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A

Aerospatiale-Matra, 162, 167
Afghanistan conflict, xiii
Africa: colonization and, xix;
 devolution in, 175–76; First
 Gateway (civil society) in, 53–54;
 slavery and, 84, 96; tribalism in,
 170. See also specific African nations
African-American cultural nation:
 defined, 200, 215; assimilation and,
 84, 101, 220, 238–39; as cultural vs.
 racial group, 84, 100–101; history of,
 200–208; trust and, 96, 239, 263
African Americans: alternatives to
 racial identity, 84; as Anglosphere
 population, 84, 234–35, 238–39;
 consequence of protected class
 status, 100, 263; cultural narratives
 of, 239, 261–63; desegregation of the
 U.S. military, 220–21; imagined
 independent nation of, 207, 238;
 low- vs. high-trust cultural
 patterns, 101, 239, 261–63; pan-
 African identity, 238–39; political
 alliances of, 206–8; slavery and, 84,
 96
Albania, 139
Amish, 153
 amphibious society, 28–29, 120, 124–26,
 285
anarchocapitalism, 138–40
Anglosphere: defined, 79–82; African
 American participation in, 84,
 234–35, 238–39; “Anglo” term, 71,
 91, 230; assimilation vs.
 multiculturalism in, 72, 100, 113,
 234–35; civil society in, 3–4, 10, 186,
 210–11, 241, 284, 288–89; civil war
 in, 93, 191–92, 195–96, 231–32;
 cultural and historical foundation,
 34–35, 89, 89–93, 288–89; cultural
 nations and, 82–83, 92, 199;
 exceptionalism, 72–74; feudalism
 and, 5, 93–94; high-trust societies
 in, 67–69; intermarriage within, 77,
 234, 241; language and, 39, 42, 75,
 79–80, 230, 257–58, 267; legal
 traditions of, 3, 72, 181–85; mass
 media and, 75–78; reconvergence
 of, 74–78, 233–34; regionalism in,
 82–88; religious roots of, 36, 93, 100,
 106; slavery and, 5, 95–97, 105; U.S.-
 British “special relationship”, 233,
 235, 236–37; utopianism and, 65–66,
 97–99
Anglosphere Network
 Commonwealth: alternative terms
 for, 91; British Empire as precursor
 to, 6; Common Law as prerequisite,
 257; conditions leading to, 260–62,
 284; defense alliance, 159–62,
 248–49; imperial unification vs.,
 231–34; intra-Anglosphere trade,
 110, 242–45; NAFTA as precursor
 to, 106, 137–38; as post–Cold War
 strategy, 275–76; race not basis for,
 70, 91, 230; Virtual Network
 Commonwealth Assembly control
 structure, 167. See also Network
 Commonwealth; Network
 Commonwealth examples
apocalyptic theories, 9–10
Arabic Network Commonwealth, 177
Argentina, 114, 116, 175–76
artificial intelligence, 27, 28
arts, 59, 103, 197
ASEAN (Association of Southeast
 Asian Nations), 38, 112
assimilation: across cultural nations,
 213, 221; African-American cultural
 nation and, 84, 101, 220, 238,
 221–22; cyber-immigration, 120;
 ethnic neighborhoods, 119;
 openness and, 118–19;
 sojournership vs., 147–48, 248; state
 intervention in, 100, 113, 206, 208,
 221–22; template societies and,
 116–17; transformation vs., 239–40;
 trust and, 70–71, 116–17, 118,
 147–48, 211, 240. See also
 multiculturalism
Associated Commonwealths, 179–80
Atlantic Defense Industry Community
 (ADIC), 159–62
Atlantic Union, 111
Australia: aboriginal peoples in,
 238–39, 279–80; as Anglosphere
 nation, 71, 80, 256–57, 279–80;
 British colonization and, 233, 237;
 constitutional reform in, 185; as a
 cultural nation, 92–93, 223, 280;
 defense, 249–50; market economy
 in, 38; New Zealand and, 74, 280;
 protectionist backlash movement,
 242; Sinosphere connection of, 69,
 123–24, 280; trust and openness in,
 115–16
Austria, 71, 170
authoritarian society, 31–32

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Baechler, Jean, 225
Barbados, 99
biotechnology, 17, 20–21, 25
Black, Conrad, 251
Blair, Tony, 59, 99, 241, 251–52, 272–73
Bolivia, 176
borderlessness, 2, 118, 288
Borsook, Paulina, 138, 140
Bosnia, 142, 169
bounded/unbounded distinction:
 economic theory and, 13–14, 135;
 indicators of unboundedness,
 20–22; political disputes and, 182;
 space exploration and, 13–18; Y2K
 crisis and, 18–20; zero-sum oriented
 societies, 116
Brazil: devolutionary forces in, 176;
 Lusosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 173; openness in,
 116; Portugal as template for,
 116–18; slavery and, 95, 106, 261;
 U.S. Confederate exiles in, 204
Breadbasket cultural nation, 85–86
Brin, David, 138, 140
British Aerospace, 158, 162
British Empire. See Great Britain
Brown, Gordon, 110–11, 256
Buchanan, Patrick, 24

