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How Globalization Promotes War
by Steven Staples, The Polaris Institute
August 29th, 2003
from United for Peace
Globalization, more correctly called corporate globalization, is founded upon a conservative, free market-oriented worldview that seeks to limit the economic impact of government actions.
The institutions and agreements that codify globalization, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), place restrictions on government services and regulations that might inhibit corporate profits — while championing the government’s role in providing national security.
1. Globalization promotes the conditions for war.
Ethnic and religious differences mask the underlying economic causes of the more than 30 wars raging around the world today. Inequality, competition for dwindling resources, and environmental degradation are factors in the outbreak of armed conflict that are worsened by free trade.
Globalization undermines the ability of governments to regulate and mitigate the damaging effects of the market, which leads to an intensification of all of the economic causes of war.
Globalization and War 2- Militarism
