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Introduction:
Dennis Sandole describes how integrative exchanges are superior forms of power and coercion.
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Power and Coercion
Dennis Sandole
Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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It reports on parts of the world that American news rarely touches. On the
BBC news I see Sierra Leone, I see Democratic Republic of the Congo, and I see
parts of South America. I see the horrors that are going on out there that we
are not paying attention to for reasons of preventing dissonance. How can we be
so good if in fact we are allowing most of the world to go down the tubes? Which
by the way is not even merely ethical or unethical and immoral it is
impractical. It is in our best interest to make sure the rest of the world is in
good shape for a variety of reasons. Then we don't have 10,000s of illegal
immigrants. I remember years ago people saying how would you deal with the
people from Mexico coming across the Rio Grande? Would you have more troops on
the TX side? I said no. I would invest in the economy. Mexico has oil. The Germans built a
Volkswagen plant there which there about to close because the beetle is not
selling to well. Invest in the Mexican economy. Invest in the economies of all
of the Latin American countries. Get the Argentineans and the Brazilians to do
likewise, and that way you can deal with illegal migration and immigration.
Across borders people are suffering. Being caught in containers in the 115
degree temperature and suffocating as they are being brought across, all that
can be prevented. Organized crime plays a role and it could all be cut down by
investing in their economies.
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