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C-SPAN, 167
Cabot, John, 104–6
Calvinism, 34, 69
Canada: American Revolution and,
 229; as Anglosphere nation, 80, 91,
 106, 194; constitutional reform in,
 184; cultural nations in, 211–13;
 devolution in, 146, 266–67; export
 products of, 68; Francosphere
 Network Commonwealth, 174; as a
 nation-state, 91–92; national culture
 movement (le Projet Trudeau), 212,
 265–69; Newfoundland statehood,
 74; political parties, 195; post-
 Imperial identity, 242; protectionist
 backlash movement, 246;
 regionalism in, 84–85; secession
 movement, 169, 257, 259–61, 288;
 Sinosphere connection of, 123–24;
 socialism in, 98; technological
 development in, 39; trust and
 openness in, 116, 118. See also
 Quebec cultural nation
capitalism: “crony capitalism”, 33, 37,
 68, 138–39, 189; Industrial
 Revolution and, 47–48, 53–54;
 Internet content as commodity,
 48–49; labor and capital
 components of value, 26–27; market
 economy vs. traditional capitalism,
 26–27, 47–51, 53–54, 138; natural
 monopolies in, 136–37; personal
 computer as means of production,
 49–50. See also labor; market
 economy; regulation
Caribbean nations, 81, 95, 103, 207,
 219, 231, 238
Catholicism: anti-slavery movement,
 106; assimilation and, 220; in
 Ireland, 95, 142, 199–201, 230, 234;
 liberation theology, 176; relation to
 Anglosphere, 81; trust
 characteristics and, 71; utopian
 characteristics and, 97–98
CENTO, 157
CERN, 155
Chadhauri, Nirad, 7
Chechnya, 172
Chile, 176
China: Chinese Empire as model for
 Britain, 6; devolution in, 176–77;
 legal traditions in, 74; as low-trust
 society, 115; Sinosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 123–24; Western
 classical culture in, 102
Chrétien, Jean, 261
Christianity, 70–71, 93, 100
Church of England, 97
Churchill, Winston, 93, 127
civic states: characteristics of, 46, 288;
 civic social democracies, 56–58;
 civil society and, 33, 56, 58; criteria
 for survival, 54–56; devolution of
 federal/regional authority in, 141,
 233; economic states vs., 39, 85–86;
 noncontiguous (shared) states, 142;
 prosperity narratives in, 58; role in
 Network Commonwealths, 223–24,
 237; types of Singularity Era civic
 states, 57. See also economic states;
 nation-states
civil society: defined, 31;
 anarchocapitalism and, 138; as
 Anglosphere characteristic, 2, 10,
 65–66, 183, 210, 244, 285, 288;
 characteristics of, 38; civic states
 and, 31, 56, 58; democracy and, 29,
 32–33; entrepreneurial culture in,
 33–37; feudalism and, 34, 71, 83;
 First Gateway as, 52–53, 117–18;
 individualism and, 31–32, 73;
 kinship (family) and, 31–32, 37;
 openness in, 10, 36–37, 69–70, 118,
 131; persistence of, 29–30; religion
 and, 34, 71; self-healing capacity,
 195–96; social planning and, 208;
 spatial composition and, 194–96;
 technological development and,
 28–30, 33; trust and, 69–70, 72,
 113–17, 131
classical-liberal civic state, 56, 58–59.
 See also liberalism
Clinton, Bill, 59
cloning, 16, 19
Coase, Ronald, 52, 55
Colley, Linda, 184
colonialism, 3–4, 72, 79, 175, 231–34,
 276. See also imperialism
Columbus, Christopher, 103, 104, 105
COMECON, 162
Common Law: as Anglosphere
 characteristic, 2–3, 74, 79, 95,
 181–84; commercial cooperation
 and, 16, 145; as prerequisite for
 Anglosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 252–53, 278–79;
 transnational jurisdiction and,
 251–52
computers: Apache server, 50; Linux
 computer system, 15, 36, 49–51, 53,
 119–20; Microsoft, 48, 50; Moore’s
 Law, 27; open-source movement,
 15, 27, 49–51, 53, 119–20; personal
 computers, 15, 48–49, 128; “Turing
 Test”, 27; Y2K crisis, 16–18. See also

 Information Revolution
Confucianism, 9, 30, 173, 176
Conquest, Robert, 105, 253
Continental law tradition, 182
Cook, Robin, 256
Cortéz, Hernán, 105
Coughlan, Anthony, 282
cryptoanarchy, 46, 54
Cuba, 84
cultural nations: assimilation of,
 100–101, 206, 221–22; as
 fundamental Anglosphere
 structure, 82–88, 124, 197–207,
 222–23; Grand Union of, 92, 206,
 224–25, 261–62; hybridity of, 221;
 immigration streams of, 209;
 nation-states vs., 92, 122, 206–8;
 non-North American cultural
 nations, 222–23; optimal size of,
 224; political boundaries and,
 85–86; preeminence over economic
 concerns, 288; preeminence over
 media homogenization, 222; region states
 vs., 223–25; regions vs.,
 84–89, 216–23; trust and, 205–6. See
 also African-American cultural
 nation; Breadbasket cultural nation;
 Dixie cultural nation; Foundry
 cultural nation; Greater New
 England cultural nation;
 MexAmerica cultural nation;
 Midland cultural nation; nation states;
 New Ulster cultural nation;
 Quebec cultural nation
cypherpunkism, 138
Cyprus, 143
Czech Republic, 104, 127, 169–70, 266

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DARPA (Defense Advanced Research
 Projects Agency), 140
DASA, 161, 165
Debs, Eugene V., 99
defense: Anglosphere Defense Alliance
 proposal, 162–65, 248–49, 285–86;
 Atlantic Defense Industry
 Community (ADIC), 162–65; B-2
 bomber, 25–26; bounded/
 unbounded distinction and, 12–14;
 constitutional theory and, 186–89;
 DARPA (Defense Advanced
 Research Projects Agency), 140;
 draft (selective service) system, 186;
 “Grid” information network, 130,
 158, 286; information technology
 and, 159–60; militia system, 187–89;
 in nationalist-conservative civic
 states, 58; NORAD (North
 American Air Defense Command),
 37; U.S.-British defense alliance,
 158–65, 233, 235, 236–37, 285–87;
 West Point (U.S. Military
 Academy), 190. See also war
DeGaulle, Charles, 126, 181
DeHavilland Corp., 161
Delamaide, Darrell, 84–85, 223–24
democracy: as abstraction of civil
 society, 30, 33–34; economic
 development and, 160, 263–64;
 social democracy, 53, 57–59, 87–88;
 as voluntary association, 55
Denmark, 58
determinism, 7
devolution: in Anglosphere nations,
 153–54, 183–84; in the British
 Empire, 231–32; cryptoanarchy and,
 46, 54; cultural diversity and,
 173–74; economic states vs. civic
 states and, 109, 131, 140–41, 234;
 limits of, 43, 109, 141; Network
 Commonwealth as outgrowth of,
 109, 172; privatization, 53, 121, 144;
 prosperity and, 248–49; regional
 competitiveness and, 141, 173,
 265–67; sovereignty a consequence
 of, 45, 175, 266–67; tribalism vs.,
 170, 279
Dewey, John, 203
Dixie cultural nation, 86, 198–207,
 208–9, 210–11, 288
Douglass, Frederick, 72, 84, 262
Drake, Sir Francis, 103–4
Drexler, K. Eric, 29
DuBois, W. E. B., 100, 262

