International Relations

International Relations

As I look back on high school, I remember walking through the hallways and seeing people and groups of all kinds. The hallways were lined, side to side, with different groups of different people with different ideas and opinions. I, myself, was part of a clique also. However, my clique inter-mingled with other cliques as we exchanged our ideas, opinions, and experiences. There were some other cliques that did the same as they did not isolate themselves from the rest of high school life. However, there were also the other kinds of groups which committed themselves to that group, and they did isolate themselves from everyone else.

Now, let’s take these cliques and turn them into full-scale nations. The high school, in turn, becomes the world. The cliques that kept to themselves would be classified under the term, localization. The cliques that intertwined with others would be classified under the term, globalization.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both globalization and localization. Globalization encourages going beyond territorial boundaries to discover new political, economic, and social aspects that would benefit the citizens and the nation. Politically, globalization supports developments that expand authority, policies, and interests beyond these boundaries. Governments now will look to foreign governments for assistance if they are facing a difficult situation. Governments will also incorporate foreign political ideas into their own government in order to solve an ongoing problem that they have that the other does not. One example of globalization in the political sense first of all, is the formation of the European Union, and second of all, is the European Union’s desire to cr...

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...n they encounter because to be quite frank, there will be situations that no one else will care about. However, when it comes to the well-being of the people of a nation, the government should go through any means necessary to benefit them. Every government wants their nation to succeed politically, economically, and socially, but especially economically. Money is the most powerful force on the face of the planet. Sacrifices will have to be made, but nations will and should use all of their power to reach economic prosperity.

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