Anarchy or Order?

Anarchy or Order?

Globalization: False Promises and the Continual Power Struggle

Modernization and globalization affect all nations both directly and indirectly. Globalization has taken on a new face as opposed to its historical one: exploration, imperialism and international trade have morphed, and will continue to spin-off into new directions. Consequently, the repercussions of globalization are unknown; however, globalization has the potential to change the world order that human beings are accustomed to. No single political analyst can pigeonhole the effects of globalization as entirely beneficial or entirely detrimental; rather, analysts such as Nancy Birdsall, Stephen D. Krasner, and Andre Frank recognize inherent social flaws within the process of globalization. Further, political analysis’s including Robert Gilpin and Devesh Kapur recognize the economic implications associated with globalization. Finally, Anne-Marie Slaughter, John J. Mearsheimer, and David Held formally recognize the ideological difficulties associated with creating world order.

The consequences of globalization, at the rate it continues to grow, originate from three succinct areas of politics - social, the economy, and ideology - include but are not limited to: rapid influx of underdevelopment in already struggling nations, a widened gap between the rich and the poor, widened inequality among men and women in third world countries, unequal economics interdependence among rich and poor nations, the inability to create coherent international institutions, and the intensified struggle between capitalist forerunners and the modern-day proletariat.

Although discussions of the social consequences of globalization are sometimes treated as mere ...

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...e fact remains that the state with the most power will control decisions on an international level: The likelihood of the United States admitting that their justice system could benefit from suggestions from other countries remains slim to none. Influence from the most powerful nations will adversely hinder the possibility of peaceful world order.

The backlash and adverse consequences of globalization seeps into all aspects of world order including social status, economic equality, and political ideologies. When one nation gains power within any of the previously mentioned institutions, another will lose. Just as black cannot exist without white, day cannot exist without night, good without evil, the powerful cannot exist without the weak. The continual struggle for power between all nations through globalization inhibits the possibility for world order and peace.