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

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 world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

Both the control of territory and the political domination of one state over another have profound consequences for international economic relations. However... market power or economic power has itself become a principal means by which states seek to organize and manipulate the international division of labor to their own advantage.