Impact of the War on Terrorism on Globalism

Since the end of the Cold War, relative economic benefit rather than military and political advantage has dominated the discourse between superpower rivals and major foreign-trade partners. An important aspect of that discourse has been an increasing trend toward rationalization of international political economy in general and foreign-trade protocols in particular, although over the entire course of the 20th century, despite two world wars and assorted regional conflicts there was a persistent drift toward international conventions. The General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT), first constituted in 1947 among 23 western nations, was renegotiated and enlarged six more times, in a series of meetings organized as so-called rounds and by 1997 involving 125 nations (GATT, 2001). The effect of GATT rounds was to dramatically reverse the history and reduce the scale of tit-for-tat trade-by-tariff and international protectionism. The succession of negotiation rounds for GATT over nearly 50 years resulted in increasing the scope of treaty jurisdiction over member-nation economies beyond the init

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orld of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, makes up the South. The term Jihad, not exclusively identified with the South, is the name given to parochialism in the context of modernization and amplified global trade. Lack of international consensus about the human impact on the environment suggests North-South (or have/have-not) antipathy. Zartman (p. 3) describes the problem as one of different stages of development, "so that the South only produces the ingredients for the industry of the North, and it sells them at uncertain and fluctuating rates to buy the more expensive finished products." Zartman also says that the North tends to view North-South issues in terms of "established economic mechanisms" and "power determinacies" (p. 5), which is consistent with Barber's view that the dominant trend is toward globalization of economic and industrial forces that are controlled chiefly by McWorld (i.e., the North). Economically, McWorld/North has exported entire factories to the South, closing American factories and depriving US workers of their high-paying union jobs. Militarily, the late US war on terrorism, whatever else it is, has been a vivid platform for demonstrating the versatility and reach of American power vis-à-vis virtuall
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