Cow Disease and Trade: The European Epidemics

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Cow Disease and TradeThe European Epidemics

• Question 4 What lessons for globalization
  advocates does this case raise?

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Question 4 What lessons for globalization
advocates does this case raise?

• Nations still look after their own autonomy first
  and foremost
• Nations look after their own best interest first
  and foremost

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Question 4 What lessons for globalization
advocates does this case raise?

• When dealing with things like diseases the
  separation of geographical areas, such as
  national boarders, is an important way to keep
  the diseases from spreading
• The same separation of nations lets us monitor
  things like SARS spreading and terrorist
  movements

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Question 4 What lessons for globalization
advocates does this case raise?

• True globalization would mean no enforced
  boarders and cows may free range from country
  to country
• People would move untracked from country to
  country without a trace
• Things like meat could be shipped without
  tracking where it came from thus not allowing
  diseases to be tracked

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Question 4 What lessons for globalization
advocates does this case raise?

• The best solution is probably somewhere in the
  middle where you still have autonomous countries
  but governing bodies like the EU
• It could be argued that the Mad Cow crisis has
  been handled better with the EU in place than it
  would have been without the EU

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Question 4 What lessons for globalization
advocates does this case raise?

• It seams the biggest problem the globalization
  advocates will have in the future is the
  tendencies for nations to put their best
  interests above the common goal