How Global Geopolitical and Elections Are Connected
Final Paper Question:
In April, the French President Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen to win his second term in office. In the wake of Brexit and global authoritarian movements, the international community implored French voters to support Macron. In your essay, analyze how national elections are connected to global geopolitics. Be sure to use three themes from the course in your response (nationalism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.)
You may want to consider the following: What makes this election so important? What do the two candidates (Macron and Le Pen) represent for Europe and the rest of the world?
Some possible resources:
https://www(dot)theguardian(dot)com/world/2022/apr/22/france-election-vote-macron-leaders-germany-spain-portugal-le-pen (Links to an external site.)
https://apnews(dot)com/article/2022-french-election-voting-results-f5b549e3b99930ee05bed17a9d3870b6 (Links to an external site.)
https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/live/2022/04/25/world/macron-french-election (Links to an external site.)
https://www(dot)washingtonpost(dot)com/opinions/2022/04/25/marine-le-pen-france-elections-mainstream-macron (Links to an external site.)
Instructions:
Your paper should be 1000-1200 words or about 3-4 pages. Please pay careful attention to spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Remember that citations are required for both paraphrasing and direct quotes from either the text or lecture. Feel free to cite other books and articles as needed. Include a full list of works cited at the back (APA, MLA, or another citation standard). Please submit your paper on the course website under "Final Paper" by 5 pm on Tuesday, June 7th, 2022. If you have trouble submitting your paper online please email it directly to your TA.
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How Global Geopolitical and Elections Are Connected
Introduction
This essay seeks to analyze how global geopolitical and elections are connected. Understanding how local politics are linked to global geopolitical is significant. Thus, local politics influence neighboring countries, impacting a particular country's social and economic factors. In addition, Politics and demography are influenced by economics and geography, which also includes a state and its foreign policy. An example of geopolitics includes climate agreement, territorial acknowledgment, border or territorial, war treaties, and trade agreements. An excellent example of global geopolitics includes Kyoto and NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) protocols. Notably, Marine Le Pen was defeated by Emmanuel Macron to clinch the France presidency in April. However, in the wake of global authoritarianism and Brexit, the international community implored the voters in France to support Macron. Therefore, these connections can threaten democracy and the world at large.
Discussion
Leaders from Portugal, Spain, and Germany publically backed Emmanuel Macron in the presidential runoff. The leaders believed that voting for Emmanuel Macron would result in a more robust, democratic, and free Europe taking a swipe at Brexit. Indeed, this is an unusual intervention in the election of the country António Costa, Pedro Sánchez, and Olaf Scholz considered that the French election was unlike any other (Alimardani, 171-192). Portuguese, Spanish, and German chancellors hoped that Emmanuel Macron had a better vision of Europe and France. The April vote was between an autonomous EU of a democratic candidate who believes that France is powerful and more potent and an extreme right candidate who attacks the democracy and liberty of Europe.
Geopolitical in France needed a country that was the heart of Europe and defended the common values in a generous and more vital Europe. Brexit instead disrupted the transport and supply chain leading to the downfall in inflation rate and foreign trade more than in the Eurozone. Nationalism has become the primary viewpoint of geopolitics benefits in France. The France case study shows that nationalism is associated with geopolitical issues with implications for international and national security, considering its rapid growth and development (Henley, 1 – 4). The benefits of globalization are the main engine of the voter's choice diffused from the unequal world, resulting in fault lines between the poor and the rich in France. Such a situation raises tensions between the society in France and the state regime resulting in frustrations and mass delusion among various religious ideologies, national identity, and nationalism in France.
Imperialism and human geopolitics are provenance prehistoric. Human groups in France might fight with each other, make coercion alliances, and extract resources from others before inventing in states, cities, or writing. Furthermore, territoriality remains a feature of integration among the people of Europe, leading to a complete pretension of human imperialism roots, considering the more considerable biogeographical aspect (Leicester, 1 – 5). Over time, politics has become more hierarchical and complex, with cultural constructions an...