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

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

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

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.

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.

In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.