Globalization

In general, global poverty is influenced by changes and the emergence of the global economy. Apparantly globalization was responsible for causing the erosion of soverignty-also known as the nation state. This was due to the emergence of market capitalism in which trade is more important than politics thus giving way to a weaker nation state. The nation state willingly surrendered to business and finance corporations. An example of this would be China becoming a communist country with an orthodox strain of Marxism. Hong Kong was returned to China, yet it was left autonomous rather than becoming completely ruled by China once more. In other words Hong Kong became a free zone city. A free zone city is a little island whosse business and finance is above that of the nation state. Thus business becomes self regulatory. Usually a nation state is viewed as a bad thing, and that this is not a normal way to regulate a country-as both a nation and a state that is a combination of both ethnic and political power. Apparently it seems that a country should be run either way(politically or ethnically) but not by both. This is why nation states generally lead to genicide and ethnic cleansing because a nation state is generally composed of a high number of a certain cultural group of people. This is most likely how the Holocaust in Germany started. If you weren't a "perfect example of the Aryan race" then your life was in grave danger.
Yet on the other hand, globalization weakens the nation state because it is oriented with profit making. So by choice, the nation state defers to global capital thus establishing it as an entity onto itself because it contains certain privileges and rights as well as capital privileges and rights.

Somali pirates have jumped into the global economy through piracy. The truth is that Somali pirates are not terrorists nor should be considered so negatively. It's their only choice because Somalia lacks cities for them to migrate to. They have given in to piracy as a way of making money. Here is a link that tries to clear up the negative stereotypes of piracy and cast Somali pirates in a more positive light.http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html