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The proper Global Security role of the United States in the international order over the next 20 years will need to be a “lead by example mentality.” There needs to be a better U.S. and China (G2) relationship in order to tackle the major ecumenical quandaries the world faces such as climate change, economic imbalances, nuclear proliferation, and interventions in failed states, terrorism, energy, and food security. The U.S. needs to take the initiative and dissever itself from the notion of “the…

In 2013 the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights passed a resolution 23/13 which reinforced that “state would adopt specific measures to protect and preserve the rights to life and security of people with albinism, as well as their right not to be subject to torture and ill treatment, and ensure their access to adequate health care, employment, education and justice”. Under this resolution Tanzania, with the largest populations of persons with albinism in the world…

World 156. That is the number of countries that the United States has a military presence in. After World War II the US became a world superpower and since then the US has become increasingly interventionist. Although interventionism could be considered a practical foreign policy, isolationism is the only practical foreign policy as it is not one countries place to police the rest of the world since interventionism creates hatred for the United States, domestic affairs are of more importance,…

Today’s global governance institutions were built around the emergence of the United States of America as a superpower in the mid-1940s. It was this mantle that caused the United States, for whatever reason, to assume responsibility for the reconstruction of nations both in the west and in the east following the devastating effects of World War II. A point largely dismissed by those too young to remember. That virtually uncontested assumption of responsibility combined with the need for…

“used to prevent friendly governments from falling under the influence of unfriendly ones or as payment for the right to establish or use military bases on foreign soil...or to increase its diplomats’ access to foreign officials” (Britannica). The United States has to stop seeing foreign aid as a hand out, but as a…

intent of expressing Facebook user’s sympathy to the victims and their families was quickly criticized by many people from across the world. Although the general population believes the Paris bombings are a tragedy, many believe that the recognition of the Paris bombings and not other tragedies displays Facebook’s favoritism of western nations (Mutnick). The social media reaction to the Paris bombings and its consequent criticism reflects a seemingly distinct phenomenon: human rights as it is…

services, such as free health care even while overwhelming the health care infrastructure, because of savings that resulted from a 2005 round of debt relief. (World Health Organization, 2007) Another example is that the World Bank pressures poor nations to eradicate subsidies for fertilizer even while many of the farmers cannot…

research, “while mature economies struggle to replace baby boomers, developing economies seek the better educated workers to power markets,” introducing an intense global struggle to obtain talent. Currently, GDP growth and productivity of developed nations are at peak level, thus, requiring greater labor involvement. Due to an expanding disparity between an aging populace retiring from the workforce and the arrival of new workers, developing countries are seeking better-educated workers to…

British Crow(educate-yourself.org). Their goal is to create one world government where there are no national or regional boundaries and that would be completely under their control (educate-yourself.org). Another one of these goals is to reduce the population from around 5 billion to 500 million(educate-yourself.org). This is a huge deal because of all the implications that there are. Just…

The great economic powers of the world, The United States, The United Kingdom, France, Germany, all followed a similar trajectory of development. In the west, civilizations grew from city-state to serfdom to sea trade to the industrial revolution. Inventions like the cotton gin and the steam engine propelled the western world into a new industrialized age, while countries in the east struggled through civil wars and the very complicated politics of trading with their western neighbors. In the…