VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — What is the nature of the modern world order? Answers to this question are incalculably many. However, the one provided by Salvatore Babones, a native New Yorker and currently a professor at the University of Sydney, has recently struck me as probably the most compelling.
Challenging the conventional wisdom, Babones argues that America’s hegemony is far from getting weaker — quite the reverse, it is growing stronger, approaching “a true world-empire.” The contemporary world consists of nominally sovereign states. In reality, though, most “sovereign” nations are little more than self-governing provinces within a larger imperial system governed …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
