The Non-State World

The non-state world is one of the scenarios provided to the CIA which describes trends in China, India, Africa and the Mid-East.  Regional and local economic and cultural zones co-exist within nation states that have less relevance than they have had in the past.  It would also seem that the development of multinational corporations,  which have distributed their functions and markets across multiple nation states, are becoming more loosely connected to the states in which they are headquartered.