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Introduction

The fact that we have to face the problems of the world today is a consequence of globalization. In doing so, we must be aware that globalization is a globalization of our European spirit, of our way of life, of our technology, even of the atomic bomb, of our economy and of our society, and so we are partly responsible for what is happening in the world.

Globalization not only leads to improved standards of living and faster population growth through better care and medicines, but also relative impoverishment, unemployment, economic crises, left and right extremism, wars of religion and huge flows of refugees.

With regard to the negative effects of globalization on the Western world, they lead to general uncertainty, which manifests itself in a loss of confidence in political institutions. In the process, even the greatest achievements of the postwar period – the overcoming of nationalism and the unification of Europe – are challenged and compromised, as a result, salvation is sought in isolation and regions national authorities.

This aversion to established institutions and markets culminated in the election of US President Donald Trump, who – and this is the debatable nature of his political agenda – as a billionaire with the support of other billionaires and with the promotion of capital market games wants to bring the economy back to a new prosperity and a new size. To do this, he wants to separate the United States from the world market and bring back lost industries to the country.

All the little Trumpis : Victor Orbán, Jaroslav Kaczyinski, Gerd Wilders, Marine Pen, Beppe Grillo and in Germany the leaders of the PEGIDA and the AfD and their supporters, acclaim and proclaim by analogy, the exit of the euro zone or even the European Union. They forget that the United States can afford foreclosure and self-sufficiency because they have such a large domestic market that they can force foreign manufacturers to manufacture in the United States if they want to sell there. But who would still want to invest in the small countries that leave the European Union?

From a purely economic point of view, these nationalists would marginalize their countries and, without the support of other European countries and the European Central Bank, would have to defend themselves against the growing currency and the global economic turmoil. What means that a withdrawal from the European Union, can be read geographically as limiting Great Britain alone after the BREXIT, however if Britain can still be called so after a departure from Scotland the ” great. “

Their bearer of hope – Donald Trump – would not help those who would like to go out. He thinks only of America and only recognizes the strong. This is why he is obviously interested in the collapse of the power factor of Europe. Since the European Trumpis do not recognize the need to strengthen Europe to challenge America and the other great powers, they also turn out to be politically unfit.

Therefore, the growing dissatisfaction with the given conditions is not unfounded. It is the result of an inadequate development of economic theories, social ideals and the politics determined by them. As a result, disharmony has developed, in particular, by the development of wealth and income increasingly unequal. Aside from the lie of social injustice, a growing economic gap in demand is due to the high savings rate versus the profit from promising opportunities for innovation and investment. The gap in demand can only be offset by an increase in public spending or the fact that, as in Germany, excess demand is shifted abroad by export surpluses. In the current situation, however, growth rates have remained meager and favor almost only the richest. Only capital market games thrive and celebrate the breakthrough of ever-increasing market index markers.

To understand economic development and globalization, we need to analyze the underlying drives. It will be demonstrated that the driving forces and objectives of economic development and globalization are rooted in the particular intellectual development of Europe, which has developed from the ancient and Judeo-Christian heritage.

The naivety of the evaluation of current history, of social and therefore economic development, is based on a human image, according to which man has always been more or less structured and predisposed as he is in the present western world. . As a result, it remains incomprehensible why civilizations and cultures have developed differently and why it is not possible to introduce Western democracy in any social order. It is important to realize that the spirit of the people, their feelings, their will, their behavior, their self-confidence have developed over several thousand years and the development has not occurred in a similar way in the different countries. There is a lot of similarity among all peoples, but a lot of difference as well, and if these differences are not taken into account, no rational interpretation of social, economic and political conditions is possible.

An analysis of the world’s economic, social and political conditions also shows that it is not enough to compare power relations, economic development and natural resources, but that spiritual and especially religious motivations can be much more important drivers. political and social action. The failure of the United States in Vietnam, the Iranian revolution, the slight rise of the IS and its affirmation can not be explained otherwise.

It might astonish the contemporary reader that we are reducing the discussion of the problems of globalization to religion. Nevertheless, if we consider how other religious denominations, especially Islam, today determine the social ideals of Muslim countries and international politics, we must understand that Europeans also think about their intellectual heritage. and the resulting behavior. This must be taken into account especially in order to respond to other religious claims and to understand one’s own position. Therefore, since Europeanism has as roots, on the one hand, antiquity and, on the other hand, Christianity, it is permissible to reflect on their nature.

When we talk about Europeanism , we must not forget that it is itself a Western and Eastern component, both of which have become globalized. The authoritative countries for Western Europeanism were the United Kingdom and later the Anglo-Saxon world, dominated by the United States. Eastern Europeanism was represented by the countries of Eastern Europe, first Poland, but then more and more Russia with its expansion of the Black Sea to Vladivostok.

These two Europeanisms and their globalization have been in conflict since the founding of the British Empire and the Russian Empire. In particular, Russia’s wish to create a route to the Black Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, a direct consequence of the creation of a maritime power by Peter the Great, and was perceived by the British as a threat to their sea route to India. As we shall see, the resulting East-West antagonism continues to determine almost all the conflicts of the Near and Middle East, and is the cause of the East-West split after the October Revolution in Russia and is superimposed on current conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

To understand the current political problems, the nature of the East-West antagonism and the position of Europe will therefore have to be discussed. The lessons learned can help to understand the responsibility and mission of Europe and, of Germany, as the strongest economic power in Central Europe to overcome and convey East-West antagonism. This leads to the following structure:

1. Europeanism as the origin of globalization.
2. Western and Eastern Europeanism as the origin of the East-West contrast and their globalization
3. The crisis and the development of Europeanism in the globalized world.

To reflect on the East-West contrast and make it more understandable for Western readers, the intellectual, social and political motivations of Russia as a bearer of Christian salvation, the Third Rome and finally Eurasianism that increasingly determine Russian policy and also Poland’s antagonism against Russia will be dealt with in more detail.

In order to understand the effects of the globalization of Europeanism on non-European countries, their development has been described in more detail. Each country has its own problems and can influence world peace. Anyone who knows the history of colonization and independence movements in the tense relations of the East-West opposition can reverse these relationships. They will be identified by special letters.