ABSTRACT
Designers, producers, and dealers of armaments are more active than ever; Western politicians involved in the preparation of new forms of international cooperation lack the willingness to give up old structures. These politicians, as well as their voters and commentators, are skeptical about any innovation; they lack imagination and instead concentrate on the defence of established structures, especially the nation-state and non-competitive industries. Since business has been much more successful in overcoming narrow national points of view than have governments, most politicians and the general public, it may be useful to look at the world from a management scientific viewpoint. There are technological and natural forces at work in world which set limits to the social effectiveness of decentralized activities. Centralization even beyond the national level may be necessary and the optimal social order may require centralization at the world level.
