The author chronologically explains the progress of the world unification. He gives many examples of events that allowed a world more unified and also ideas that emerged more than a millennium ago and effectively contributed to states unification, evolving from the old political style based in a tribal government to the world that we know today.
The ideas of unification mentioned by the author are practically the same that I mentioned in my issue paper: wars are in the opposite side of world unification, in the very begin of the path that takes the men to a closer world. He cites Hugo’s Grotius book The Laws of War and Peace as a view of the effects of war in the people’s union; however, the American civil war revealed a flaw in the system proposed by Hugo according to the author of the article.
He shows another factor that our class readings did not make me realize: the human’s greed. The explanation of this factor contributing to the distance of people is the looking for power and luxury. People do not know how to handle power it becomes a reason to see the other as inferiors, consequently a view of people not being equal do not results in a world unified. Those in the power decide who will be the lord and who will be the slave.
It is also explored, although briefly, the power that the unification creates. The Roman Empire is a good example in which they unified one third of the planet and became the one of the most powerful empires that we have ever heard about. In fact, the extensive lands conquered and the bigger variety of resources acquired after those conquers could be linked to the success of the Roman Empire, although it is relevant to discuss the impact caused by the people’s unification in the process of domination performed by the Romans.
Lastly, the religion indifferences are another major issue that does not help in the world unification. We will not be able to achieve the ultimate level of unification if events such as the holocaust against the Jewish people, hate between Islam and Christianity continue to happen in the future. Independently of the fact that religious hate commonly leads to conflicts, at least a mutual respect should be present as a an essential factor for a “closer” world.
World’s citizenship is a delicate issue that it can be seen from many different perspectives as well as the the benefits of it. I feel more comfortable to talk about this theme after finding more historically examples of the process of unification that the world has been living in the past centuries. The article “World Unification?” will add great information in my final research paper and every information found by me about the subject is very valuable since I realize that not that many citizens discuss the subject deeply as other themes.
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