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Essay / World Politics - 1096
The theory of neocolonialism is a theory that was developed in the 1970s during decolonization to explain why third world countries were not developing more. Although decolonization was underway, it was largely a ruse, as neocolonialism still existed beneath the surface. As a result, the capitalist first world held back the third world through exploitation. Most of this exploitation came from multinational corporations (MNCs). Multinational corporations are the main cause of neocolonialism. Multinationals are companies that are headquartered in one country but operate in many other countries. These companies are very large, powerful and industrial; some even have a GDP higher than that of each country. Multinationals deliberately push countries down so that the countries they operate in cannot develop further. These companies are there solely to make as much profit as possible in as little time as possible. They also tend to withdraw their allegiance from the country they are in to the multinational itself, leading people to feel more loyal to the multinational than to the country itself and sometimes even immigrating to the headquarters of the multinational. the multinational. Some argue that multinationals actually encourage local businesses to prosper by encouraging competition, but most local businesses could never compete with these giant corporations. People also claim that they provide technology that would not otherwise exist and that contributes to their economic development. Even though they now have this technology, local businesses are still not able to compete with those companies that have so many choices at such low prices. Many defenders of multinationals also argue that they are truly part of the solution for third world countries, while third world countries disagree because... middle of paper..... .the thought that will really apply from now on is globalism. . The theory was developed to fill the void that realism and idealism didn't really fill because they were older theories. However, I believe that all three schools of thought can work together in our global politics, just as ideas do now. Although I think globalism fits best; I really don't think we will ever have a single school of thought that truly explains how world politics works, because they are all so different. We can take different aspects of all three to work together to meet the schools of thought according to our needs at the time. Because even though globalism helps with the technology we currently have, sometimes it is necessary to have the idea of needing a war ultimately (realism) as well as working towards a world government to help nation states to work with each other (idealistic).).