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This is one of the Threats identified during a [SWOT] analysis of the current world situation.
National Governments are one of the threats facing the world today, as I see it.
- We live in a time of international chaos. The world is divided into about 200 nation states, each with a government which claims total power (or sovereignty) over its land and people.
- These governments, whether elected or dictators, do what they think is best for themselves, not what is best for the whole world.
- The borders of ex-colonies have often been arbitrarily drawn across tribal geographical or migrational boundaries.
- These countries are often small and neither economically viable nor politically stable.
- Dictatorships can take over nations and the UN has no right to do anything about it until the dictator threatens another nation.
- Often only military dictatorships can enforce discipline on poor people who are getting poorer due to national debt and falling world prices. Democracy stands little chance of growing in these countries.
- Islamic fundamentalism is spreading, establishing religious dictatorships which do not recognize human rights.
- China has been isolated from the rest of the world for 5000 years. Ruled by communist dictators and being one of the poorest nations on Earth, she is unlikely to take a full part in the world in the near future.
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