Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.