In today's globalized and ever-evolving international community, there are many global issues happening every day. It's as if the world is in anarchy and suffering from suffering, but no one is willing to take notice. While we don't have a World War II-type situation on our hands (Holocaust anyone), the many current conflicts and issues facing the international community are, to some extent, even more widespread than imagined 80-100 years ago . In the 21st century and, especially, in the late 1980s and 1990s, our world and our daily lives have been consumed by civil wars, ethnic cleansing, genocide, poverty, terrorism and many human rights violations. The freer we become as a Community, and the more States join the Family/Club of Democracy, the more reluctant we become to cooperate for the common good. In chapters 14-17 of Jones' textbook, we learn about the many failed peacekeeping attempts by the United Nations and other IGOs and NGOs regarding the many global issues facing the international community, and this was a thought prevalent in 1997, let alone now, in the second decade of the 21st century. After reviewing Jones' discussion of pressing global issues in the international community in both Chapter 14 and Chapter 17, I came to the conclusion that the most important global issues facing the international community; especially in the 21st century era there are human rights (which includes several things) and terrorism, especially after 9/11 and the Arab Spring. So, fundamentally, human rights in all their forms (from slavery, asylum, genocide, human trafficking, etc.) and terrorism (from chemical and physical to cyber) are the two global issues which I consider the most important. In the history of the modern human race, which for me would represent the last 500 years, I believe that we, the people of the
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