Interrogating the Challenge of Domination in the Contemporary World

Abstract

This paper discusses contemporary global problems, emphasising domination as the root of other world challenges. Recent studies on world history focus on either poor leadership or poor infrastructural facilities as banes of underdevelopment in third world countries. This paper shows that the nature of relations among countries is the major factor that influences other challenges in the world. More specifically, the paper demonstrates that imperialism, with its variant manifestations of domination, colonialism and neocolonialism, is the major factor that creates other problems, both at local and global scenes. The paper uses largely secondary sources to maintain that third-world countries have faced a series of problems, including poverty, poor infrastructures, poor leadership, corruption, insecurity, environmental issues, etc. These challenges, according to this paper, have foreign influences. Therefore, the nature of relations among countries at the global level has to be altered radically for peace and development to reign in underdeveloped countries.