has established part of why globalization would be advantageous to her economically, the process will also force certain beneficial changes to their economy. For example, the level of government spending in Germany is presently above 50 percent of the GNP; i.e., more than one of every two marks is spent by the public sector. As globalization forces people to show more personal responsibility, creates new systems of incentives, and is generally encourages innovation, those nations that oppose the globalization process will fall behind economically. It is wholly inevitable that this process of economic globalization will lead to Germanys addressing a host of important issues concerning the free will and power of an unfettered marketplace. In short, integrating into the EU, for Germany, could not only be a smooth and beneficial transition, but could also produce the necessary adjustments to Germanys economic policies, possibly boosting Germany even further into the forefront of world powers.Lastly, a nation state must also concern itself with the promotion of its citizens socially and culturally. This includes social modernization, an area in which Germany is in dire need. The relationship that many Germans have to modern technology is ambivalent. On the one hand, they reject large-scale technologies; on the other hand, they use high-tech products in every area of daily life. Why is it that Japan and the United States are market leaders in information and communication technology, when it was Konrad Zuse who built the first computer in Germany all of sixty years ago? Germany was once hailed as the pharmacy to the world, because Germany was where state-of-the-art medical andpharmaceutical research was to be found. Today, however, there is a brain drain ofresearchers and a migration of research facilities to other countries. Plainly said, there is a level of criticism in Germany that goes against things modern, against progress, and ag...
