🌐 The global nature of economics changed the pattern of international politics. The global political class contains new coordinating, policy making, and ideational bodies.
These groups form a cluster of mutually reinforcing interests, which can be defined as a transnational political class. There are six major components.
1️⃣ The first, the ‘transnational capitalist class’, is composed of the executives and major shareholders in transnational corporations. Other factions of the transnational political class are constituted from elites which are not ‘capitalist’ in an economic sense, though they are part of the apparatuses which constitute global political power.
2️⃣ The second faction is formed by the political elites of state and regional politicians and officials: state Presidents/Prime Ministers, members of the Commission of the European Union.
3️⃣ Thirdly, to coordinate global capitalism has been put in place the administrative/technical faction, made up of elites of ‘globalising executives’ – board-members and policy formulators of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and the Bank of International Settlements.
4️⃣ Fourthly, the ideological faction includes the influential members of national and international political think tanks and policy associations, academic bodies (universities and research institutes, particularly in economics), and media managers - editors of publishing houses and ‘quality’ newspapers. Such elites articulate, and respond to, an economic ideology of neoliberal globalisation. They define ‘what we believe’.
5️⃣ The fifth ‘consumerist’ faction is composed of merchants and media which promote and profit from consumerism. The minds of people have been captured not by religion but by the need to pursue the unremitting consumption of commodities and services. This faction is particularly important in spreading the culture-ideology of economic growth and consumerism: it includes companies and associations in the mass circulation print media, television, cinema, radio media companies, showbiz and commercialised sport.
6️⃣ Six, the military-industrial-security complex retains an enforcement role and, through organisations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), promotes and defends institutions and economic and political values.
Contemporary world politics are not, as suggested by Samuel Huntington, a ‘clash between civilisations’ but an adversarial conflict between a universal Western liberal civilisation and other civilisations, writes David Lane, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
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These groups form a cluster of mutually reinforcing interests, which can be defined as a transnational political class. There are six major components.
1️⃣ The first, the ‘transnational capitalist class’, is composed of the executives and major shareholders in transnational corporations. Other factions of the transnational political class are constituted from elites which are not ‘capitalist’ in an economic sense, though they are part of the apparatuses which constitute global political power.
2️⃣ The second faction is formed by the political elites of state and regional politicians and officials: state Presidents/Prime Ministers, members of the Commission of the European Union.
3️⃣ Thirdly, to coordinate global capitalism has been put in place the administrative/technical faction, made up of elites of ‘globalising executives’ – board-members and policy formulators of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and the Bank of International Settlements.
4️⃣ Fourthly, the ideological faction includes the influential members of national and international political think tanks and policy associations, academic bodies (universities and research institutes, particularly in economics), and media managers - editors of publishing houses and ‘quality’ newspapers. Such elites articulate, and respond to, an economic ideology of neoliberal globalisation. They define ‘what we believe’.
5️⃣ The fifth ‘consumerist’ faction is composed of merchants and media which promote and profit from consumerism. The minds of people have been captured not by religion but by the need to pursue the unremitting consumption of commodities and services. This faction is particularly important in spreading the culture-ideology of economic growth and consumerism: it includes companies and associations in the mass circulation print media, television, cinema, radio media companies, showbiz and commercialised sport.
6️⃣ Six, the military-industrial-security complex retains an enforcement role and, through organisations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), promotes and defends institutions and economic and political values.
Contemporary world politics are not, as suggested by Samuel Huntington, a ‘clash between civilisations’ but an adversarial conflict between a universal Western liberal civilisation and other civilisations, writes David Lane, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/from-national-power-elite-to-global-class/
#Norms_and_Values #globalisation #capitalism #elites #WorldOrder
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