Partisan policies puts nation’s @risk
Partisan policies put nations @ risk.
While the democratic party in United States have managed to pass a health care bill with questionable practices and procedures; the divided governance of United states: questionable practices of lawmakers, expanding role of government, increased government spending, expanding tentacles of socialism, and most important a divided nation brings critical risks to United States of America.
United States has clearly failed in leading nations to a Global Age compatible policy design and implementation framework. This is probably the beginning of decline of United States leadership and its ability to lead in a Global Age.
With an eye on the future I look forward to a meaningful dialogue to address critical global risks. Let me know your thoughts.
Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor
Jayshree,
In a global age, leading nations are noted for their ability to conceive, plan and realise ‘major projects’. Major in terms of impacting not only a large number of people, not only impacting people on a maybe not a global but at least continent-wide and generation-spanning scale. These projects can be hardware / infrastructure (cross continent high speed railway networks), can be energy (smart-coupled coast-spanning windparks), can be income sustaining (health care, funded retirement financing), etc.
Nations that are politically (near) grid-locked due to partisan landscape or mental/financial corruption, have shown to be unable to maintain sufficient “deal-flow”. This means: Every now-and-then, by-hick-or-by-trick they deliver a major piece. But not frequent enough to deliver each year the numer of such “projects” that is required to maintain the type of society that is implicitly assumed to be one’s birth right, let alone the next level society that people may be hoping for.
In short, leading nations deliver sufficient quantity of good quality projects each year. Observing the US from the outside it seems to have lost the capability of a sufficient flow of “major projects”.
Many nations are facing the challenge of finding ways to do the “major projects” quick enough and yet ensure that enough people have contributed to ensure quality in all facets, to ensure that it is broadly carried to ensure survival over the generations and yet avoid the well-published and much-feared negative aspects of participation including sectoral, private, ‘nimby’, etc hold-ups.
There is still much research work and interlectual exploration to be done to help nations to remain or become ‘leading’ in the aspects that I focussed on.
In my own I am working with the people at EDHEC-Risk in Nice (France) on finding ways in which we can bring global ( or just major) infrastructure projects faster into development while we ensure the risks have been identified and valued along the many monetary and non-monetary ‘currencies’.
I hope this contributes to an element of the intended dialogue.
Regards, Mark van Huijstee – Project risks in major infrastructure.