The relevance of government to individuals is being diluted. There is, in other words, a power-shift taking place. The individual matters more. The shift is not cataclysmic, as from war. The effect is to create, still in quite a rudimentary way, a global society. The process will inevitably become more sophisticated. But it is in many ways at the moment an undirected phenomenon; out of the control of any organised leadership. So what are these parts? What are the building-blocks of this new world which globalisation is creating? If the influence of nations represented by governments is diminishing, what is growing in power?
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