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Originally Posted by Waves
what do you guys foresee for the international economy in the next, say 50 years?
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Just as the Bush presidency has been, I think the next 50 years will be defined by a few majour issues. The mass integration of cultures and the rise of the Islamic population (including the backlash to that tight-knit culture expanding around the world), and more so, the interplay between the three defining powers of USA/North America, Europe and China/the Far East.
These three super power regional blocks are already vying for the allegiance or dominance of the undeveloped world. The interplay of this will create a world forum dominated by competing super strengths, fighting in a big dog world, while the little guys get the shaft. BUT at the same time, the fight between the three of them will mean new levels of equilibrium more equally, if still just tri-polarly spread across the globe.
There are already efforts to keep this division of power from being like the cold war, a military divide, and contain it to the financial sector. In this light, the War on Terror can be seen as a effort of 'established' money and power, to compete against challenges to the status quo, worldwide. Instead of one nation vs. another, it is a global top, a norm, vs the bottom and change.