Globalization versus Tribalization: The Dilemma at the End of the 20th Century

Globalization versus Tribalization: The Dilemma at the End of the 20th Century

- Speaker: Guy Sorman, former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, France

- Date : January 14, 1998.

"In the past, human societies were organized along the lines of the herd, the clan, the tribe, the principality, the kingdom or the empire. It is generally acknowledged that the nation-state is the natural, if not ultimate, result of these successive forms of organization. But to consider the nation-state as the end of evolution is to give history a definitive orientation and a posterior meaning. It is more a case of political rather than scientific theology...”