GLOBALIZATION

International Relations: Globalization, Conflict and Reform

International Relations: Globalization, Conflict and Reform

Assessment 1

Globalization

International affair is the field of that deals with the study of foreign affairs and the relationship between different countries. There are several relationships that lies between the countries these includes economic, social and cultural relationships and all of them has got crucial relationship between each of them. The diplomats and other officials that deal with the foreign affairs take several steps to promote the national communities and preserve their heritage such as issuance of the passport and maintaining peace talks. Globalization has played an important role in creating the importance of interdependent states. There are several alliances that can be seen these days between different countries such European Union and WTO that helps in creating strong international relationships and strengthening them. This is a fact that globalization has provided several benefits to the strong countries and cultures however this has also created difficulties for other countries to compete globally. Foreign policy plays an important role in justifying that how globalization affects the people and the government of any country. Diplomats still compromise and support their own countries views and ideas. Globalization has provided several benefits to the diplomacy in the form of improving communication and accessibility with other countries (Weiss, 2012, p.131).

Globalization means enormous increase in scales of world trade and processes of international exchange in open, integrated and borderless world economy. Thus globalization is not limited to the trade of product and goods but this also involves the currency flows, exchange of technology and other information's etc. Many economists regard globalizations as the world wide technological and economic change that fills the communication gap between isolated cultures. Due to increase in international trade and exchange of information between different countries has produced the medium for the cultural exchange between these countries. This exchange has helped in the development of the global issues at the local scale (Andreas, 2011, p.408).

Different researchers have got different interpretations regarding globalization. Generally as discussed above globalization is termed as the process of increasing the interdependence of the world's market and business. Different people and governments interpret ate globalization in their own way. Depending upon the status of the country globalization can have both pros and cons on the international relations and culture of the country. The highly developed countries such as United States, Germany, China and others that have got established economy are satisfied with the globalization. The different services and variety of products such as internet and telecommunication has played an important role in the countries having stable economies and government. The research conducted by Gardels shows that development in the communication and with the boom of aviation industry has provided an opportunity to the people to travel and communicate effectively to conduct their business on international scale. However there are some negative impacts of globalization on the people and government of countries that are exploited for resources usually by highly developed countries and such countries experience pressure of competition ...