And the leader turned out inevitably to be Uncle Sam. Last November the WTO had started to emerge as a successor to the declining G-7. There will be a WTO with both China and Taiwan as members. But it won't have anywhere near the power the Clinton administration wanted to assign it. For years political and cultural observer Walter Truett Anderson has argued for globalism but with governance, not government.
Government assumes a structure through which governing occurs.
Governance governs and seems to do it best without much of a structure. He has written how corporate structures are flattening out. Even as corporate mergers produce financial behemoths the corporate workplaces are getting smaller and flatter. Just from a humanistic perspective we should be glad that the global oil system does operate like a finely tuned watch. Even in the remotest part of the world you'll find people riding cars and planes whose ponderomotive force is oil.