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Communitarianism, in the context of international development and globalization, is an ethical approach which encourages an increased consideration of national borders. It proposes that the communities which exist within these borders should be increasingly concerned with their own well-being. These communities are said to share common values and relationships that can not be properly transferred to others outside of the community. The idea that moral decision making can only be performed within a community of people sharing a similar social context is promoted.

International Issues
Global Governance and World Government

Global governance is the political interaction of transnational actors aimed at solving problems that affect more than one state or region when there is no power of enforcing compliance. World government is the concept of a political body that would make, interpret and enforce international law. The concept of governance or government operating on behalf of all communities is in opposition to the views of communitarianism. Assumed is the ability to offer encompassing ethical decisions through a single body which represents, according to communitarianism, members that have no moral obligation and possibly no relationship to one another. International development (aid, inequality)

Distribution of Wealth

As with all issues, the distribution of wealth will be promoted by a communitarian only when it would provide benefit to the local community. There is no moral obligation to promote a more even global distribution of wealth. A possible pathway for returned benefit from the redistribution of wealth could be the increased stability and reduction in crime often associated with economic equality resulting in a decrease in threats of international violence imposed on the national community.

Criticisms
Communitarianism is in direct contrast to the ideas of cosmopolitanism which promotes the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single community and that each person is morally obliged to promote the well-being of all others despite geography or circumstance.

People
Amitai Etzioni