The thesis of the article is that the United States cannot and will not remain satisfied with the current status quo, but would rather attempt to improve the system it is part of in the future. If one looks at the example that globalization gives, this is certainly true. In many ways, the United States has led the technological and economic progress for the past couple of decades and globalization, as a phenomenon, also means that its efforts in this direction are likely to spread around the world in a much quicker manner. With improved communication and higher interconnectivity, change is brought about at a quicker pace.

The U.S. efforts during the Bush Administration went far beyond the economic and technological transformation that the U.S. supported...

Bush also promoted a widespread campaign of establishing democracies abroad, which means an effort to export the political model from the United States to other countries. Globalization also means bringing systems together and increased information on how other people live. The fact that some of the people from totalitarian countries could now share information on life in other countries meant that it was easier to find the right climate for establishing democracies in these countries.
Both articles are keen to emphasize some of the different implications and characteristics of globalization, which include cultural diversity, open communications and an attempt by the United States, the only superpower left, to implement democratic regimes in the world.