Crystal Globe: The Haves and Have-Nots of the New World Order - Hardcover

Cetron, Marvin; Davies, Owen

9780312063252: Crystal Globe: The Haves and Have-Nots of the New World Order

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312063253 ISBN 13: 9780312063252

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1991

Examines how the political, social, and financial forces of the 1990s will define the "new world order", and predicts the world situation in the year 2000

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Not wholly convincing predictions of how the globe will coalesce into the ``New World Order,'' in which nations will ``cede sovereignty for the global good,'' resulting in interlocked trade for North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim, and likely starvation for those Third World nations with nothing left to sell. Cetron (Educational Renaissance, 1991; American Renaissance, 1989, coauthored with Davies) and Davies endorse, more or less, this New World Order: ``The world will be a more peaceful and prosperous place...because the rules by which it is governed have changed.'' To predict its course, they survey the present state and likely future of every region in the world, and then trace the probable route by which world government will replace national prerogatives. Although Cetron and Davies discuss social, political, and environmental concerns, their main interest is economics, and most countries are evaluated on how much hospitality they are likely to offer to the big-business agenda of building the global economy. Among the more startling predictions: Japan will lose its edge and within ten years not be among the top ten economies; Canada will lose Quebec to independence, then become part of the US; a unified Europe will enjoy the world's strongest economy; stock exchanges and multinational headquarters will shift from New York to Washington; and have-not nations will be doomed to starvation unless they offer natural resources or guarantee extremely cheap labor to foreign businesses. Backed by only cursory analysis and little documentation, Cetron and Davies's guesses--sometimes thrilling, sometimes chilling--are, in the end, only as good as anyone's. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

The authors are audacious and specific in this crystal-ball-gazing exercise concerning the world's future. Cetron, coauthor of Educational Renaissance , and Davies, a former Omni editor, predict that by the year 2000 Canada will dissolve, Quebec will be a nation and the other Canadian provinces will become U.S. states. In their forecast, a North American economic pact embracing Mexico will rescue the U.S. from its growing inability to compete globally. Among their other predictions: South Africa's white government will reach a workable political compromise with the black majority before 1994; China, turned capitalist, will gain much of the leadership lost by Japan; an international aid program will support Middle East reconstruction; life will remain stark and brief in much of the Third World. Cetron and Davies have produced a challenging survey that's worth reading even if some of its prognoses seem fanciful.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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