McWorld talks about the four imperatives that compose it (Barber, 1992, page 2). These imperatives are market, resources, information technology and ecology. The market imperative speaks to the global need for a free market, the downside is that it requires a common language and a common currency (Barber, 1992, page 3). A failed demonstration of this might be the Euro, however they do not share a common language. If the world wanted to have a single currency, it would have to agree on the language to use, and while most of the First World uses English, this is not the same for peripheral states. The resource imperative is as Barber puts it: “Democrats once dreamed of societies in which political autonomy rested firmly on economic independence” (Barber, 1992, page 4). The problem with this imperative is that every nation requires something that another nation has, and some nations have almost nothing that they need (Barber, 1992, page 5). This can be seen most prominently in Africa, where states fail because they are unable to govern a state without the assistance of major states, such as the United States or Russia. The following imperative is information technology; this imperative is the idea that technology becomes universally used. The disadvantage of