The Next Global Stage Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World

Chapter 4. Playmakers

Finding Your Bearings on the Global Stage

Our landscape has changed radically. The world is beset by a world war between the shibboleths of the old economic thinking, with its allied baggage, and the global economy. We have already examined some of these obsolete notions and fading nebulae of the old economic order. Now we will examine the way in which we look at the world and how we divide it into discrete geographical and political entities is being undermined by the global economy. Although our thinking is dominated by the atlases of the past, with their maps of continents containing a collection of different-colored political units, the global economy is strange and alien. When we start to jettison the straightjackets ...