العولمة الاقتصادية – رؤى استشرافية في مطلع القرن الواحد والعشرين

Economic Globalization – Forward-looking Visions At the beginning of the twenty-first century, nothing preoccupies thinkers, politicians, and economists around the world more than talking or writing about the twenty-first century, and the question often arises: Why all this interest and preoccupation? Isn’t the twenty-first century another century like the one that preceded it and the one that will come after it in the annals of history?

Whoever browses through history finds that the world witnessed changes at the end of each century. Just as there is debate today about the thesis of the clash of civilizations by the American thinker (Samuel Huntington), the German thinker (Mahan) raised the same issue at the end of the nineteenth century.

Nevertheless, the twenty-first century for world has an intrinsic force that affects other dates and events, as its beginning is marked by international, regional, and local transformations:

At the international level:

* The fall of the socialist camp and the uniqueness of the capitalist countries, led by America, in managing economic and international relations.

* The growth of major economic blocs (such as the European Union, and the North American Free Trade Area)

* Increasing multinational corporate mergers in strategic branches (such as aviation, communications, and energy)

At the regional level:

* Integration efforts faltered in the Arab Maghreb and the Arab Levant and in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

* The failure of policies centered on managing the indebtedness crisis, and the shallowness of the results of liberalization and openness associated with it.

* The development of financial crises in the newly industrialized countries of East Asia with their tigers and cubs, the increase in economic and political imbalances associated with them, and the expansion of their negative repercussions.