American Analysis: Nationalism vs Globalism

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Nationalism vs Globalism

By: Carlos L. Arce

I understand that the basic premises of globalism call for a world economy and a world government, or cosmocracy. It would be a wonderful level of human evolution to construct a single world government with effective authority over all nations. There seem to be two routes to this height of human achievement: one is the voluntary agreement of all nations, and the other is the violent and compulsory world domination of a superpower; let’s call it Pax Supremus.

In modern history, we have had two attempts at world domination that came close to succeeding; Napoleon and Hitler led those efforts. Yet, there has only been one real opportunity for absolute domination of the world, which happened during the years of 1945 through 1948, when the United States was the only nuclear power. It chose instead to fight a cold war against communist aggression and to present democratic capitalism, based on basic human rights, as the best alternative in the international competition for government models. This concept of government can be expressed in one word, freedom.

If, or let us say when, all major nations adopt democratic institutions and let their peoples control their governments, then transactional world government will be possible, in fact, inevitable. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened a window for this dream, only to quickly have it slammed shut by the rise of communist China. Ergo, back to the Cold War. This time, it is thousands of hydrogen and neutron bombs and at least nine countries armed with nuclear weapons. If humanity manages to avoid annihilation a second time, this, the second coming of communism, will also collapse. World government will be inexorable, as the issues of climate, pollution, overpopulation, mass extinction, and dwindling resources… make it so. Let us all pray to God that humanity can transcend this period of technological adolescence without destroying itself.