<P> Military cooperation--Past examples of international cooperation exist . One example is the security cooperation between the United States and the former Soviet Union after the end of the Cold War, which astonished international society . Arms control and disarmament agreements, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (see START I, START II, START III, and New START) and the establishment of NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Russia NATO Council, and the G8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, constitute concrete initiatives of arms control and de-nuclearization . The US--Russian cooperation was further strengthened by anti-terrorism agreements enacted in the wake of 9 / 11 . </P> <P> Environmental cooperation--One of the biggest successes of environmental cooperation has been the agreement to reduce chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) emissions, as specified in the Montreal Protocol, in order to stop ozone depletion . The most recent debate around nuclear energy and the non-alternative coal - burning power plants constitutes one more consensus on what not to do . Thirdly, significant achievements in IC can be observed through development studies . </P> <P> Anti-globalization, or counter-globalization, consists of a number of criticisms of globalization but, in general, is critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism . The movement is also commonly referred to as the alter - globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, or movement against neoliberal globalization . Opponents of globalization argue that there is unequal power and respect in terms of international trade between the developed and underdeveloped countries of the world . The diverse subgroups that make up this movement include some of the following: trade unionists, environmentalists, anarchists, land rights and indigenous rights activists, organizations promoting human rights and sustainable development, opponents of privatization, and anti-sweatshop campaigners . </P> <P> In The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, Christopher Lasch analyzes the widening gap between the top and bottom of the social composition in the United States . For him, our epoch is determined by a social phenomenon: the revolt of the elites, in reference to The revolt of the masses (1929) of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset . According to Lasch, the new elites, i.e. those who are in the top 20% in terms of income, through globalization which allows total mobility of capital, no longer live in the same world as their fellow - citizens . In this, they oppose the old bourgeoisie of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which was constrained by its spatial stability to a minimum of rooting and civic obligations . Globalization, according to the sociologist, has turned elites into tourists in their own countries . The de-nationalisation of business enterprise tends to produce a class who see themselves as "world citizens, but without accepting...any of the obligations that citizenship in a polity normally implies". Their ties to an international culture of work, leisure, information--make many of them deeply indifferent to the prospect of national decline . Instead of financing public services and the public treasury, new elites are investing their money in improving their voluntary ghettos: private schools in their residential neighborhoods, private police, garbage collection systems . They have "withdrawn from common life". Composed of those who control the international flows of capital and information, who preside over philanthropic foundations and institutions of higher education, manage the instruments of cultural production and thus fix the terms of public debate . So, the political debate is limited mainly to the dominant classes and political ideologies lose all contact with the concerns of the ordinary citizen . The result of this is that no one has a likely solution to these problems and that there are furious ideological battles on related issues . However, they remain protected from the problems affecting the working classes: the decline of industrial activity, the resulting loss of employment, the decline of the middle class, increasing the number of the poor, the rising crime rate, growing drug trafficking, the urban crisis . </P>

What evidence supports the conclusion that increase globalization is inevitable