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East Asia: Anglosphere areas in, 82;
 crony capitalism, 31, 34, 67, 138–39,
 131; cultural identity in, 280;
 devolution in, 173–74; Japan as
 cultural anomaly, 177; neo-
 Confucianism, 9, 30; as U.S. axis of
 cooperation, 197. See also specific
 East Asian nations
Eastern Europe, 30, 63, 72, 138–39,
 156
economic states: defined, 45–46;
 anarchocapitalism (pure market
 society) and, 138–40; “billiard ball”
 concept, 113; civic states vs., 39,
 84–85; communications industries
 and, 125–29; “creative destruction”
 (Schumpeter), 53; “cryptoanarchy”
 in, 46, 55; currency control and, 45;
 defense industries in, 159–60;
 devolution of, 111, 131, 169, 234;
 social democracy as stabilizer, 53;
 state-mediated relationships,
 121–22; status of citizenry in, 191;
 tribalism emergent from, 169, 192.
 See also civic states; devolution;
 nation-states
economy: corporate vs. network
 model, 52; economic determinism,
 6; entrepreneurial vs. hierarchical
 economy, 23–25; “follower” 
 economies, 36–37; market economy
 vs. traditional capitalism, 26–27,
 47–51, 54–55, 138; morality as basis
 for, 282; open-source movement, 28;
 reputation economy, 49–51;
 visibility of transactions, 45. See also 
 capitalism; labor; market economy;
 Marxism
Egypt, 237–38
Eisenhower, Dwight, 158, 207
environment, 2, 137–38, 104, 214, 226
Eritrea, 175
Ethiopia, 175
ethnicity: assimilation and, 72, 101,
 114, 242–43; bridge cities, 178–79;
 civic states and, 56; civil society
 and, 31–32; diasporas, 56, 173, 178;
 diversity fundamental to
 Anglosphere, 236–37;
 Hispanosphere, 112, 122, 174–75;
 mimetic vs. group identity, 89–90;
 network paradigm and, 241;
 overstates both similarities and
 differences, 90; racial identity,
 100–101; scientific concept of race,
 147; terrorism and, 170; “white”
 ethnicity, 101–102. See also
 multiculturalism
European Atomic Energy Agency, 152
European Coal and Steel Community,
 152, 163
European Common Market, 146
European Convention on Human
 Rights, 251
European Economic Area (EEA),
 112–13
European Space Agency, 131, 152
European Union: British role in,
 162–63, 238–39, 244–45, 176–77,
 258–59, 269–73; as economic vs.
 civic union, 47, 109–10, 131;
 European Parliament control
 structure, 167, 244, 261;
 Euroskepticism movement, 244–45,
 261, 274–77, 283; “harmonization”
 strategy, 65, 148, 162, 272, 282;
 “lowest-common-denominator”
 economic inertia, 197, 276–77, 282;
 as model for Network
 Commonwealth, 64–65, 109–12, 148;
 NAFTA trade agreement with,
 112–13, 148; as self-assembly
 protocol, 61; Singularity Revolution
 and, 38; sojournership in, 149–53,
 248; successes and failures of, 63,
 121–22, 131; trust atmosphere in,
 172–73
evolution, 69, 109–11, 147
evolutionary conservatism, 110, 284

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family: adult adoptions, 118; civil
 society and, 31–32, 38; as economic
 mechanism, 121; feudalism and, 93,
 95; individualism and, 73;
 modernist concept of, 203;
 openness and, 118–19; trust and,
 114–16, 121, 243; as voluntary
 association, 31; wealth and, 53
federalism, 62, 140–41, 175, 211,
 225–26, 232–35
Ferguson, Adam, 61
Fiji, 56
Finland, 37, 103, 120–21
First Gateway (civil society), 49–50,
 117–18
Fischer, David Hackett, 73, 38, 199,
 214, 216
Foundry cultural nation, 84, 141–43,
 216–17
Fox, Vicente, 176
France: civil society in, 34, 269;
 collaborative technology, 148, 152;
 defense capability of, 158, 287;
 degree of trust in, 115, 116;
 entrepreneurial barriers in, 38;
 Francosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 172; government
 spending, 37; modernist art, 103; as
 a nation-state, 92; national radio
 network, 126–27; NATO
 membership, 159; regime composition
 revolutions in, 196;
 Rhenish Network Commonwealth,
 172–73; role in European unity,
 238–40, 277; socialist influences in,
 99, 281–82
Francosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 172
Franklin, Benjamin, 232
Free Trade Area proposal, 256
Freedland, Jonathan, 184, 199
Freehling, William W., 95
Freud, Sigmund, 203
Friedman, Milton, 53
Friedman, Thomas, 103
Fukuyama, Francis, 114–16, 222

