We Are Not The World By Greg Ip Summary

This article We Are Not the World by Greg Ip is about “the World”, but not just “the World”, but its electoral politicians and they’re political views on some global matters, such as currency and trade, but before the politicians go into that matter, first they must choose a side, and if they’re “all for one and one for all” or just all for one and none for all. And that is where this article begins, with a French politician woman named Ms. Le Pen, and what are her political views on the matter, which is “Now, the dividing line is not between left and right but globalists and patriots”, and by that she probably meant that the electoral politicians aren’t just running for a political position against a democrat or a republican anymore, but

They have underestimated the collateral damage that breakneck globalization has inflicted on ordinary workers, placed too much weight on the strategic advantages of trade and dismissed too readily the value that many ordinary citizens still attach to national borders and cultural cohesion. Ip, G. (2017).
With that, the earliest background of globalism is found in economics, “Just as two people are better off specializing and then trading with each other, so are two cities and two countries. “All trade, whether foreign or domestic, is beneficial,” Ip, G. (2017), which was written by a Britain economist in 1817, by David Ricardo. And in the middle of the 1800-1914 in Britain was where
“the first great age of globalization”, tough the leaders weren’t so “I am globalist” belief, tough they did convert to free trade and a gold standard as a “purely domestic benefit.”, or so. But after WWII, the knowledge of globalism changed to a different direction, different to that of trade, that of grand strategy, by drawing back it’s many sovereignties to international organizations instead, the country can itself and the world much stronger than its own solely interest, as the article quotes from President Henry Truman, year 1947, “If the nations can agree to observe a code of good conduct in international trade, they will cooperate more readily in other international affairs,” Ip, G.