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By: Hontonnu Moses
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| Hontonnu Moses |
In your wildest dream, or occasionally, have you ever wondered or given a thorough and carefully accessed thought of politics beyond your shallow narratives? It's a complex and perhaps complicated phenomenon to see how world politics delves into political practices to unravel and seal agreement among the few powerful state actors or gladiators, representing or acting on behalf of the world in general.
Today, world politics seems more interesting in the eyes of global state actors and non-state actors because they tend to play diplomacy just to compromise or protect their own interests, as global politics doesn't give room for permanent friendship and enemies. This implies that, in international relations or in global politics, your permanent friendship now might turn out to be your worst enemy. In essence, a friendship that later becomes irrelevant and useless will probably be thrown out of the circle because there are no benefits to enjoy from him or her, and the relations among both may not be cordial. Over time, their friendship might turn out to be hostile while fighting to protect an individual's interests.
Global politics remains at the centre of political discourses because of the way and manner in which it is played, not just among the politically weak set of individuals but among historians, experienced political gladiators, intellectuals with different political capacities, diplomats, and political experts.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria fueled the first world war of 1914–1918 into a dramatic episode among countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific.
The outbreak of this world gave rise to many international bodies to help play a formidable role among the countries that were affected. The inability of League of Nations that came during the first world war, whose purpose was to put a halt to conflict and promote peace and unity, was rendered aborted, and for that reason, it was changed to the United Nations during the second world War II.
How would you imagine global politics without technocrats and intellectuals who are powerful politically and economically, inestimable calibres of actors that belong to the political voodoo in search of influence and world power, having the key to lock and unlock doors?
Walter Rodney, an historian who wrote the book "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," was later assassinated by his own people in his hometown, Georgetown, Guyana, South America. He wasn't part of the political voodoo nor a serving servant; he was totally against European domination and subjugation in Africa, and his reactions and revelations were clearly put into writing.
Undoubtedly, global actors who had in the past hijacked the superpower still belong to the political voodoo, a minority group of the powerful set of individuals, the traditions of the few. These people hold the global key to lock and unlock. They decide for the whole world, they turn the face of the world in any direction they want. They don't care if their interest would hurt the world; they are ready to strike anyone who is an encumbrance on their way to actualizing their interest. The global economy lies in their decision, and the global development lies in their hands.
The Voodoos in Global Politics! The traditions of the few.
You may begin to rack and crack your brain trying to understand what this short piece is driving at, but it's not meant for everyone; it's only meant for a few wise individuals.
Man lives with politics every day, and we cannot sideline politics, or else the world would only be static and tasteless. Life is politics, and politics is life.