Is a global economy the road to world peace?

Question

As countries become more and more dependant on each other and have more and more business interests in other countries, will going to war become less common since it would have detrimental affects on the economy of the country waging the war?

Answer 1

Peace is a mirage. You might think you see it ahead, but you'll never really get there.

Answer 2

No way! This is just the beginning of a clustered mess! They will not ever have the values? Read King Solomon? The answer is there. He married everyone in all those enemies countries linked to royalty and had to hide the financing but he was generous and they had economy but he knew the power crazed individuals were never going to be fair! It is man's nature to be competitive, and in most cases biased and unfair! we definately have opened the can of worms here. But don't get me wrong we had to do it with China and elsewhere but we better come up with a plan and quick or they will move to take over! Money is not their way, they are just using it as a tool, they all will! Like the Oil Moguls, they have a much different culture and it will never blend here in the Promised land! Sorry! They have deep seeded issues, and in need of serious therapy, but this economical thing is a temporary stay of execution for us, and the plan that Bush resorted to was Clinton's so we need to thank him for the use of the bandaid on a bullet wound eh? There is no way they are going to stop now! They are going to push us to the limit with economy and then demand upon our laws and rules. And people at Capital Hill inevitably will appease them and history will repeat itself! They already own half of Washington State and BC Vancouver since 1990! Korea owns the land surrounding the SeaTac Airport since the 80's now what? Blaire and Bush wow what a team?

Answer 3

Countries, like people, look out for their own. If one feels it has been wronged it fights for itself. History shows that our economy prospers when we are at war. We pay the price in young lifes. Big business such as Boeing, Lockheed, the arms industry, even auto companies that produces combat vehicles, and the companies that provide electronics, the list is endless. If you want a growing economy go to war!!

Answer 4

there will never be world peace!!

The United States remains, for the moment, the most powerful nation in history, but it faces a violent contradiction between its long republican tradition and its more recent imperial ambitions.

The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways. Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy. Britain chose to remain democratic and in the process let go its empire. Intentionally or not, the people of the United States already are well embarked upon the course of non-democratic empire.

Answer 5

Yes and no, it is the crossroads between modernization/globalization and countries holding onto their heritage. Thomas Friedman has an excellent book about it called, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: http://www.amazon.com/Lexus-Olive-Tree-Understanding-Globalization/dp/0374185522/sr=8-1/qid=1171146027/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5793746-0279236?ie=UTF8&s=books

Answer 6

Yes, it is our best hope.

“The common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade…with reason…not force as their final arbiter … it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability… and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward.”

“Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders.”

“there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires---if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another---if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn’t.”

Answer 7

Globalization is on its way. It'll not be good, with big governments and big corporations bring tyranny. When that's all here, there's going to be one world government, one religion, massive population control(about 75-80% reduction). Pretty much a very nightmarish future....

Answer 8

Here is fact for you.
No two countries that have a McDonalds has ever gone to war.
For the reason you given.

The radical Muslims are started by the very rich kids but not open their boarders.

When people travel and mix they find out the more we find out we have in common.

To answer your question. YES!

Answer 9

yes. I believe also, that countries must get out of the ' competitive' world and find another system overall in order to live. we must learn sooner rather than later that we are all important and should all have a say in what kills us or helps us. it kills them too, no matter who the 'others' are.

Answer 10

As long as the USA is on top of that economy otherwise run for your life!

Answer 11

I think we are seeing that with China right now, what ever they are saying to the N. Koreans has put enough presher on them to halt their nuclear test.