The term "globalization" refers to the process in which people, governments and companies of different countries interact and integrate with each other through various processes such as trade, investment and information technology. ... Partnering up with another country means you are obligated to follow whatever military decisions they make as well even though it is at your inconvenience, and can result in great alliance wars. An infamous example of how the alliance system had caused a detrimental outcome is the world war one; countries were hauled into the war by their alliances res...

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He/she appears in all the public debates, be brief comments in television and watchwords in posters, places in the net and versed newspapers, you debate parliamentarian, directory of companies or workers' assemblies. ... The companies constituted in a country invest more and more in the establishment and operation in other countries. In 1998, you sign Americans they invested in the external US$133.000 millions and foreign companies invested US$193.000 millions in the United States. ... That acme of the globalization declined in the first half of the XX century, time that was characterized...

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This was brought to a halt by the First World War and the bout of anti-free trade protectionism that led to the Great Depression in 1930. ... The end of the Second World War brought another great expansion of capitalism with the development of multinational companies interested in producing and selling in the domestic markets of nations around the world. ... The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the cold war between the forces of capitalism and socialism with capitalism triumphant. ... Established at the conclusion of the Second World War, the United Nations ha...

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It also brings new jobs and technology to different countries and makes profits for the car company that can be re-invested in making ever better cars. ... Technological change makes the benefits especially large and therefore increases incentives to liberalize trade, particularly as companies will pressure for opening so they can profit from outsourcing production. ... From a political perspective, foreign competition can bankrupt domestic businesses (which may benefit consumers with better value, more efficient goods, but disadvantages domestic companies whose employees face redund...

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Currently, South Korea has many world-renown companies like Samsung, LG, and Hyundai; and as a result, it has a respectable standing in the world. ... This will decrease conflicts and war that occur due to territorial issues. ... There are many wars that happen due to territorial issues (Frieden, Lake, Schultz, 2014). ... When nations decide to disregard boundaries drawn by history, culture, language, and religion, there will not be unnecessary tension and war. ...

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The company blamed for the disaster, Lapindo Brantas, is a subsidiary of the business conglomerate of billionaire Aburizal Bakrie, a Golkar (the largest political group in Indonesia) parliamentarian and major contributor to Yudhoyono's presidential campaign. ... As far back as Rome, which fell to corruption, later Germany, whose government was overzealous in war, and even as recently as Libya, whose lack of freedom led to violent rebellion against their oppressive government in the name of democracy. ...

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The company blamed for the disaster, Lapindo Brantas, is a subsidiary of the business conglomerate of billionaire Aburizal Bakrie, a Golkar (the largest political group in Indonesia) parliamentarian and major contributor to Yudhoyono's presidential campaign. ... As far back as Rome, which fell to corruption, later Germany, whose government was overzealous in war, and even as recently as Libya, whose lack of freedom led to violent rebellion against their oppressive government in the name of democracy. ...

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Globalisation The word globalisation has become a buzzword since its inception at the beginning of the 1990s. A cottage industry on globalisation has emerged from which academics and intellectuals make a living by writing articles and travelling the world debating with others. The financial and business sections of broadsheet newspapers are continuously littered with issues concerning globalisation and meetings are frequently held by the superpowers to discuss the state of the global economy, such as the meetings in Doha in Qatar, Cancun in Mexico and the IMF summit in Dubai. As a result of...

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The World Bank and the International Monetary fund (IMF) are both international institutions created at the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 to help reconstruct Europe after the Second World War. ... Evidence of this can be found in the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo under President Mobutu, who while he was in power gave foreign companies access to Zaire's vast natural wealth which includes an estimated quarter of the world's copper and half its cobalt and in exchange for his cooperation, Mobutu received support from major Western governments and investors including half of ...

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Furthermore, bilateral agreements often risk leading to trade wars, which disrupt normal trading relations. ... "It perpetuates technological superiority of the bug companies so that they can have control of the market and keep consumer retail prices far above what they would otherwise be if there were competition." ...

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