Enterprise and the State: Individualist versus Communal Interest

Precisely because there is no global state the role of the state is an issue in our current age of global emergence. As mentioned in Chapter 2, there has always been an intense debate on the role the state can play in encouraging enterprise and development, especially where it involves international business and sources of wealth beyond the bounds of the state itself. An issue for decision-makers here has always been1 whether the state can or cannot be effective in supporting the international global competitiveness of its domestic enterprise.