Primary things that a nation state should do are:

What kind of a century will this new century be? What will be the characteristics of the Global World?

It is possible to make virtual journeys via infinite information highways to the most remote places of the world; accordingly, a massive change has taken place in all the fields from economics to politics, from culture to science.

infinite = sonsuz... information highway = "bilgi otoyolu"... remote /ri-MOUT/ = çok uzak, kuş uçmaz kervan geçmez, ücra...

virtual = işte Türkçe'de "sanal" sözcüğü ile karşılanan sözcük!... Asıl anlamı, "gerçeğe yakın, hemen hemen gerçek"... Nitekim, "virtually" türevi "almost" ile eşanlamlıdır ve çok sık kullanılan bu sözcük Türkçe'ye "neredeyse, hemen hemen, %99.9 oranında" şeklinde çevrilir... Uzun sözün kısası, "virtual" ve "sanal" kavramları arasında farklılık var. Nitekim, sözlüklerimizde "virtual" karşılığında taban tabana zıt iki tanım veriliyor: "gerçek kuvvetinde olan"; "gerçek olmayan"... Yeni elektronik dünyamıza kimin yanılgılı tanı koyduğu takdiri sizlerin... [İnsanımız gerçekleri sanallardan gerçekten ayırt edebiliyor olsaydı, herşeyin bu derece sanal olduğu bir ülkede yaşıyor olmazdık.]

The whole world has turned into a big market thanks to the Internet. The dimensions that the global market will take in the 21st century will be extremely striking.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Head of the U.S. Patent Department told the then U.S. President: "everything that can be invented has already been invented. Close down the Patents department." 4.5 million inventions have been made since then.

Robert Millikan, the Nobel Prize Winner in Physics in 1923, cut it short by saying: "Man has no possibility of making use of the power of the atom." We all know what has happened since then. Taking into consideration these examples, one could easily conjecture that the enormous developments in science and technology will continue.

The invention of new vaccines in the field of medicine and transplantations, the profound improvements in genetics, the increase in the average life span, new inventions concerning the human brain will continue and humanity will come across many good news.

Democracy will continue to spread and to strengthen on a global level.

New codes of conduct and values will appear in every area from economics to politics, from culture to education.

The state will be rebuilt according to the needs of the century, thereby gaining a structure that allows it to enact at a level closest to its citizens.

The power and the activity of the civil society will also increase giving a new dimensions to participation. There will be a transition from representative to participatory democracy.

Electronic working environment will turn the world into a single market that operates for 24 hours, the concepts of time and place will lose their meaning, and firms of all sizes will be able to do business on a global level.

What matters will no longer be the origin of the firms, but rather where they produce thereby providing employment and welfare.

The development of the global market will make the international finance system an integrated whole; the transparency in public administration and the struggle against malpractice will attain a cross-border characteristic and great importance.

transparency in public administration = kamu yönetiminde saydamlık... malpractice = kötüye kullanma, süistimal... cross-border characteristic = sınırlar ötesi nitelik...

The wealth of the nations will be judged by the qualities of their human resources. Therefore, the democratization of the processes of gaining access to information and of using information will become very important.

Health care and education will become public services which should be provided to the whole of humanity.

Communication and transportation will become cheaper thanks to the developments in technology; circulation of goods, services and capital on a global level will become faster.

The international economic and political relations will mainly consist of the additions of regional groupings to each other. The countries left outside these groupings will be marginalized.

The most significant result of all these developments will be that no country or state will have the standards of its own in politics, economy or human rights. No state will be able to claim "I do what I like, I solve my problems in my own way. And that interests no one." We are at a point where national security is attained by collective security arrangement.

timely precautions = zamanında önlemler... is of great importance = is very important... ("of + (sıfat) + ad" yapısı -- of (great) importance = important; of (little) value = valuable; of necessity = necessary; of wonderful beauty = wonderfully beautiful...) to ease = hafifletmek, rahatlatmak, kolaylaştırmak...

concrete = 1. somut; 2. beton... [Tersi: abstract = soyut...] phenomenon = olgu (pl. phenomena)... gaining new dimensions every day = hergün yeni boyutlar kazanıyor...

Being against such a dynamic concrete phenomenon does not stop the process from developing. The process will go on. Besides the new opportunities and better living conditions provided by the globalization, those who lose their jobs because of this process, those who fear the weakening of local traditions and national conscience, those who see the environment under threat and the possibility of social and political turmoil in some countries constitute the painful points about globalization.

to overcome = yenmek, üstesinden gelmek... to be well aware of = çok iyi farkında olmak... globalizing world = küreselleşmekte olan dünya... to adapt to = --------e uyarlanmak... in this new order = bu yeni düzende... equipped with a good education = iyi bir eğitim ile donanmış...

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