James C. Bennett

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James Charles Bennett is an American businessman, with a background in technology companies and consultancy, and a writer on technology and international affairs.

During the 1980s he was involved in space-launch ventures, being a founder in 1985 of American Rocket Company (AMROC) whose technology found its way into SpaceShipOne. 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 was a columnist for United Press International 2000-3, with a weekly piece The Anglosphere Beat; he has popularised the idea of the Anglosphere as significant, as of 2004, 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 the Anglosphere Institute of Alexandria, Virginia.

He is also is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute, and a contributor to its publications.