TY - CHAP AB - In the 21st century First Global Civilization, there are major forces of constructive global interdependence in all regions of the world and in all civilizational domains, including, political, economic, socio-cultural and religious, ecological and outer-spacial. At the same time, there are often equal and opposite forces for destructive global interdependence in the same areas. This led me to formulate Five Scenarios for the future of the First Global Civilization ranging from a Fragile Future with high degrees of vulnerability in all civilizational domains to a set of Doomsday or Final Futures. VL - 14 SN - 978-0-7623-1470-6, 978-1-84950-550-5/1064-4857 DO - 10.1016/S1064-4857(08)00015-6 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1064-4857(08)00015-6 AU - Perlmutter Howard V. ED - Jean J. Boddewyn PY - 2008 Y1 - 2008/01/01 TI - The race between the forces leading to a first or last global civilization T2 - International Business Scholarship: AIB Fellows on the First 50 Years and Beyond T3 - Research in Global Strategic Management PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 393 EP - 399 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -