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The Sydney Morning Herald
December 5, 2003

Dreams Of World Peace And A Global Culture Are Just That - Dreams. (Excerpt)

Owen Harries

"The anthropologist Janine Wedel maintains that these cultures are producing a new set of international actors and organisations she calls them "transactors" whose outstanding characteristic is their flexible, adaptable, chameleon-like character. They adopt multiple roles and identities, and are largely unaccountable. They often work outside formal channels. Their nationality is becoming increasingly irrelevant; their loyalties and interests are changeable.

Wedel says of the Harvard Institute people: "To suit the transactors' purpose, the same individual could represent the United States in one meeting and Russia in the next - and perhaps himself at a third regardless of national origin." They are, she sums up, "members of an exclusive and highly mobile multinational club, whose rules and regulations have yet to be written".

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