Critical Analysis of Globalism's Failure: A Source Evaluation

This assignment critically analyzes the factors contributing to the failure of globalism, drawing upon Bremmer's article, "Our 'Us Vs Them' World: 5 Reasons Why Globalism Is Failing." The analysis explores the economic impacts, including challenges in free trade and the outsourcing of jobs, as well as societal and cultural shifts where individuals prioritize domestic opportunities, often influenced by political figures like Donald Trump. Security concerns are also discussed, particularly the prioritization of national interests over global cooperation. The assignment further examines the impact of technology, including social media's role in spreading negative news and the effects of automation on employment. Finally, the assignment evaluates the credibility of the source article using the CRAP test, assessing its currency, reliability, authority, and purpose to determine the validity and usefulness of the information presented.

Evaluate a source

Our 'Us Vs Them' World: 5 Reasons Why Globalism Is Failing
Globalism is define as an ideology which is based on the belief in which people,
information and goods ought to be able to cross the national borders unfettered (Bremmer, 2018).
Few factors are defined below:
Economics: Free trade helps in maintaining the appropriate flow of goods, services, innovation
and investment in different nations. But all the countries in the globe are not based on the
virtuous cycle significantly. Countries are facing issues and conflicts at the time when
opportunities are sent to overseas for the purpose of profit. This is the major reason for failing
the globalism.
Society and Culture: Individuals prefer to cross domestic boundaries for growth options. In the
situation of conflicts regarding to their lives, livelihood, status and entitlements, workers or
employees are demand high in against of cheap labour and unknown faces. Donald Trump
understands the situation and then restricts outsiders, which create value for domestic people to
get opportunities and create negative influence on globalism.
Security: Main concern of Trump is to protect their own interests rather than other and for this
he makes appropriate changes in the government policies to restrict other involvement in
employment and other fields. This will impacts others culture collision and negatively impacts
globalism.
Technology and Filter Bubbles: Usage of internet is quite normal. But this emerged due to
social networking sites and chambers had made huge impacts on the individual life of their
respective town. This will generates the trend of floating negative news and this should results in
downfall of globalism.
Technology and Automation: The expected cost of automation and AI is around 400 to 800
million people their jobs by the year of 2030. due to high advancement in robotics, the economic
growth power restricts to few hands only and others left the work. This results in unemployment
and reduction of globalism.
CRAP test:
It is developed by molly beestrum which is more useful to decide whether the particular
website is credible and having valid source or not. It mainly concentrate on four major areas
which includes currency, reliability, authority and purpose. In order to evaluate the source, it is
important to evaluate these four areas. It can be further described as under:
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Currency: It includes whether the information available in website is updated and
available topic is useful for the topic people search for. In the selected source, the information is
related with year 2017 which is one year back information. It is more useful for the ministry and
people of nation to identify the reasons of failure of globalisation.
Reliability: It includes the types of information available in website and whether the
available content of the resource is primarily opinion and balanced. The credibility of
information along with its quotation by creator is clearly identified are included in this aspect.
Times is well known for providing accurate and reliable information about the current affairs of
nation. In the chosen source, the information related with failure of globalisation is gathered with
the help of their journalists who are worked in USA to bring latest updates to the nation.
Authority: It includes the name of author along with its proper background details, name
of sponsor and their reputation, interest of publisher and availability of advertisement are
identified. In the selected source, IAN Bremmer is the author name who has written this article.
TIME is the sponsor of presenting the article with an intention of communicating people about
the downfall of Globalism. The advertisement is shown in context with supporters of Trump
supporter waves a pro-Trump sign during a pro-Trump rally.
Purpose: It includes the opinions described by author along with proper quotation, the
information available on website is whether biased and what are the main objectives of author
they trying to convey to people. In the chosen source, the author has described its view and
opinion about the reasons of failure of globalism. According to the mentioned article, it is not
even biased as it clearly mentioned the result of failure of globalisation.
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REFERENCES
Bremmer, I., 2018. Our 'Us Vs Them' World: 5 Reasons Why Globalism Is Failing. [Online].
Available through: <http://time.com/5264653/us-vs-them-globalism-failing/>.
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