The Dialectics of Globalization and the Rise of Populism: Selected Issues in Perspective

This paper examines the dialectical nature of globalization and the rise of populism incontempo-rary world politics. Unequivocally, thesubject of globalization has become one of the prepon-derant issues in the 21st century.UsingLibrary Research Methods, the paperscrutinizes the inherent contradictions in the globalizedworld alongside the resurgence of populism in the de-veloped world. This work contends that the new wave of protectionism and populism by the engineers and architects of globalizationrepudiates the logic of globalization and is itself contra-dictory.It finds that theunprecedented backlash of globalization servespopulist individuals and groups as atangible claim to justify their anti-global aspirations in appealing to the people again-stestablished global agents and institutions. It concludes that, although the backlash of globali-zationhas been used by ambitious populists promise a quick fix, theincreasing vulnerability of the international system cannot be resolved by clinging to national pedigrees as the ultimate so-lution. The problems and challenges of current globalization are problems without passport and demand solutions beyond borders through the same logic of globalization.It recommends the realization of sustainable development goals as a reasonable point ofdeparture for national, re-gional and international bodies