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Re:U.S. Proposes Allowing Foreign Officials to Serve Warrant... by dredmorbius on Saturday July 16, 2016 @06:38PM (#12108145)
There are different flavours.

There's the League of Nations / United Nations model, which tends to be fairly constructive.

There's the "citizen of the world" / cosmopolitan model, which has tended to have egalitarian and idealistic overtones.

There's the Mont Pelerin Society / Atlas Network "Free Trade / Invisible Hand" globalisation model, which seeks benefits for transnational corporations and the plutocracy, without any safety nets or provisions for the mass of the world's population. This viewpoint is strongly adopted among many who align as "right", contrasted with left. Generally, neoliberalism. See Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, George Monbiot, Naomi Oreskes, or Bill McKibben as among its critics.

The populist conservative mode of xenophobic / nonalignment / isolationist tendencies is another element, and among the few which are specifically opposed to international engagement. It's hardly specific to any one nation -- you'll find it expressed among the populist conservative factions of the UK, France, Germany, much of the Islam world, Japan, Russia, and the United States, just off the top of my head.

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