From this point, no return
the Necessity of Sustaining Globalization
Prior to the events of September, globalization was able to
remain a more or less purely academic debate. Since September 11, sustaining
globalization has very much become a necessity. Globalization is indeed part of
the problem, as Robert Wright
concedes, but it's also essential to the solution.
The ultimate conclusion of this article rests in future
events - the undiscovered country to which globalization threatens to take us.
But its thesis is this: should we not find the way - through Friedman's,
Wright's, or James's visions of globalization - to speed globalization up and
extend it to all the peoples of the world; to bring them all into the fold; to
solve this Achilles heel of globalization - we are doomed to war, Depression, or
both or worse.
And in this age of nuclear weapons, such a war - either a
world war or one between the West and rogue states or super-empowered angry men,
could very well spell the end of our civilization as we know it.
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