Let me guess, you don't have the time to write a thesis about it.
No but in a nutshell, here are the concepts (which I personally think are overblown):
* Since the end of the Cold War, the "high walls" have come down and borders mean less
* The electronic herd (e.g. the global investment community) will "punish" countries that look out too much for their own national interests (at the expense of investor convenience / ROI)
* The "Fast World" (a globally integrated, high tech juiced) economic system is erasing economic "cultural" behaviors and pushing things toward global standards
* Eventually we will overcome all anti Western trends with all this
Certainly, I do not deny the existence of all but the last element. But to believe that such elements are either permanent, or that they trump geopolitics, is insanely naive. That's where I am coming from. I am an old school conservative mindful of the nation state.