NIC - Mapping the Global Future: Executive Summary

NIC - Mapping the Global Future: Executive Summary:
"With these and other new global actors, how we mentally map the world in 2020 will change radically. The arriviste powers China, India, and perhaps others such as Brazil and Indonesia have the potential to render obsolete the old categories of East and West, North and South, aligned and nonaligned, developed and developing. Traditional geographic groupings will increasingly lose salience in international relations. A state-bound world and a world of mega-cities, linked by flows of telecommunications, trade and finance, will co-exist. Competition for allegiances will be more open, less fixed than in the past."