Islam and Politics
Pakistan's agony
By Khalid Aziz
Sunday, August 03, 2008
In 1995, Stratfor, a private intelligence forecasting company, predicted that the next decade would be a period of increasing fragmentation and tension in the world despite unprecedented prosperity. The world in many ways would resemble the period from 1900-1914. The explanation lay in the co-relationship between prosperity and turbulence in the international system. When prosperity increases in the global system, it leads to integration of trade, thus creating dependency of developing countries upon the richer ones. Each state tries to influence and control the behaviour of other countries. This leads to increased political disturbance in countries which have happened to become the points of interest of the richer powers. On the other hand, developing states which lack both resources and skills need support of the richer nations for progress. Secondly the demography of the developing countries usually show a majority of the population within the youth range. This produces a demand to raise families and make people dependent on jobs. This could only be dealt with through economic growth.
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