Looking at the Anglosphere Part One - Page 2

John O’ Sullivan has called for an American policy that is pro-American while undermining the Super state structure of European Union. With many central Europeans countries allying themselves with America, France leadership in Europe can be threatened. While present German government has joined France as attempting to move the super Europe super state, there is no guarantee that the gambit will succeed in the long run. Germany needs to tie Central Europe to modern Europe and many Central Europeans want American presence in Europe to safeguard their security. So within the European Union, contradictions may exist that undermines the whole experiment.

James Bennett thesis begins with the premise that manufacturing supremacy begins with those countries with the best information technology. Bennett notes, “The United States, being the current leader in information technology while still possessing a large manufacturing base, is likely to be primary beneficiary of this process.” While critics have expressed concern that we are seeing an outflow of manufacturing jobs overseas, Bennett considers such observation misplaced. Bennett quips, “This is like fearing that the advent of steel-hulled warships in the nineteenth century would undercut British or American naval might, because it made irrelevant those nations’ mastery of wooden ship technology.”

The dominant economic activity in the world will be information based and Bennett states that this is economic development is moving beyond the corporate model that has dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The new economic model will exemplify by organizations that links entrepreneur, financiers and marketers. Those nations that encourage entrepreneurship will dominate and the Anglosphere world leads in that area.

As America begins to lead the world in the early part of the new century, there is a movement toward democratic governance. Bennett observed, “It is clear that prosperous states are rich because of the strength of their civil society, and that peaceful states are peaceful because of the strength of their civic statehood, not the other way around.”

Strong civil societies are the reason for the success of modern market economies and political states, not the other way around. What ensures whether democracy takes hold is the development of a strong civil society. As a civil society develops complexity, then democracy will emerge. As the move toward democracy occurs in the Middle East, the development of a civil society on the ground will ensure the success of a market economy and democracy. As Bennett observes, “Absent that civil society, importing the mechanisms of democracy- the forms and rituals- results only increasing one more set of spoils for families and groups to fight over at the expense of the rest of society.”

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