Globalization: A Powerful Weapon of the United States

The American policy of Marshall Aid sparked both huge appraisal and significant opposition, and to this day it is debated whether it was purely a policy of self-interest and an imposition of America’s political and economic views on a weak and vulnerable Europe, or alternatively one of the greatest acts of altruism and generosity in modern history. It was enormously successful, ‘It was the most unambiguously and triumphantly successful of all America’s post-war policies’ , and helped to create a foundation on which Europe could become an economic power. While there were benefits to America which may have been interpreted as attempts to increase American power and inflamed opposition to the Marshall Plan, the administering of economic aid

US globalization changed not only the United States, but the world, since anybody can sell to anyone, anywhere in the world. It has opened opportunity to many people across the globe that would have never been able to have a successful business without it. Another way it has changed is in the way people communicate with each other. People can immediately talk to somebody in another country, or post to a social website, reaching many people at once and instantaneously, globalization has definitely made the world a lot smaller.

The same goes for trading our current trade laws restrict us from reaching our full potential. U.S. trade as a percentage of GDP is lower than that of every other developed country in the world. As the forces of globalization have reshaped the global economy, there has been increasing resistance to trade liberalization

The Arab spring has generated much controversy as a result of demonstrating that countries that were apparently peaceful were actually determined to remove their governments and install a new ideology that would be compassionate with regard to its people. Some nations actually went as far as to put oppressors down and to bring reform throughout their countries. However, it rapidly became clear that peace was far away when considering that new leaders were unable to satisfy people's needs and that the masses wanted to be provided with more power.

“In an interconnected world, social and economic catastrophe in one country spills over onto its neighbours” (Chauvet, et al., 2007, p. 3). “Failing States” are often blamed for housing terrorist groups and transnational criminal enterprises, for the proliferation of small weapons, the spread of infectious disease, and endangering global energy security (Patrick, 2007; Lynch, 2016). They also account for a disproportionate amount of civil wars around the world and large number of refugee movements (Chauvet, et al., 2007). Outside countries, and agencies alike often find themselves intervening in the affairs of failing states to prevent “failure” from crossing boundary lines. On occasion the collapse of one administration can initiate a domino effect in neighbouring countries. The recent “Arab Spring” is one of the greatest examples of a “spillover” or domino effect in recent history (de Blij, et al., 2014). What began as an act of protest by a young Tunis man burning himself in December 2010, quickly grew into a number of public protests. A couple weeks later the Tunisian government was forced to step down and within months protests against established autocratic administration had diffused to nearby countries, and Libya, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and Bahrain were experiencing similar public outcry (de Blij, et al.,

The Arab world seemed to have been poised for an era of political and cultural renewal. The 2011 uprisings that toppled long-reigning dictators inspired hope to those within the region and the rest of the world that change may finally come to the Middle East. Like many eager journalists and intellectuals during the Arab Spring, Juan Cole, a history professor at the University of Michigan and a popular political blogger, had high hopes. “A new generation has been awakened,” Cole writes in his latest book, “The New Arabs,” which chronicles the positive new historical dynamic is taking hold in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. In 2011, Westerners expected the Arab world to “spring” into democracy. But like most at the time, Juan Cole was wrong.

On December 17, 2010, a young Tunisian street vendor protesting an abusive police official set off a wave of democratic uprisings throughout the Arab world. In contrast with externally imposed regime changes in Afghanistan and Iraq, the long-suffering Arab peoples took it on themselves to drive their former rulers from power and called for a new basis of governance in a region long dominated by dictators. While the outcomes of these political transitions are still very much in question, they highlighted the importance of popular revolt in bringing about democratic change.

Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian man who was being harassed by the government, set himself on fire in order to catch the government's attention and make people realize how bad the government of Tunisia was in 2011. The government took his scale for his fruit stand because he didn’t have a permit. He had enough of people taking his things over and over again so he wanted people to notice the corruption in the government. The Arab Spring Movement was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that occurred in 2011 throughout the Middle East. Most of them were to overthrow their dictator leaders. The Arab Spring Movement was in no way successful. Arab Spring has resulted in corruption, people haven’t gotten a real democracy,

On December 17, 2010, the Arab Spring began in Tunisia unexpectedly. It started after Muhammed Bouazizi- a twenty six year old street vendor- set himself on fire to protest police harassment in the central town of Sidi Bouzid. He was not alone in his indignity. The young in Tunisia tended to very

“We don’t want an Islamic republic,” chant the protesters. Also, “Death to the Revolutionary Guards” and “People are paupers while the mullahs live like gods.” But in contrast to 2009 they are not lining up with reformists against hardliners—they are wishing a plague on both their houses and bashing all pillars of the regime with rarely voiced venom. “No to conservatives and reformers alike,” is another popular slogan. Some have wondered aloud why the regime is spending the country’s wealth to support militant groups in Yemen, Lebanon and Palestine, and a blood-soaked dictator in Syria. “Leave Syria, remember us,” is another oft-heard chant.

In late 2010, a Tunisian named Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest against the poor economic situation in which he was living (CNN, 2011). Other Tunisians soon took the opportunity to resist their government and possible overthrow the leadership of Ben Ali. They took it as their responsibility to fight for the common good. Simple demonstration against the Tunisian government soon went ahead to an extent that Ben Ali had to leave the country. The events that followed the departures of the Tunisian president were the least expected. The revolts in Tunisia spurred citizens of other Arab nations to revolt against their governments. By the end of the years 2011, the Arab spring had claimed the presidency of three long serving presidents and

In chapter 4, Lynch discusses the Arab Spring that occurred from December 2010 through to March 2011, during which the protests developed into a regionwide uprising. The real revolutionary contribution of Tunisia and Egypt “was their rapid and massive diffusion into a regional tidal wave” (Lynch, 68). The close coverage of the uprisings encouraged other movements. Common themes emerged as protesters imitated each other’s tactics and rhetoric and regimes responded similarly, insisting that their countries’ particularities shielded them from the regional malaise. What made these protests different was that they succeeded in driving leaders from power, the traditionally effective authoritarian regime responses backfired, and they framed local acts into a single coherent regional narrative. Following the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions came the battles to claim

The woes of people living in the Arab World escalated with the regimes becoming more oppressive. Though the grievances had existed for a long time, the people did not have a strong backing that would enable them rise against the oppression. The civil society had been

After decades of oppression by government authorities in Egypt, it was members of our generation who inspired the civil opposition to the continued reign of terror of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, now in the process of standing trial for his crimes while Egyptian society recovers. Likewise, it was members of our generation who worked tirelessly, sometimes enduring the ultimate sacrifice in the struggle against the oppression of the long and corrupt regime of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Nor are we content with those achievements to date. Members of our generation are working just as hard on rebuilding those societies in positive ways to enable all of our brethren to enjoy the relative freedom, equality, and

Globalization is not a new concept its has been in existence, where transcontinental trade and human movement has started far back 2500 years over the centuries going down lane of the ancients silk road trade route, the system has brought more about international relationship but the human nature can never change. The word “Globalization” is bringing people together, that is, arising from the world view, products, ideas and even some area of our culture. Again, with the coming of globalization, industries like the telecommunication and transportation have improved on their workspace, this includes the upgrade of the telegraph and internet which are the two major contributors of globalization processes by bringing more interdependence of the global economic and its cultural programmes.