And so I believe that at this moment we all face a choice. We can choose
to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration.
Or we can retreat into a world sharply divided, and ultimately in
conflict, along age-old lines of nation and tribe and race and religion.
[...]
In order to move forward, though, we do have to acknowledge that the
existing path to global integration requires a course correction. As
too often, those trumpeting the benefits of globalization have ignored
inequality within and among nations; have ignored the enduring appeal of
ethnic and sectarian identities; have left international institutions
ill-equipped, underfunded, under-resourced, in order to handle
transnational challenges.
And as these real problems have been neglected, alternative visions of
the world have pressed forward both in the wealthiest countries and in
the poorest: Religious fundamentalism; the politics of ethnicity, or
tribe, or sect; aggressive nationalism; a crude populism -- sometimes
from the far left, but more often from the far right -- which seeks to
restore what they believe was a better, simpler age free of outside
contamination.
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