I must share my recent on-line experience!!!  

After reading this L. van Middelaar text on anti-globalization I was thinking on his discussion that  war in Iraq is not "all about petrol".  

Even though didn't write any critical question on this, I didn't like the way this topic was approached in the text. Too shallow, too narrow and lacking broader view

and few minutes ago I noticed that an on-line conference with politics scholar dr. T.D. Clark from U.S. (Creighton University, Nebraska, Omaha; he teaches international relations and works much on post soviet democracies) is being held in Lithuanian news portal www.delfi.lt. I asked what he thinks on this and here's the answer:
  

giedre studente: 15:35 Do you agree with the statement that in the XXI century economic power has replaced military might? Is war in Iraq all about petrol?

T.D.Clark: 15:41 This was the thesis behind the notion of globalization. It was Samuel Huntington who argued for an alternative thesis that cultures mattered and would be the source of conflict in the modern world. That conflict would not be mitigated by forces of global integration resulting from greater economic trade and interdependence. Rather, trade would lead to the spread of technology necessary for cultures to fight each other. I am not sure that we know yet which of these two visions (or perhaps a third?) is the best description of the world in which we live.

fast and simple way of getting wise answers, isn't it :)