Geopolitics Rivalry between Countries as a Global Issue

The writers also identify several other global issues, and these include; climate change, civil strife, terrorism, population growth, hunger, water stress and energy needs (Glenn 19, 20). Others are pandemics, cyber-conflict and global financial instability (Joseph 22). The refugee exodus from the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America to Europe is also a global concern (Lahav 10). Further, poverty is a global issue which 147 government heads in 2000 pledged to address by reducing the poor people globally to halve by 2015 (The Economist 1) Although many other global issues emanate from global geopolitics rivalries, the concept is hardly discussed n global awareness classes as a global issue and it is evident that unresolved conflicts involving global powers amount potential source of global threat and catastrophe. Global awareness studies sensitizes students on these facts and helps them to build flexible and open value system to cultures of other people in addition to recognizing and respecting diverse ways of doing things and so it is a component that should be discussed in such classes.

The suspicion and tension between different countries hinder fast and smooth developments. After World War II, U. S maintained a military presence in Japan, South Korea and the Philippines where America had fought during the war. The military presence was to prevent the rise of another great power to dominate eastern Eurasian and the Asian rimlands. In Asia, the US also used the strategy of instituting a regional political order to advance her interests. org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/the-threeways-we-get-china-wrong. jpg),Commentary Magazine. 2016 Deibert, R. The Geopolitics of Cyberspace After Snowden. The Canada Center for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, Canada. J. The Information Revolution and Power. Political Science Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 2014 Lahav, G. The Global Challenge of the Refugee Exodus.