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Globalism is important. It opens avenues of communication and understanding, and facilitates international trade, agreements, and cooperation. But globalism too often comes at the expense of human rights and the principles and priorities of the free world. Globalism’s conundrum is that the thuggish dictators we reach out to do not themselves want one-world harmony and prosperity. When they agree to cooperate and negotiate, it is often in order to provide camouflage—and time—for their actual plans. Those plans often include nuclear proliferation, sponsorship of terror and brutal crackdowns on pro-democracy movements. Extremist leaders prefer that their “will to power” be imposed upon others, both internally and externally, than that the world reach a compromise based upon toleration, “coexistence,” and mutual respect.
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Pierce, A.R. (2015). Globalism’s Conundrum. In: Johnson, R.D. (eds) Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization. The Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137455383_9
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