Thursday, July 22, 2010

Question #6

To win in world politics a nation must essentially become the most powerful superpower. The state must have the strongest position in the global economy as well and in global politics. But in addition to having power around the world the state must also be both politically and economically sound within its own borders.

In our game of diplomatic risk in order to win we simply had to achieve and plan towards one fairly simple goal, yet in actual world politics a nation leaders must focus on a plethora of different issues and work towards a goal that may seem simple, such as maintaining a certain amount of power around the world, but is complex and difficult to achieve. The superpower of the superpowers must import and export items that are vital to the economies of other nations, and his dependency must reach a point where if trade were cut off the stability of other nations would be in peril. This dependency then aids the powerful nation in securing a stronghold in global politics because it would be in the interest of most other nations to support the interests and needs of the superpower seeing as if the superpower is hurt they will feel it as well.

If the superpower were not both economically and politically stable it would be difficult for it to maintain or even build global dominance. In order to maintain economic stability there must be stability in the state’s government, so that order could be kept and things would run smoothly and efficiently.

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