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On or about 14th January 2004, under the guidance and coordination of OPUS, Listening Posts, aimed at providing a snapshot of the societal dynamics of each country at the dawn of 2004, were held in 13 different countries around the world (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, South Africa, Spain, Sweden - three reports, and USA). These were all reported in a similar format (see ‘Britain and the world at the dawn of 2003’, Organisational & Social Dynamics, 3(1): 165-169), researched and analysed by the authors, to produce this Global Report.
The authors self-defined their task as follows - to research and analyse the National Reports with a view to:
identifying common themes arising within the 13 Reports;
to explore relationships between themes and to reduce these down to major or dominant themes;
to collate supporting information from the Reports for analysis of these themes; and
to formulate hypotheses arising therefrom.
For the sake of brevity, this Report will only document the major interrelated themes identified, followed by an analysis and hypotheses regarding each.
There is considerable information in the National Reports to support the notion that globalisation is having a major impact on all participating countries. The following is a selection of the way this is experienced in the various countries.