G   top^
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 203
Garreau, Joel, 84–85, 199, 214, 226–27
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs
 and Trade), 253
GEC-Marconi, 161, 165
General Common Law, 251–52
George III, King of England, 231–33
Germany: as civic state, 46, 56;
 collaborative technology, 148, 152;
 defense industries in, 161;
 entrepreneurship in, 36–38; Hanse
 organizations, 132–35, 167; as
 industrial rival to Britain, 233;
 relation with Czechoslovakia,
 169–70; religious influences in, 71;
 Rhenish Network Commonwealth,
 172–73; role in European Union,
 232, 277, 282; socialism in, 99; trust
 and openness in, 116, 118
Global Positioning System, 15
globalization: borderlessness, 2, 118,
 288; fundamental civilizational
 groupings (Huntington), 130–31;
 inevitable limits of, 42; “lowest common-
 denominator” effect,
 35–36, 132, 166, 197, 246, 276–77;
 market intervention and, 135–39;
 network civilizations, 123; New
 World Order, 42; “One World”
 prediction, 117, 132; regulation of
 information, 121–22; regulation of
 technology, 29–30, 49, 53, 127–29,
 89–90; transnational currencies, 45;
 world government vs. cooperative
 civil society, 36–37, 39–40. See also
 treaties
Goldwater, Barry, 53, 204
Gramm, Phil, 112, 253
Grand Union, 92, 211, 226–27, 262–63
Gray, John, 138, 140
Great Britain: as Anglosphere nation,
 80–81, 110, 244–45, 277–78; British
 Empire, 4–5, 6, 129, 231–35, 237–40,
 277; British exceptionalism, 73–75;
 classical-liberal heritage of, 60;
 democracy in, 32, 108, 184–85, 233;
 Euroskepticism movement, 34, 69,
 244–45, 261, 274–78, 283;
 governmental structures of, 234,
 269; as high-trust society, 116;
 individualism in, 73; legal
 traditions of, 185–86; market vs.
 industrial economy, 37, 103, 160–61,
 270; NAFTA membership
 proposed, 162–63, 253–56, 270–71;
 National Health Service, 23, 45–46,
 257; North Atlantic Free Trade
 Agreement, 90; origins of
 aristocracy, 93–94; religious
 influences in, 71, 95–96; role in
 European Union, 162–63, 238–40,
 244–45, 253–56, 258–61, 269–75;
 Scottish nationalism, 196, 233,
 260–62, 269–70; slavery vs. serfdom
 in, 95, 103–4; state ownership in, 99;
 U.S. cultural fusion with, 76; U.S.
 defense alliance with, 158–66, 233,
 236, 237–38, 286–88; U.S. statehood
 proposal, 257; Whig historical
 narrative, 3–4, 72–73, 93, 184
Greater New England cultural nation,
 199–211, 213–14
Greece, 63–64, 126, 229
Gress, David, 69, 103
“Grid” military information network,
 130, 158, 286
Gulf War, 144, 167

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Hague, William, 270
Hanseatic Leagues, 132–35, 167
Hanson, Pauline, 246
harmonization, 65, 148, 162, 270, 282
Hart, Gary, 193
Haushofer, Karl, 6
Hayek, Friedrich A. von, 13, 51, 52,
 135, 139
health insurance, 23, 45–46, 257
Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 73–74,
 91–92, 146
Hispanosphere, 112, 122, 174–75
history: American historical narrative,
 204–5; Anglosphere historic
 foundation, 89; ideological
 conspiracy narrative, 98;
 macrohistorical analysis, 69;
 Marxist narrative of, 3–4; Whig
 historical narrative, 3–4, 72–73, 184,
 133–34
Hitler, Adolf, 30, 126
Hobbes, Thomas, 39–40
Holland, 129
Howe, Neil, 265
Hulsman, John, 256
Human Genome Project, 20
Hungary, 169–70
Huntington, Samuel, 130–31, 122,
 175–76

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immigration. See assimilation;
 multiculturalism; nation-states
imperialism, 4–6, 129, 231–34, 327–40,
 263
India, 5–6, 82, 173–74, 233, 240
 individualism, 31–32, 73
Indonesia, 105, 173–74
Industrial Revolution: agricultural
 production and, 25; British Empire
 and, 232; capitalism and, 46–47,
 54–55; civil society in, 2–3;
 conversion of agricultural labor
 skills, 28; individualism and, 73;
 Information Revolution compared
 to, 11, 25, 129–30; modernist
 Machine Paradigm, 63–64; slavery
 and, 95–96; standing armies and,
 192
Information Revolution: amphibious
 society, 121, 123–25; broadcasting
 vs. narrowcasting, 74–78;
 cryptoanarchy, 46, 55; cultural
 reconvergence and, 74–79, 233–34;
 decentralizing effects of, 39, 121–22,
 128, 153, 243; defense industry and,
 158–66; design-to-manufacture
 process, 25–26; encryption
 programs, 45, 125; history of,
 124–25; Industrial Revolution
 compared to, 11, 25, 129–30;
 information warfare, 130;
 intellectual property and, 143;
 national security and, 156–58;
 nationalism and, 125–26; open source
 movement, 15, 28; political
 affiliation and, 221; topology of
 information space, 129–32, 286. See
 also computers; Internet
Intelsat, 127
Internet: basis for information
 economy, 26, 44; broadcasting vs.
 narrowcasting, 74, 78;
 communications content as
 commodity, 48–49, 124–25; control
 of, 30; creation of, 140, 160; cultural
 network underpinning of, 118, 122;
 cultural reconvergence and, 74;
 effect on Network Commonwealth,
 40; impact on civilization, 11;
 Internet currencies, 45; model for
 network civilization, 65, 122–23;
 One-World-Through-Internet
 movement, 40, 117, 132;
 pictographic vs. alphabetic
 languages and, 173; as self assembly
 protocol, 61–62, 65; trust
 and, 120–21, 125; World Wide Web,
 54, 61, 62, 125, 155. See also
 Information Revolution
Iran, 173–74
Iraq, 32
Ireland: as Anglosphere nation, 78,
 80–81, 91–92, 164, 283–84; as civic
 state, 56, 58; European Union
 arrangement with, 257, 281–82;
 feudalism and, 4, 83; low- vs. high trust
 in, 71, 94; Northern Ireland,
 142, 170, 233; reunification
 movement, 234; secession
 movement, 74, 162; technological
 development in, 36–37
Islam, 74, 82, 130
Islands cultural classification, 220
Israel, 56, 60, 82, 142, 178. See also
 Judaism
Italy, 38, 45, 71, 116, 119–20

