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3 pages in length. In his now-famous article that speculates upon the future, Robert Kaplan's (1994) vision is limited and simplistic, and encourages the creation of mental borders and what the postmodernists call territorialization. However, his theory also deserves to be completed with other elements since some problems he analyzes are defendable, and because he shows the environment is an important element in global politics. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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postmodernists call territorialization. However, his theory also deserves to be completed with other elements since some problems he analyzes are defendable, and because he shows the environment is an
important element in global politics. The paradoxical approach of Kaplans (1994) assertions are far more foreboding than merely a laundry list of global ills taking place everywhere else besides the
Western world. The extent to which he attributes third world components of poverty, disease, overpopulation, environmental degradation and "a culture of militarized gangsterism" (Gordon et al, 2000) to the
future Western civilization is both grand and far-reaching; that Kaplan believes these social, economic and political elements will all but eradicate America speaks to a grave misconception of how the
United States equates upon any level with the unadulterated melee that has long represented the condition of developing nations. Kaplans (1994) attempt to shift third world characteristics upon the future
of Western civilization is a lesson in futility, inasmuch as there is as much of a potential for this occurrence as there is for the Middle East to adopt democratic
governments anytime soon. The basis upon which he argues this assertion fails to recognize the inherent power and prosperity America upholds in spite of contemporary global challenges, serving as
the fundamental basis upon which the United States will remain unscathed by such unsavory realities. Where Kaplan (1994) does hit the mark, however, is with his understanding and appreciation of
environmental degradation and the impact it continues to have upon global progress. Chinas overpopulation, for example, is cited as a primary example of how the human species has proliferated
itself right out of any room in which to live. When it was realized how China represented nearly one-quarter of the worlds population on only 7.1 percent of the
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