Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

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.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

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

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

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