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Japan: alleged global dominance of,
 9–10; as Anglosphere nation, 82,
 177–78; entrepreneurship in, 37, 38;
 as high-trust society, 71, 116, 118,
 264; kinship in, 118; as a nation-state,
 92; openness in, 118;
 regionalism in, 84; technological
 cooperation with, 44; Western
 classical culture in, 103
Jefferson, Thomas, 113, 184
Jesuits, 98, 105
Johnson, Lyndon, 13, 90, 102, 280
Johnson, Paul, 257
Joy, Bill, 29–30
Judaism, 82, 100, 178. See also Israel
juste retour policy, 152, 153, 161

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Karabakh, 169
Kennedy, John, 13, 204
Keynes John Maynard, 135, 203
King, Martin Luther, 72, 263
kinship. See family
Kipling, Rudyard, 277
Kissinger, Henry, 157
Kosovo, 40, 144, 277
Kuwait, 32

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labor: corporation-employment model,
 45; labor theory of value, 3–4,
 26–27, 94; labor unions, 53, 201;
 manufacturing and service
 industry, 26; sojournership,
 149–52, 165, 248; use of immigrant
 labor, 38. See also capitalism;
 Marxism
Landes, David, 70
language: as Anglosphere
 characteristic, 4, 39, 44, 75, 230,
 256–57, 268; degrees of
 Anglosphere participation and,
 81–82; English-as-a-Universal-
 Language school of thought, 40,
 117; evolutionary model of, 147;
 imperialism and, 231; information
 economy and, 36, 68, 112, 120–21,
 129, 148, 155; minority languages,
 242, 256–57; nationalism and, 2,
 126; network civilizations and,
 88–89, 123, 131; pictographic vs.
 alphabetic languages, 173;
 reconvergence and, 74–79, 233–34;
 template societies and, 114;
 translation and, 102–3, 118, 173–74;
 trust and, 120–21, 150
Latin America: as Anglosphere
 affiliate, 82; devolutionary forces in,
 174–75; Hispanosphere, 112, 122–23,
 120–21; template societies and, 117;
 trust in, 31, 36, 116
Laughland, John, 288
Lawrence, D. H., 99
Lee, Robert E., 192
liberalism, 113, 203, 219–20. See also
 classical-liberal civic state
Liberia, 44, 83–84
libertarianism, 60, 138–40, 153
Linnean paradigm. See network
 paradigm
Linux computer system, 15, 37, 49–50,
 120–21
Lipset, Seymour Martin, 223
literature, 102
Lusosphere Network Commonwealth,
 172

M   top^
Macfarlane, Alan, 73–74
MacNamara, Robert, 13
Major, John, 270
Malaysia, 282, 231
Manhattan Archipelago cultural
 classification, 205–10, 220–22. See

 also New York City
Mao Tse-Tung, 30
market economy: anarchocapitalism
 (pure market society), 138–40;
 capitalism vs., 27–28, 47–51, 54–55,
 138; cryptoanarchy and, 46, 55;
 cultural basis for, 72–73; democracy
 and, 33; Network Marketplace, 54,
 122–23; prosperity and, 247–48;
 state intervention in, 135–38; Third
 Gateway (fluid entrepreneurism),
 54, 117–18. See also capitalism
Marxism: Anglosphere utopianism
 and, 98–100; centralization in,
 47–48; collective identity in, 31;
 concept of revolution and, 196;
 economic determinism of, 6;
 historical theory of, 69; labor theory
 of value, 3–4, 27–28, 57; “liberation
 theology” and, 174; open-source
 movement and, 49–51; social
 democracy, 53; Whig demise and,
 184. See also labor; socialism
mass media, 75–76, 78–79, 125–29, 113,
 223
McCreevy, Charles, 282–83
MCI, 127
McNeill, William, 69
Mead, Margaret, 203
Medicare, 23, 45–46
Mediterranean Network
 Commonwealth, 172–73
Methodism, 34, 95, 105
MexAmerica cultural nation, 84, 214,
 218, 220
Mexico, 174–76
Microsoft, 48, 50, 120–21, 123
Midland cultural nation, 101, 195,
 199–211, 216
military. See defense
militia system, 185–87
Minford, Patrick, 253
Mises, Ludwig von, 135
modernism, 1–2, 63–64, 91, 103, 146
molecular nanotechnology (MNT), 15,
 20–22, 29, 29–30
monarchies, 59
Moore’s Law, 28
moral hazards, 140
multiculturalism: assimilation and, 72,
 101; deconstruction of national
 identity, 266–68; equality and,
 113–14; immigration transaction
 costs, 101–2; multiculturalist
 ideology, 40, 220–22, 264;
 noncontiguous (shared) states,
 141–43; trust and, 116, 243, 264. See
 also assimilation; ethnicity
music, 102
Mussolini, Benito, 126
Myers, Kevin, 282

N   top^
NAFTA (North American Free Trade
 Agreement): British membership in,
 162–63, 255–56, 272–73; European
 Union trade agreement with,
 112–13, 148; geographical vs.
 cultural basis for, 68; immigration
 patterns and, 38; Network
 Commonwealth as outgrowth of,
 131, 165–66, 257–58; protectionist
 reaction to, 246; as self-assembly
 protocol, 63–64; Western culture
 and, 103
nanotechnology, 15, 20–22, 29,
 29–30
NASA, 14
nation-states: civic vs. economic
 qualities of, 2; civilization vs.
 nation, 130–31; conception of, 146;
 continental vs. Anglosphere
 conception of, 73–74; cultural
 nations vs., 211–13; ethnicity as
 foundation for, 39, 91; future of,
 288; immigration, 38, 121, 150;
 national culture and, 59, 197–99,
 212–13, 265–69, 280; national
 narratives, 56, 59, 203, 212, 221;
 nationalism, 125–26, 212, 265–68;
 sovereignty services and, 44–45,
 132; U.N. recognition and, 179. See

