Essay on the Rise of Populism in Most of the Nations

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1. THE CRITICAL ISSUES OF THE PRESENT DAY WORLD
POLITICS
The most critical issue in the context of the world politics today according to me is the
rise of populism in most of the nations. The prevalence of human rights still exist to protect
the populations from the different threats like that of the abuse from the government and the
neglect by the nation’s administration. In the recent political era there is a rise of the new
generation of the populists that is turning the protection level on the head of the state. The
general approach of the populists has risen along with the rising levels of public discontent
levels over the question of status quo present in the different nations 1(Jackson 2016).The
dreadful incidents of global terrorism and the drastic changes in the global technological
knowhow that shows the rising level of inequality highlights a level of political crisis across
the various nations.
The rise of global populism was initially observed in the Latin American nations in
the beginning of 1990s along with the new form of communist democracies of the countries
prevalent in the year 2000s. Most of the countries that includes UK, Netherlands, Hungary
and Poland have seen the surging waves of global populism in the last few years, which
became more prominent with the election of the US president Donald Trump in US as one of
the striking gains for global populism.
The most dangerous effects of populism includes the degradation of the formal
democratic principles and the ethics associated with the liberal institutions. The destructive
effects of the populist rule also includes the takeover and the courts that will oversee the
1 Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus. The conduct of inquiry in international relations: Philosophy of
science and its implications for the study of world politics. Routledge, 2016.

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democratic form of institutions along with the new laws that will limit the freedom granted to
the civil societies and the media of a particular nation 2(Kerr 2017). Populism is also
associated with the conflict that is evident in the different form of interest laws, in fading
away the degree of the financial transparency.
The second problem that poses a threat to the political stability of the world is the
global refugee or the global solidarity crisis. The refugee crisis is associated with the
increasing levels of violence, feeling of insecurity among the masses and the shortage of the
basic amenities for the population like food, medicine and the basic food requirement3
(Brown, Seyom 2018). Examples of the global solidarity crisis is evident in the case of the
Rohingya issue of Myanmar or the crisis in the Palestine Israel conflict. In this situation, the
wealthier nations still continue to prioritize the different policies that can delay the people in
seeking the asylum at an appropriate time. The Amnesty International reports that at present
the global refugees are 25.9 million refugees across the world 4(Rixen et.al 2016).
Several initiatives that should be taken up for solving this problem are the bilateral
dialogue that should be initiated between the source and the destination countries of the
refugees. The peacekeepers of UN are responsible for the protection of the refugee camps.
2 Kerr, Pauline, and Geoffrey Wiseman. Diplomacy in a globalizing world. Oxford University
Press, 2017.
3 Brown, Seyom. International relations in a changing global system: Toward a theory of the
world polity. Routledge, 2018.
4 Rixen, Thomas, Lora Anne Viola, and Michael Zürn, eds. Historical institutionalism and
international relations: explaining institutional development in world politics. Oxford
University Press, 2016.

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Several international bodies like the Inter Agency Standing Committee is responsible for
bringing together the different humanitarian agencies both within and outside the domains of
the UN system of peacekeeping through an well-coordinated action.
The two analysis that can be utilized in addressing the above mentioned global
political issues are Multilateralism and Polarization.
After Donald Trump became the President of the United States, an undermining
approach of the global multilateralism was observed in the entire world. There were several
instances that has marked the repeated instances of Multilateralism like the cut in funds
introduced by Trump for the Palestinian refugees that is UNRWA5 (O'Reilly 2017).However,
there was observed a withdrawal from the global nuclear agreements which was negotiated
with Iran. US was followed by several other countries either due to the approval of Trump’s
administrative policies or because of their approval of the global multilateral frameworks in
which they were not adequately represented 6(Blaustein 2019).
The ongoing tensions between China and the US along with the rising scourge of the
repeated trade wars has paved the way for rising multilateralism. The recent G20summit has
highlighted the imposition of new levels of tariffs within a few months, but it eventually
resulted in the potential political collision between the largest two economic superpowers. In
the beginning of 2019, there will be a rising zeal for the conversion of China as the leading
champion in the field of multilateralism which will refer to the various institutional
5 O'Reilly, Conor, ed. Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global
Dynamics of Policing Across the Lusophone Community. Routledge, 2017.
6 Blaustein, J., 2019. Book review: Conor O’Reilly (ed.), Colonial Policing and the
Transnational Legacy: The Global Dynamics of Policing across the Lusophone Community.

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framework that were already becoming dysfunctional such as the World Trade Organization
and the UNSC that will be idealized for the other nations 7(White and Daniel Linn 2018).
The issue of polarization mainly refers to the divergent approach of the different
political attitudes for the different ideological extremes of the society. In the context of global
political scenario, there can be two categories of polarization, first the elite polarization and
the second the mass polarization. The elite approach in polarization focuses predominantly on
the global political elites like the different party organizers and the elected level of officers.
However, the mass polarization efforts will focus mainly on the mass polarization patterns,
mainly the electorate and the general public of any nation. The mass polarization approach
can also be referred to as the popular form of polarization that will occur in alignment with
the differences in attitudes of a particular electorate towards the different global political
issues, the various policies and the other celebrated figures8 (Grant 2017).
There have been a lot of studies that were conducted to project the different efforts
given by the populist and the liberal section of the political parties which has caused the
democracy to move into danger in the verge of the global world politics Polarization has
resulted in tearing apart of the different democracies around the entire world. The political
personalities like Narendra Modi from India, RecepTayyip Erdigan from Turkey and
Jaroslaw Kaczynski from Poland who have recently tried to relentlessly inflame the basic
divisions that remained entrenched throughput the societal patterns. The leaders have resulted
in the aggravating of the various tensions not only by the way of demonization of the various
7 White, Daniel Linn. "Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy: The Global
Dynamics of Policing Across the Lusophone Community. Edited by Conor O’Reilly (New
York and Oxford: Routledge, 2018, 268pp.£ 115.00)." (2018): 1276-1279.
8 Grant, Damian. Realism. Routledge, 2017.

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opponents or by curtailing the different democratic processes for pushing away the radical
changes for instance the total ban on Poland’s abortion9 (Goddard and Daniel 2016)
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