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Saturday, December 14, 2002 |
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The development of the company-state?
The world's new look by Ignacio Ramonet, in Le Monde diplomatique.
The world has known city-states (Athens, Venice), region-states
(under feudalism) and nation-states (in the 19th and 20th centuries). Now,
with globalisation, we see the network state. And even the
individual-as-state, Bin Laden being the first and obvious example —
although for the time, as a hermit crab needs an empty shell in which to
live, Bin Laden still needs empty states (Somalia yesterday, Afghanistan
today) to occupy to fulfil his ambitions.
Globalisation creates the conditions for such things. Arguably, it will
lead tomorrow to the development of the company-state which, just like Bin
Laden, will take over countries that are empty, unstructured and prey to
endemic disorder, to use them for its own ends. In this respect Bin Laden
may be a terrifying precursor.
Where should you live? Compare two cities head-to-head.
In an effort better to protect the critical information infrastructure of
the nation, Feds To Draw 'Map' of Internet. By Tim McDonald.
1:37:19 PM 
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