 also civic states; cultural nations;
 economic state
National Advisory Council for
 Aeronautics, 14
National Endowment for the Arts, 59
National Health Service (Great
 Britain), 23, 45–46, 257
National Space Society, 284–85
nationalist-conservative civic states,
 57, 59
Native Americans, 83–85, 105, 242–43,
 259–60, 266, 269
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
 Organization): Anglo-American
 high command of World War II
 and, 90; anti-Soviet origins of,
 238–40, 276–77; “Atlantic
 Assembly” control structure, 167;
 geographical vs. cultural basis for,
 112; importance to small nation
 members, 57; lowest-common denominator
 membership criteria,
 160, 246; member nation loyalty to,
 156–57; Network Commonwealth
 relation to, 131, 167, 277; as self-assembly
 protocol, 63–64; “slow
 convoy” dilemma, 165–66;
 specialization in, 286–87;
 technological cooperation in, 144,
 158, 250; U.S. interest in, 238–40;
 Western Civilization and, 103
natural monopolies, 135–36
neo-Confucianism, 9, 30
Netherlands Antilles, 44
Netherlands, The, 37, 59, 71, 118
Netscape, 54
network civilizations, 123, 237
Network Commonwealth: defined, 6,
 39, 63–64, 110; as amphibious
 society, 121, 123–25, 286; civic state
 as fundamental social unit of,
 224–27, 237; collaborative
 technology in, 152–53; conditions
 leading to, 40–42, 259–62, 284–86;
 constitutional vs. utopian structure,
 40; cyber-immigration, 121;
 economic/cultural vs. geographical
 basis for, 39–42, 47, 68, 109, 289;
 European Union as model for,
 64–65, 109–13, 148; government in,
 54, 131; Greek city-state alliance vs.,
 238; information (vs. goods) as
 basis for exchange, 62–65, 68;
 institutional control, 167–68;
 institutional precursors of, 147–58;
 intellectual property in, 148; limits
 on consensus in, 62; mechanisms of
 transnational cooperation, 46–47;
 network civilizations linked by, 123,
 237; nonassimilable minorities in,
 142–43, 242–43; relation to Network
 Marketplace, 54; relations among
 coherent states, 61; role of
 government in, 54, 130, 95; self-assembly
 protocols and, 61–64,
 132–34; socio-political organization
 of, 42–44; sojournership, 78, 149–52,
 248; tolerance for multiple linkages
 in, 88; trade alliances vs., 112–13,
 148–49, 246; transnational
 institutions vs., 247; transnational
 legal jurisdiction, 251–52; United
 Nations and, 179–80; as united
 state vs. separate nations, 61–62,
 230
Network Commonwealth examples:
 Arabic Network Commonwealth,
 176–77; Francosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 172;
 Hispanosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 112, 122–23,
 120–21; Lusosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 172;
 Mediterranean Network
 Commonwealth, 172–73; Rhenish
 Network Commonwealth, 172–73;
 Scandinavian-Baltic Network
 Commonwealth, 172–73;
 Sinosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 122–23, 173–74;
 Turkic Network Commonwealth,
 177. See also Anglosphere Network
 Commonwealth
Network Marketplace, 54, 122–23
network paradigm: civil society and,
 30; civilization paradigm vs., 131;
 ethnic identity in, 241; as evolved
 social entity, 113; hierarchical
 structures vs., 23–25, 90, 93, 149,
 152, 230, 283–84; network spheres,
 122–23, 230–31; as social model, 51,
 90; sojournership, 78, 149–52, 248.
 See also society
New Africa cultural nation. See
 African-American cultural nation
New Guinea, 75, 105
New Ulster cultural nation: defined,
 199, 216; in American Revolution,
 200; moral principles in, 213–14;
 political alliances of, 208–10;
 populism and, 85; slavery and,
 201; in West Virginia, 195
New World Order. See globalization
New York City, 6, 141, 199, 225–26,
 230. See also Manhattan Archipelago
 cultural classification
New Zealand: aboriginal peoples in,
 242–43, 281; American Revolution
 and, 233; as Anglosphere nation, 73,
 78, 80–81, 257–58, 280–81;
 constitutional reform in, 185; as a
 cultural nation, 91–92, 224, 281;
 post-imperial identity, 240; as
 template society, 116; U.S.
 statehood proposal, 257
Nixon, Richard, 14
NORAD (North American Air Defense
 Command), 38
North American cultural nations:
 Dixie cultural nation, 85, 199–211,
 213–14, 215–16, 288; Foundry
 cultural nation, 84, 201–4, 216–18,
 222; Greater New England cultural
 nation, 199–211, 213–14;
 MexAmerica cultural nation, 50,
 214, 220, 222; Midland cultural
 nation, 101, 195, 199–211, 216.
 See also African-American
 cultural nation; New Ulster
 cultural nation; Quebec cultural
 nation
North American Free Trade
 Agreement. See NAFTA
North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement,
 90
North, Lord, 231–32
Northern Ireland, 142, 170–71
Northrop Grumman, 25–26


O   top^
O’Driscoll, Gerald, 256
Oglesby, Carl, 204
Ohmae, Kenichi, 56, 83–84, 140–41,
 174, 224–25
open-source movement, 15, 28, 49–51,
 54, 120–21
openness: access to trust and, 118–19;
 assimilation and, 118–19; civil
 society and, 10, 37–38, 68–69, 118,
 131; essential value of Anglosphere,
 10, 68–69, 118, 131
Organization of African Unity, 175
Orion Corp., 127
Orwell, George, 5

