by Rscott Stewart

Created on: May 20, 2008

Science fiction writers of the early part of the Twentieth Century tended to foresee any union of man as a result of benevolent tyranny, such as in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." Toward the middle of the century and beyond, writers began to see world unity as a natural and beneficial occurrence. Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and myriad others wrote of wondrous societies upon whom mankind depended for development and continued existence.

Unlike Huxley, who in "Brave New World Revisited" maintained that a stable society is only maintained through a totalitarian regime having absolute power, the mid Century writers viewed a stable society as an inevitable result of evolution.

Some even considered the necessary economic forces that would be behind global unity. Most writers, however, considered that forces common to most men would be behind globalization. Now, as mankind readies for a new century and a new millennium, global unity, a "New World Order" as coined by its proponents and now used by detractors as a sign of tyranny, what are the forces behind "globalization?"

Politically, among the first notable Globalists were men such as Jan Smuts and Woodrow Wilson, who were influential in bringing about the League of Nations as an instrument of peace after World War One.

As one of united South Africa's first Prime Ministers, Smuts showed allegiance both to transnational political interests and to transnational business. He heavily influenced Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1913-1921) who lobbies for the League of Nations. Yet Wilson's idea of a global entity was "a general association of nationsformed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."

As late as 1919, the idea of a forum for all nations was to be one of "a general association."

However, the League of Nations treaty which resulted from Wilson's efforts was never ratified by the U.S. Senate, and in 1946, after World War Two, the ineffective and futile League of Nations disbanded, leaving as its legacy merely the practical how's of organizing an international body.

Two phenomenon occurred after World War Two. First was the "Cold War" struggle between Soviet-style socialism and so-called "democratic" socialism, and second was an unprecedented explosion of technology. The social democrats, primarily controlling the Western powers led by what became the "Group of Seven," (seven

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