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11 March 2018
A couple of years ago, Ne News brought you an editorial about how culture flows like a river, and that culture is never static. In fact, culture always changes, and has always changed due to influences of nearby cultures. Sometimes, cultures (such as African-American culture) often develop in isolation from its parent culture/s (you can view this editorial at http://nenews2016.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/editorial-evolution-of-culture-and-how.html).
This allegory of culture and how it flows like a river can also apply to international relations, and how it is never the same. International relations has been around for millennia, but it is never the same as the first time around due to it being like a river, in which it is always flowing. It started with relations between different (neighbouring) tribes all around the world either through peaceful means or through warfare. Then over time, we saw the emergence of city-states (like Venice), and then conferedations of city-states, and then the modern-day nation-states (which emerged through the Treaty of Westphalia that ended the 30 Year War in 1648 and forged the modern nation-state) (https://www.globalresearch.ca/western-civilization-the-final-crossroads/5631494).
At the current time, we are beginning to see the emergence of supranational entities such as the European Union, African Union and the Union of South American Nations in Europe, Africa and South America respectively; with a North American Union (in North America), Asian Union (in Asia) and Pacific Union (in Oceania) with a vision of a World Government down the track.
The step towards supranational entities has been controversial, with movements against these supranational entities, as well as a World Government with movements against the European Union being most noteworthy.
But while Ne News (as an internationalist website) is opposed to supranational entities, most movements against these supranational entities actually support voluntary cooperation while not yielding any national sovereignty to supranational entities, such as voluntary cooperation in education and research (which Ne News supports).
But as mentioned in the final show on Radio Fodder in July 2016 (when we looked at a hypothetical world in 3000), this can change in the future, and supranational entities may end up emerging again, but this time more representative of the people than the current supranational bodies, which are controlled by multinational corporations and are closer to fascism (it is worth noting that most of the supporters of these supranational entities that currently exists are from the extreme right).
But it worth noting that like culture, international relations are like the flow of a river in which it is always changing and once you worked in a particular environment, you can't return to it as it would be completely different the second time.
You can't step into the same river twice. And you can't negotiate in the same international environment twice.
11 March 2018
A couple of years ago, Ne News brought you an editorial about how culture flows like a river, and that culture is never static. In fact, culture always changes, and has always changed due to influences of nearby cultures. Sometimes, cultures (such as African-American culture) often develop in isolation from its parent culture/s (you can view this editorial at http://nenews2016.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/editorial-evolution-of-culture-and-how.html).
This allegory of culture and how it flows like a river can also apply to international relations, and how it is never the same. International relations has been around for millennia, but it is never the same as the first time around due to it being like a river, in which it is always flowing. It started with relations between different (neighbouring) tribes all around the world either through peaceful means or through warfare. Then over time, we saw the emergence of city-states (like Venice), and then conferedations of city-states, and then the modern-day nation-states (which emerged through the Treaty of Westphalia that ended the 30 Year War in 1648 and forged the modern nation-state) (https://www.globalresearch.ca/western-civilization-the-final-crossroads/5631494).
At the current time, we are beginning to see the emergence of supranational entities such as the European Union, African Union and the Union of South American Nations in Europe, Africa and South America respectively; with a North American Union (in North America), Asian Union (in Asia) and Pacific Union (in Oceania) with a vision of a World Government down the track.
The step towards supranational entities has been controversial, with movements against these supranational entities, as well as a World Government with movements against the European Union being most noteworthy.
But while Ne News (as an internationalist website) is opposed to supranational entities, most movements against these supranational entities actually support voluntary cooperation while not yielding any national sovereignty to supranational entities, such as voluntary cooperation in education and research (which Ne News supports).
But as mentioned in the final show on Radio Fodder in July 2016 (when we looked at a hypothetical world in 3000), this can change in the future, and supranational entities may end up emerging again, but this time more representative of the people than the current supranational bodies, which are controlled by multinational corporations and are closer to fascism (it is worth noting that most of the supporters of these supranational entities that currently exists are from the extreme right).
But it worth noting that like culture, international relations are like the flow of a river in which it is always changing and once you worked in a particular environment, you can't return to it as it would be completely different the second time.
You can't step into the same river twice. And you can't negotiate in the same international environment twice.
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