Has America Peaked or is the Best to Come?

Posted By Ric Vatner on February 4, 2010

Ariel Bookshop was certainly full last night when around 70 people came to hear and participate in this debate.

I think I had the easier side to argue; I put the negative case i.e. that America has Peaked and I think more people agreed with that proposition than the alternative although Stephen put together a very strong case and delivered it well.

I found a lot of good material during my research and if you are interested in world affairs including who’s hot and whose not and where the world is heading politically I think you will enjoy reading it. I will regularly post links to some of the stuff you can find on the Internet or provide references and a brief summary of books that I read.

One paper I highly recommend you should read can be downloaded free from the Lowy Institute. It is an excellent paper entitled “The End of the Vasco Da Gama Era” In it the author, Dr Coral Bell AO, sketches the probable future landscape of the society of states as it emerges from the twilight of US paramountcy. Bell argues that the world is in transition to a multipolar balance of six great powers: the United States, the European Union, China, India, Russia and Japan. You can get it here:

http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=723

By the way according to Bell, the title reflects the thinking of Indian Scholars who have long regarded the voyages of the great navigator Vasco Da Gama along with those of Ferdinand Magellan and Christopher Columbus as the beginning of 500 years of ascendancy of the West over Asia.

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Ric Vatner
Hi, I've been in Sales and Marketing all my business life but I have also published various magazines from time to time including an audio magazine called BAC to Business (pronounced Back to Business). I've spoken at conferences around the world usually on Marketing but also on Business, Philosophy, Education, Insurance, Media and quite a few other topics, in fact speaking is the major reason I have visited so many countries. Some of my major achievements have been; I sold over $100,000,000 of paid Whole of Life Assurance in two years for Prudential while simultaneously making the Top 5 with four or five other insurance companies in the late 1980's and early Nineties, I won the inaugeral Holbien Scholarship for the Pacific Region with my paper on the future of Newspapers in 2000, I launched the only web site I know of that started its own newspaper with content from the web site and sold it at a profit within six months during the Tech Crash in 2002. And more recently I launched ESTV an online TV Style magazine which has a neat twist, it is the Internet version of a local paper - TV style. In the near future I will launch Best Deals Australia - a unique Shopping Mall - Why unique? - Ah you will have to see it to understand. In the mean time please check out www.estv.com.au or follow us at www.twitter.com/estv. BFN

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