James (Jim) Charles Bennett (born 1948) is an American businessman, with a background in technology companies and consultancy, and a writer on technology and international affairs from a

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point of view. During the 1980s he was involved in space-launch ventures, being a founder of Starstruck Inc. and of

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(AMROC) in 1985; technology of these companies found its way into

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. In the 1990s he was a technology consultant. He is President and Chairman of Internet Transactions Transnational, Inc., a 1997 Internet start-up, and Vice Chairman of Openworld, Inc., a nonprofit group promoting sustainable self-help initiatives. , he is a proponent of fundamental reform of the

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space program, both in its

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and

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manifes tations. His publications and quotes like "democracy, immigration, multiculturalism… pick any two", popularising the idea of Anglospheric

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in a similar vein as

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, have been called misleading by some libertarian writers. He was a columnist for

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2000-3, with a weekly piece ''The Anglosphere Beat''; he has propagated the idea of the

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as significant, , in world affairs and alignments. His book-length study ''The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century'' was published in 2004. He is co-founder and current President of th
Anglosphere Institute
of

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. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the

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, and a contributor to its publications. In addition, Mr. Bennett serves as an Expert at

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. Jim Bennett is one of the directors of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM), affiliated with the

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* Bennett, James C. "Dreaming Europe in a Wide-Awake World." The National Interest, no. 78 (2004): 119-29. Accessed April 21, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42897514. 1948 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American columnists {{US-business-bio-1940s-stub 20th-century American businesspeople