The Futures of Power ( 1 )

Some may recall, or have read about, those heady days when history allegedly ended, as the Berlin Wall collapsed. When the wall came down it seemed to may observers as if, with the end of communism – at least in Europe – the only threat to existing democratic political power was vanquished. Liberal, plural democracy, the open society and open organizations seemed to stretch as a vista into a future full of promise offering peace in our time, with all its assumed dividends, and the triumph neither of the will nor the state but of decent, ordinary democracy. Surely the chance to build a better world of organizations was imminent?