The Second World

Afghanistan and Pakistan These are two of the world most

embattled and dangerous countries.

In both countries suicide bombing is at it's height in futility and no one is typically concerned with the message of the bombing anymore.

Afghan's budget consists almost entirely of Western aid, however not even the West can restore order that the Taliban could.

Pakistan is the third largest recipient of U.S. Military assistance.

Mexico NAFTA was suppose to bring

Mexico into the first world in 1994, however, due to insurgency by the EZLN is was a failure.

Once mainly an oil export, Mexico's economy relies on manufactured goods for 80% of it's export.

Because China outpaced Mexico's manufactured exports to the US, over 300 companies shut down and 300,000 jobs were lost, directly correlating with illegal immigration into the U.S.

Brazil The size alone makes Brazil

South America's natural leader.

Brazil boarded every country on the continent except Chile and Ecuador.

Is the worlds largest exporter of beef, oranges, sugar, coffee, poultry, pork and soy.

Sao Paulo, Brazil is the worlds most important center of airplane design and production, holding the headquarters of Boeing and home of Airbus.

It took three revolutions to make Brazil Latin America's great power.

The Shattered Belt Arab civilization stretches from

the Atlantic Ocean across North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Mesopotamian Valley.

During the Cold War the region was declared a “shattered belt,” because it was said they could not attain political or economical unity of action because of marked internal differences.

Globalization is giving this region the opportunity to determine it's natural order.

The people are said to be more residence than citizens because of their lack of national loyalty.

The Former Iraq Centralized and Western

created Iraq has been disappearing in it's form and content ever since Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990.

The Soviet Union condemned Saddam for using the weapons they sold Iraq to invade it's neighbors instead of for defense.

Iraqis, now numbed by violence of the civil war, simply bury their dead and move on without a fight.

Most Iraqi's feel that they are worse today than they were under Saddam's rule.