Catalyze August 2022

More documents

Info

The Impact of Globalization on Diplomacy AMBASSADOR PATRICK THEROS (RET.) FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO QATAR Daniel Kerns: In your opinion , what do you think is one of the most important aspects to consider when you're trying to interact with individuals that may be from different areas of the world, but you're trying to form the same symbiotic relationship together . Amb. Patrick Theros: You need to know what it is that affects the interests of the other country. You need to know what affects the practical interests of the other country. And you need to know what affects the, for lack of a better term, irrational interests of another country. Just because war is far more dangerous and far more destructive to the world as a whole doesn't unfortunately make us think that everything is sort of automatic, make us think that it's mechanical or just a well oiled machine working and that we can approach every issue objectively rationally. We can calculate, we can feed all the inputs into a computer and the computer will kick out how it is that we can overcome these problems. What we have not yet figured out is how to deal with what we think is irrational on the part of the other guy and what the other guy thinks is irrational on our part. And you see this over and over again: we have a disagreement with somebody and we tell him that this is the way the world operates. CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 11
CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 12 The Impact of Globalization on Diplomacy Continued... This is where the money is, so you're going to have to join it. And the other guy sees this as an attack on his dignity. A good example in the United States is that we never truly internalized the effect of globalization on American industry. American factories were not being modernized because it wasn't profitable to. It was more profitable to shift the production of those factories to other countries or to cheaper parts of the country. There is a cost to this. The cost is the 10,000 guys who work at the factory in Youngstown, Ohio. They're out of a job. An economist will sit there and say, well you can retrain them. They can move to places where there are jobs. Nonsense. You can't retrain somebody who's been working the same job for 40 years. You can't ask somebody to move from Youngstown, Ohio to Atlanta, Georgia, because the house that he owns in Youngstown, Ohio has just lost all its value and he can't sell it for anything. These are intangibles that you have to account for. I'm using globalization as this shrinking of the world. And as for geography, I think in some ways, geography has not become less important. Knowing geography is even more important because now you're closer to everybody else. When you're fishing in your waters, you're killing, you're affecting the fishing in the next country's waters. When you're dumping, pollution into the Gulf Stream ends up in Norway. I think our biggest problem right now is that education has not caught up with the changes in the world and particularly human education, not STEM, not science, not technology, not math, but the kind of education that teaches you the history and teaches how to deal with other countries. That has not caught up yet.
Page 1 and 2: CATALYZE. B Y I D E A G E N August
Page 11 and 12: CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 2 THE ECONOMIC
Page 13 and 14: 2022 Winners Purpose Prize Learn Mo
Page 15 and 16: S T A R T I N G A N N G O W I T H T
Page 17 and 18: CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 8 S T A R T I N
Page 19: HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS & BREAKING INTO T
Page 23 and 24: THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY IN STEM
Page 25 and 26: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN HEA
Page 27 and 28: CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE GRACE KO
Page 29 and 30: CREATING RIPPLING EFFECTS IN AN AGI
Page 31 and 32: QUANTUM LEADERSHIP PODCAST SEPTEMBE
Page 33: Editor's Note Dear Ideagen Global F

Catalyze August 2022

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?