James' Global Scholars blog
Sunday, March 6, 2011
violence video
first violence in football
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Murder in Amsterdam
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Current Soccer hooliganism
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/6077451/united-states-egypt-match-scheduled-cairo-canceled
Sunday, January 9, 2011
In How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
America the... vulnerable
So how is it possible that Hollywood is now second to Bollywood? Is it really true that Las Vegas is now surpassed by Macao in gambling revenue (Zakaria)? Yes, I’m afraid so as the U.S. has begun to lose ground to Asia in a “post-Americanism” world (Zakaria). It seems former Asian followers do not seem to care about the United States anymore due to fact they are paving their own way. The world is becoming less about the United States and more about the globalized world community and the U.S. is not content wit the idea.
While it is true that the West is giving ground to the rest of the world, Historian Kishore Mahbubani believes that the West is still putting an unjust strangle hold on the globe. “The West is not welcoming Asia’s progress,” Mahbubani continues “its short-term interests in preserving its privileged position in various global institutions are trumping its long-term interests in creating a more just and stable world order (Mahbubani).” Groups like the UN, IMF, G-8 do not have the entire world working together. There are 6.6 billion people in the world so there should there be a more global decision-making process argues both Zakaria and Mahbubani. The nuclear weapons issue is not being solved by the West driven NPT and since the U.S. holds a large majority of the W.M.D.’s in the world they are really just “breeding global insecurity” (Zakaria). Another problem is trade liberalization. Just as the world economy was about to have a massive increase, the U.S. saw themselves as the possible losers of the boom and decided to decrease trade liberalization in turn hurting East Asia. Overall, many Asian supporters believe the U.S. and the west are being unjust to the Asian countries.
So where does the U.S. draw the line? Should it “learn to share power and responsibility for the management of global issues with the rest of the world” or should it ignore the signs of globalization and keep on moving as the super power it once was Zakaria)? There is no ignoring that the rest of the world has caught up. They have been able to follow the model of the United States and have grown quick (convergence theory). The United States has been pushing for global free markets for generations and now it has gotten its wish. There is no turning back. The United States and the West need to work with the rest of the world so a global middle class can prosper. This would mean a higher standard of living for the west and the rest of the world.