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Globalism is the apotheosis of the British doctrine of Free Trade. Under globalism, the concept of national sovereignty with respect to economic policy is effectively banned, and this ban is enforced by international agencies such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund. Proponents of globalism argue that it is necessary to eliminate protectionism because it is an impediment to greater economic efficiencies, which may be realized through the unrestricted movement of capital. Opponents of globalism hold that it is simply a disguised form of colonialism, and that rather than seeking to improve the economic performance of most of the world, it is designed to retard and stifle it, to maintain the Third World, in particular, as a vast reserve of cheap labor and cheap raw materials.
A provocative new book was recently released, which sheds some light on the relationship between Globalism and the doctrine of preventive war, as practiced by the U.S in Iraq. Entitled The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century, it was written by Thomas P.M. Barnett, who is the top strategist in the Office of Force Transformation (OFT), under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Barnett, who is otherwise on the
faculty of the U.S. Naval War College, promotes a new geopolitical doctrine, which is said to be hegemonic theory among Pentagon war planners.
Barnett argues that globalization is here to stay, and that the mission of the United States is to be the guarantors of the globalization system of free trade, which he equates with "democracy." There are two kinds of countries in Barnett's geopolitical framework: "Core" countries that are integrated into the globalization system, and "Gap" countries that are still outside the system. The "Gap" states are the hotbeds of terrorism, drug trafficking, crime, corruption and every other form of evil on the planet. Barnett argued, in a March 2003 essay in Esquire magazine, that summarized a power-point briefing that, he claims, he has given 125 times in recent years to military, banking, business and government leaders, that a preventive war against Saddam Hussein is both justifiable and necessary, not because of Saddam's supposed WMD or terror links, but because such an action by the United States would "...mark a historical tipping point--the moment when Washington takes real ownership of strategic security in the age of globalization."
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