Globalization has brought about new efficiencies in logistics, operations, cross border economic transactions, and through global organizations such as UN, IMF, and World Bank has provided new opportunities for world communities to discuss and address political and economic issues. Yet, globalization has been shifting sand blown around by old regional ethnic rivalries, religious factions, and new economic powers and new rogue governments.
World War II led the way to formation of UN as we know it today to prevent wars and help social developments and maintain human dignity in light of man-made and natural disasters. Other economic institutions such as IMF to help governments maintain their economic systems and assist in creating a balance between various currencies while World Bank provided a venue to assist with development of infra-structures for less developed and developing countries.
At the first glance, governments’ experiences with dramatic human sacrifices during WWII paved the way for genuine efforts by institutions to create honest global efforts to prevent global man-made disasters. However, 60 years later, the result of globalization has ended in amassing unbelievable foreign reserve fortune in the hands of China (China's Foreign Reserve Power) that can truly buy US military forces in its entirety, the US agricultural business with all its assets, and few other US assets, crippling or mandating US to do as it pleases. To further weaken the globalization positive development, after the fall of Soviet bloc, corruption from Eastern Europe (Eastern European Corruption) is beginning to find inroad into the Western Europe through their mergers with European Union. Other issues such as Iran and Kurds continue to hunt positive aspects of globalization.
Iran, to maintain its power internally, must create enemies externally to rally its population to support its regime. In doing so, Iran has allied itself with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria. In addition it has exploited the historical differences between the Shiites and the Sunnis (Iran vs. The World). There are other countries such as Korea, just to name a few, who continue to usurp the rights of their people and be a torn in the otherwise rosy prospect in the globalization path. In addition to the rogue nations, there are also regional ethnic issues in Africa, Asia, and Europe that keeps globalization progress slow and many ethnic groups subject to oppression. One such example is the ethnic group known as Kurds. They are spread from Western Iran to Northern Iraq, North East of Syria, and Southern Part of Turkey and into the West of Armenia. Oppressed by all governments, deprived of their rights, these ethnic groups are subjected to political oppression, lack of economic opportunities, and lack of access to power through peaceful means.
Globalization, like any other changing phenomena, is existential and dialectical. Therefore, we can keep writing about how to manage international corporations, how to manage global Human Resources, and how to manage many other business-related and management-related issues but the best we can do is to begin a more fundamental conversation about can we navigate through globalization rather than simply wishful thinking that we can manage it. 
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