P   top^
Pakistan, 82
Panama, 44
PanAmSat Corp., 128
Paraguay, 106
Philippines, 82, 277
Phillips, Kevin, 26, 73, 92
Poland, 169–70
Portugal: Lusosphere Network
 Commonwealth, 172; NATO
 membership, 63–64, 159;
 Portuguese empire, 129; slavery
 and, 4, 95, 104–5; as template
 society, 116
postmodernism, 103
Pound, Ezra, 99
privacy, 45, 125
privatization, 53, 122, 144
prosperity, 59, 247–48
Protestantism: in American colonies,
 199–201; as Anglosphere
 characteristic, 81; evangelical
 Protestantism, 173–74; in Ireland,
 142, 196; Protestant Reformation,
 94, 100; Protestant Work Ethic
 theory, 70–71; U.S. political
 affiliation and, 217
Puerto Rico, 80–81, 83–84, 179
punctuated equilibrium, 110–11

Q   top^
Quakers, 34, 83, 95, 105, 153
Quebec cultural nation: Bloc
Quebecois political party, 196;
 Canadian nationalism and, 265–68;
 cultural narratives of, 234; language
 and, 75, 80–81; political boundaries
 and, 85, 89, 211–12, 268–69;
 secession movement in, 170–71,
 183, 259–62, 288

R   top^

race. See ethnicity
Reagan, Ronald, 53, 217
recreation, 28
Red Hat Corp., 49, 51, 53
Rees-Mogg, William, 277–78
region-states, 224–27
regionalism, 82–89, 140–41, 224
regulation: bounded/unbounded
 distinction and, 181; costs and
 justification for, 46, 56, 135–38; of
 global technology, 29–30, 49, 53,
 127–29, 138–39; market
 intervention, 135–39; Second
 Gateway (deregulation), 53, 117–18
religion: Christian roots of the
 Anglosphere, 15, 100; churches as
 state-mediated institutions, 121;
 civil society and, 69–70;
 Confucianism, 9, 30, 173–75, 177;
 cultural nations and, 199; as
 foundation for network civilization,
 123; Islam, 130; Judaism, 48, 100,
 123; Latin American Protestantism,
 174; Old Order Amish, 152;
 Quakers, 24, 64, 75, 84, 181. See also
 Catholicism; Protestantism
retirement, 14–15, 32–33
Rhenish Network Commonwealth,
 117–18
Rhodes, Cecil, 230, 243
Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation
 of, 233
Rolls-Royce, 166
Roman law tradition, 74, 182, 278–80
Roosevelt, Franklin, 126, 135, 202–4
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 39–40
Russia: post-Soviet society, 33, 42, 53,
 139, 277; Trotskyism, 99. See also
 Soviet Union
Rwanda, 142

S   top^
Santa Fe Institute, 28
satellite photography, 15
Scandinavia, 37
Scandinavian-Baltic Network
 Commonwealth, 117–18
schools, 60
Schumpeter, Joseph, 53
Scotland: as cultural nation, 82, 199; as
 political nation, 199; role in
 European Union, 155, 257, 269–70;
 Scottish nationalist movement, 196;
 secession movement, 233, 259–60,
 269–70, 288; Treaty of Union and,
 181–82, 194, 231
SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty
 Organization), 157
Second Gateway (deregulation), 53,
 117–18
self-assembly protocols: examples of,
 61–62; Hanseatic Leagues and,
 132–34, 167; Network
 Commonwealth principles, 62–63;
 voluntary pan-network
 organizations, 284–85
Seminole Indians, 83–84
Servan-Schreiver, Jean-Jacques,
 9–10
Shaw, George Bernard, 74
Shute, Nevil, 234
Sierra Leone, 75
Singapore, 5, 40, 56, 173, 233
Singularity: defined, 3, 11, 12;
 bounded components of, 19–20;
 essential values of, 246; as
 precursor to globalization, 2; as
 unbounded, 13
Singularity Revolution: ambitions and
 expectations of, 11; civic states after,
 57, 199–200; collaborative
 technology and, 155–56; human vs.
 technological issues, 17–18;
 indicators of likely revolution,
 20–22; market (exchange driven)
 model of, 52; physical disability
 and, 28–29; prohibition as a control
 mechanism, 250–51; time frame of,
 30–31, 38, 265; voluntary cohesion
 vs. coercion in, 55, 59–60
Sinosphere Network Commonwealth,
122–23, 173–74 
slavery: abolition movement, 4, 72,
 105, 200–201; African Americans
 and, 83–84, 96; classical architecture
 and, 194; Dixie cultural nation and,
 216; economic consequences of, 95,
 263; English serfdom vs., 95, 103–4;
 imperialism theory and, 3–4;
 Industrial Revolution and, 11–12;
 John Brown uprising, 192, 201;
 racial identity and, 100; religious
 roots of, 101; “slaveism” ideology,
 94–96, 104
Slovakia, 103, 126, 169–70, 268
Smith, Adam, 61, 232
Snow, C. P., 21
social democracy, 53, 57–59, 87–88
social democratic civic state, 57, 58–59
Social Security, 23, 45–46
socialism. See Marxism
society: amphibious society, 28–29,
 121, 123–24, 275–76; authoritarian
 society, 31–32; conditions for
 technological development, 30,
 37–38; cryptoanarchy, 46, 55;
 economic states vs. civic states, 39;
 hierarchical structure, 90;
 individual vs. group identity,
 31–32; kinship networks and,
 114–15, 121; memetic vs. genetic
 identity, 89–90; openness in, 10,
 37–38, 68–69, 118, 131; trust and,
 114–17. See also civil society;
 network paradigm
sociobiology, 6
sojournership: as alternative to
 migrant labor, 222; component of
 European Union, 149; component
 of Network Commonwealth, 78,
 149–56, 165, 248, 258, 283;
 relocation transaction costs, 56, 61
Solana, Javier, 157
Soto, Hernando de, 174
South Africa: Afrikaner population, 75;
 as Anglosphere nation, 80–82,
 223–24, 242, 277–80; anti-apartheid
 movement, 237; federalism in, 233;
 pan-African identity in, 241;
 postimperial identity, 240; secession
 movement in, 196
South Korea, 33, 82
Southeast Asia, 82
sovereignty services, 44–45, 132
Soviet Union: COMECON system, 162;
 NATO and, 238, 275–77; Soviet
 Republic break up, 42, 169, 277. See
 also Russia
Sowell, William, 69
space exploration, 12–13
Spain: degree of trust in, 116;
 development of slavery and, 4,
 94–95, 100, 105–6; English Catholic
 conspiracy and, 98; European
 super-regions and, 84; European
 Union effect on, 63–64; as NATO
 member, 156, 277; Spanish empire,
 94, 129
Spengler, Oswald, 3–4, 101, 105–6
Sri Lanka, 56
Stalin, Joseph, 30
Strauss, William, 265
Streit, Clarance, 110
subcivilizations, 123
super-regions, 84, 156
Sweden, 56, 58
Switzerland, 57, 155, 269, 192


