The need for a "deglobalization" of "globalization"

Mahdi Elmandjra

pp. 29-39

in: Chris Pierson, Simon Tormey (eds), Politics at the edge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

the settlement of key international issues requires action by the single superpower with some combination of other major states. The single superpower can, however, veto action on key issues…. The United States, of course, is the sole state with preeminence in every domain of power — economic, military, diplomatic, ideological, technological and cultural — with the reach and capabilities to promote its interests in virtually every part of the world.