Globalization is the ends of the tendency in nature for organisms to maintain homeostasis
and develop growth. If we treat the nation-state or people group as an organism, globalism
is the place where those organisms meet. Instead of a stark dominance of strong groups
over the weak groups, we have cooperation and symbiosis. Both of the current major party
presidential candidates have a misunderstanding of how global cooperation works. One
talks about a trade deficit with China, and the other sells weapons to autocratic leaders and
rebel groups in order to promote what the current and past administrations see as “US
interests” (Irwin, 2016) (Thrall, 2016).
A true forefather of globalization, Immanuel Kant, proposes in Perpetual Peace that in
order to maintain peace nation-states should not interfere with the internal workings of
other nations (Kant, 1795). Interventionist foreign policy is exactly the opposite (Thrall,
2016). Isolating the United States from trading is protectionism, and does not build the
cooperation from globalism (Irwin, 2016).
The founding fathers were also proponents of global trade, but wary of being too biased
towards any. “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of
the foreign world” (Washington, 1796). “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations-entangling alliances with none” (Jefferson, 1801). Trade is a stabilizing and
positive venture, that eliminates the need for nations to dominate one another. Some
nations refuse westernized culture, and therefore their emergence into globalization is
slowed. This cultural difference creates anomie, and is the primary reason for conflict with