T   top^
Taiwan, 33, 82, 173
taxation: civic social democracies and,
 59; economic unions and, 281–84;
 income tax, 187; tax havens, 44;
 visibility of transactions and, 45
technoliberalism, 138–39
technological development: conditions
 for technological development, 30;
 global regulation of, 29–30, 49, 53,
 127–29, 138–39; government
 sponsorship of, 37, 139–40
Thatcher, Margaret, 30, 37, 53, 138–39,
 277
Third Gateway (fluid
 entrepreneurism), 54, 117–18
Third Way, 59–60, 257, 273–74
Thomas, Hugh, 104
Thompson, James, 275–77
Thoreau, Henry David, 192
Thurmond, Strom, 204
Tibet, 174
Torvalds, Linus, 37, 120–21
totalitarianism, 32, 97–100, 289
treaties, 17, 46–47. See also
 globalization
tribalism, 169, 278
Trudeau, Pierre, 212, 265–69, 280
Truman, Harry, 204
trust: agriculture and, 116; assimilation
 and, 71–72, 116–17, 118, 150–51, 211,
 243; civil society and, 69–70, 72,
 114–17, 131; cultural nations and,
 210–11; exploitation of low-trust
 status, 263–64; high-trust societies,
 38, 68–71; Internet and, 120–21, 125;
 kinship and, 114–16, 121, 243;
 language and, 117–18, 150; low-trust
 to high-trust transition, 62,
 242, 243, 262–64; multiculturalism
 and, 116, 243, 264; Network
 Commonwealth and, 39; openness
 and, 118–19; role of government in,
 114–15, 121–22, 278; slaveist
 ideology and, 96; undermined by
 corruption, 35, 115
Turkey, 156, 159
Turkic Network Commonwealth,
 177

U   top^
United Kingdom. See Great Britain
United Nations: control structure of,
 167; globalization and, 40; legal
 jurisdiction of, 251–52; nations vs.
 commonwealths in, 179–80;
 networked co-rule as alternative,
 90; space law and, 17
United States: American
 exceptionalism, 73–75; American
 Studies university programs, 92; as
 Anglosphere nation, 80–81; British
 cultural fusion with, 76; British
 defense alliance with, 158–66, 233,
 235, 238–39, 286–88; Constitution as
 self-assembly protocol, 61, 188–90;
 defense profile, 158–66;
 government of, 143–45; government
 subculture in, 221–22; as high-trust
 society, 116; influence of English
 civil society, 72–73; influence of
 English feudalism, 34; legal
 traditions of, 181–85, 188–90;
 national culture, 59, 102, 203–4, 221,
 232; openness in, 118; political
 parties, 202–5; protectionist
 backlash movement, 246; Roosevelt
 coalition, 202–4; as Singularity
 Revolution site, 2; Sinosphere
 connection of, 122–23; slavery in,
 95–96, 104; socialism in, 99;
 sojournership and, 150–51; as
 “template” society, 114–16; Whig
 political theory and, 186, 188–89,
 192–93, 231–32. See also African
 Americans; North American
 cultural nations
UNIX computer system. See Linux
 computer system
Uruguay, 116
utopianism: conspiracy narratives and,
 96–97; Counter-Reformation
 Catholicism, 98; determinist logic
 of, 6; intellectual malaise and,
 98–111; network paradigm vs., 40,
 65–66; Singularity Revolutions
 and, 11–12, 29–31; socialism and,
 98–99


V   top^
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 174
Védrine, Hubert, 80–81
Véliz, Claudio, 96, 174
Verne, Jules, 125
Vickers, 161
Vietnam War, 13, 280, 287
Vinge, Vernor, 3, 11
Virtual Network Commonwealth
 Assembly, 167

W   top^
Wales, 80, 233
war: American Civil War, 92, 95–96, 195,
 200–201; American Revolution, 92,
 194–95, 200, 231–32; Anglosphere
 civil wars, 92, 193–94; English Civil
 War, 3, 92, 99, 188, 190, 193–94;
 Falklands war, 237; French and
 Indian War, 191; Glorious
 Revolution, 92; Gulf War, 144, 167;
 information warfare, 130, 157; Irish
 Civil War, 94, 195; Irish War of
 Independence, 92, 94; Jacobite
 Rebellion, 92, 194; Kosovo war, 40,
 144, 277; spatial definition vs. regime
 composition, 193–94; United Irish
 uprising of 1798, 194; Vietnam War,
 13, 280, 287; World War I, 5, 76, 126,
 164; World War II, 12–14, 76, 90, 203,
 236. See also defense
Washington, Booker T., 263
Washington, George, 191
Weber, Max, 69–71
Webster, Noah, 232
welfare, 60, 185–86, 282
Western Civilization, 101–2
Whig historical narrative, 3–5, 72–73, 93, 184, 192–93
Wilson, Harold, 90
World Court, 251–52
World Trade Organization, 40, 148, 253
World War II, 13–14
World Wide Web. See Internet
Wulfstan, Archbishop, 93

X  top^

X, Malcolm, 263

Y
Y2K crisis, 18–20
Yugoslav Federal Republic, 42

Z
Zambia, 233
Zimbabwe, 81–82, 233