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Topic - Select a political issue of global significance. Explain the issue and the things that are being done to address it.

What impact do you think globalization has on how this issue is being addressed?

Would it be handled differently if we were not in a globalized society?

In responding to classmates, address the issues that they chose. Do you think global attention on the issue makes it easier or more difficult for the nation to address?

Each reply post must be 2 paragraphs long and at least 1 source cited

Post 1 - Poverty is a serious global problem which everyone in the globe faces as there are more than 80 percent of the world's population who in live in countries where income differentials are widening. The poverty problem is super concentration because a small of group powerful countries have influence over world system.

According to UNICEF about 21000 children die each day because poverty in some of the poorest countries around the world. Globalization has made the governments of these poor nations and their people are often powerless and have no control over what impact them.

The increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization are global decisions and policies which typically influenced and formulated by the rich and powerful countries with the poor countries input. To able solved this global poverty problem across the world there should be improvement in living standard and access to all basic need to all people across the globe, with food, shelter, health and education.

Also creating a stable political, social and economic environment with equality to help reduce global poverty. While income inequalities may arise from increased global competition, income mobility will be positive will be positively affected by globalization by providing the poor countries with their citizens with better standard of living as they will gain more access to improved good and services from advance countries also globalization is mechanism that increases economic opportunity for the poor people to catch up with the rich.

Without globalization every country will have handle their social and economic problems by themselves without getting international help. Due to globalization and the technology every country's problem is now world problem .For an example because poverty and inequality in some part of the world their citizens are fleeing to Europe seeking better living which has created immigration crisis which has impacted every country across the world..

Post 2 -

The issue of Cybersecurity has become heavily debated for the past few years with the U.S. Department of Justice leading a current investigation into a possible plot by Russia to manipulate the presidential election through hacking into classified servers and by leaking information (WADDELL, 2017). This past summer France experienced its own cyber-attack when data from President Emmanuel Macron's campaign was stolen and made public just days before France's national election (Reuters Staff , 2017). Experts conclude that as time passes, the threat of stolen classified information will eventually become the new means for waging political warfare.

The course of action to combat this problem has ranged from developing software that is more resistant from security breaches to the implementation of polices by government designed to punish individuals responsible for the breach of information. The 2013, the release of classified information by former NSA employee Edward Snowden led the U.S. Congress to pass both the Cyber Security Information Act and the USA Freedom Act which are designed to have any breaches from a business reported to the government and prevents any practice of bulk spying (WADDELL, 2017). Many other foreign countries have followed suit and passed their own laws to curb hacks.

As globalization is rooted in the practice of international exchange, it directly intersects with cyber security. Allied forces around the world have intelligence agencies that regularly share and store information with one another. If even one of these countries falls prey to a security breach, it could seriously jeopardize their standing with other nations that may feel they can no longer be trusted with classified documents. Continued cyber-attacks may eventually lead to nations developing restrictive policies with allies which could eventually cause a breakdown in foreign relation practices such as The United Nations Organization.

The move of our society towards becoming more globalized has affected the priority of cybersecurity. If our society was more closed ended, the level of concern would be lower as less information would be at risk to be disclosed or made public and intelligence data would not be transplanetary (Ritzer, 2014, p. 186). Ultimately, cybersecurity is a difficult issue to control and as hackers become more sophisticated in their strategies, it is the task of nations around the world to remain diligent in their efforts to reduce security breaches.