<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/58ceac7b-15b4-4e7b-8718-6b315f6b97d5/E353CDC3-5959-4637-810E-28FD54057577/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/02/journal-the-stress-test-.html" href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/02/journal-the-stress-test-.html" style="font-size: 11px;">globalguerrillas.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/02/journal-the-stress-test-.html">One useful way to look at D2 (the current global depression) is to view it as a stress test for nation-states.  In other words:  can nation-states adapt successfully to the twin pressures of the new global environment? </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/02/journal-the-stress-test-.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A dominant, turbulent, and uncontrollable global super-network, that is pressuring/weakening/buffeting nation-states from above.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Super-empowered individuals/groups rising up from below that are ready to pounce on or exploit any demonstration of nation-state weakness. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/02/journal-the-stress-test-.html">the response to the stress test has been a revival of early 20th Century methods/theories of activist government</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/02/journal-the-stress-test-.html">decentralization that both improves resilience and accelerates (parallelizes) innovation offers a greater chance of success. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E353CDC3-5959-4637-810E-28FD54057577/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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