Davos man's death wish
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1404411,00.html
While the west bickers over minor differences, Asia waits quietly in
the wings
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday February 3, 2005
The Guardian
Davos man is mainly white, middle-aged and European or Anglo-Saxon. Of
course, some of the participants at this year's five-day meeting of the
World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain resort were Indian, Chinese,
African or/and women. But they continue to be a minority. The dominant
culture of Davos remains that of white western man.
Samuel Huntington, who is credited with inventing the term "Davos man",
argued last year that members of this global elite "have little need
for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that
thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from
the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global
operations". Piquantly enough, his article was published in a journal
called The National Interest.
Timothy Garton Ash
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Samuel P. Huntington
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