. I'm just saying There are ways to help the poor improve their income and standard of living that don't involve economic globalization.

Globalization is dependent on cheap and abundant energy to move resources and goods around the world in a constant, uninterrupted flow. It is enormously energy consumptive and vulnerable to any reduction or interruption in energy growth. As an example, the food that we all eat each day comes to us from thousands of miles away as does virtually everything that we buy. That requires fleets of ships, planes, trucks and trains in constant motion moving goods and resources from places many have never heard of. Anyone with military experience will confirm that one sure way to defeat an enemy is to cut his supply lines. Without them the opposing force will wither and collapse. The same holds true for nations when it comes to globalization. It is inevitible that the system cannot survive even a relatively small prolonged decline in critical energy, such as oil.