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"The Trump Doctrine and Globalization By Ed Krapels"
on: February 17, 2017, 00:51

THE BLOG 02/15/2017 11:28 am ET
The Trump Doctrine and Globalization
By Ed Krapels

Donald Trump’s election presents an opportunity for American institutions — business, universities, governments, non-profits — to reexamine their own policies towards globalization and determine whether these need to be “rebooted.”
For globalized U.S. citizens, the question is simple but the answer complex: “Even though I have thrived, the Trump election indicated scores of millions of fellow Americans have not.”
For globalized companies (think Apple), the question is more complex: “Can I be an American company under President Trump’s emerging new rules?”
For the country’s leading universities, who have accepted more and more (full-paying) foreign students and fewer Americans, do they still want to be “global” if there’s an increasing cost associated with that in terms of separation from resurgent “nativism” (the ugly word) or patriotism (the noble word)? Will they tack back to wanting to be more focused on being great American universities?
That’s the American side of the story of disenchantment with globalization. There’s also a lot of evidence for widespread worldwide disenchantment with globalization. The imposition of American culture, business, and politics has been resisted if not rejected by the representatives of the majority of the globe. Back in the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed, political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously wrote that the end of the Cold War was “the end of history.” It was a defining moment to be sure, but it was not the end of history. It’s not unreasonable to say that the American model has been rejected by the Middle East, Russia and China. We are unwelcome neo-colonialists in many parts of Africa, Latin America and Asia. [...]

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Lindsey44

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Re: "The Trump Doctrine and Globalization By Ed Krapels"
on: March 5, 2017, 19:11

Gary Shteyngart’s representation of globalization happening in 2006 when the novel Absurdistan was originally published seems to be predicting the future of globalization based on what is continuing to happen today. As was discussed in this article we are reminded of the impact that Trump has on America and globalization. The article states that “Donald Trump’s election presents an opportunity for American institutions — business, universities, governments, non-profits — to re-examine their own policies towards globalization and determine whether these need to be ‘rebooted’”, and that because of this “the country’s leading universities, who have accepted more and more (full-paying) foreign students and fewer Americans, do they still want to be “global” if there’s an increasing cost associated with that in terms of separation from resurgent “nativism” (the ugly word) or patriotism (the noble word)?” This is relevant to the novel because Shteyngart was talking about his main character Misha being an international student and what opportunities/learning experiences that brought him with Trumps new rules about “immigrants” students like Misha will be unable to come to America to go to school and will miss out on these opportunities to gain a better education that what is offered in their country. Shteyngart was hinting throughout the novel that things need to change, while Trump agrees to this by saying “We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams” he is doing it in the wrong way by cutting off America’s connections and trading with other countries. This is very similar to Absurdistan where Abusurdsvani has created its own war within the country to try and get people to notice it and care about it, but instead of this happening it just wrecks the whole country and kills a lot of people. This, like what Trump is trying to do, lead to the whole country being destroyed, the novel was there as a warning to us of what could happen and we are about to watch it all fall apart before our eyes in the next few years just like Abusurdsvani did.

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