America: The Safehouse of Sovereignty

When asked the question, "What is the most important issue in world politics today?", the average American citizen would simply  reiterate would he or she heard from common mass media sources: Western aid to unindustrialized societies, the AIDS/HIV epidemic, the War on Poverty/Drugs/Terrorism, etc. Although, many Americans fail realize the true, "umbrella" issue at hand - the slow, yet steady, death of national sovereignty. This issue does not pertain solely to the United States, but to all nations. Essentially, this issue can be conceptualized by one example, the creation of international law. International law serves one purpose, to submit each nation and their populations to the regulation and authority of a collevtive, international governing body. Such bodies include, but are not limited to the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the G8 Summit, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, etc.

Without question, the death of national sovereignty can be attributed to exponential rise in support of the modern globalist movement since the 1990's. Although, the first globalist movement began at the end of World War I with President Wilson pursuing the formation of the League of Nations, it has gone far beyond the orignal intentions of the extended use of diplomacy over armed conflict, and international economic interdependence through the abolition of trade barriers and global free trade (The American Pagent, Bailey). The movement has evolved and taken on a more "Orwellian" slant by the support of essentially a single world government and the institution of global "fair" trade (Profit over People, Chomsky).

What this boils down to is the underlying, subconscious objective of the modern globalist movement, the eventual elimination of the nation-state through the creeping regulation and intervention of world governing organizations. This could possibly result in the complete disapperance of the free enterprise system and the elimination of individual rights (The Virtue of Selfishness; Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Rand). This also clearly defines the pretense of anomisity toward the United Statesheld by many globalist-minded intellectuals - our clear resistence to growing globalist attempts to subvert our sovereign rights as a free and independent state, such as the refusal of the United States to sign the Rome Statute and recognize the jurisdiction of both the ICC and the ICJ (Failed States, Chomsky). Not to mention other bold actions the U.S. has taken that has reminded the world, and many angry globalists, that the idea of the sovereign nation is not dead: containment of Communism from 1950 to 1991, the defeat of the former U.S.S.R. through shear domestic military production power, refusal to adopt the globally popular European model of the the welfare state, the continuation of the War on Terror alone, etc. (The American Pageant, Bailey). Simply put, the United States is the vanguard, if not the last strong hold, of national sovereignty, and we exemplify this through the preservation of American interests.