The phrase "a global confrontation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a conflict or clash that involves multiple countries or has worldwide implications.
Example: "The tensions between the two superpowers have escalated into a global confrontation that could affect international relations for years to come."
Alternatives: "an international conflict" or "a worldwide clash".
On Nov. 1, 1956, he declared Hungarian neutrality and appealed to the United Nations for support, but Western powers were reluctant to risk a global confrontation.
Despite his strong stance in what he conceived to be a global confrontation with communism, Acheson was the target of attack by foreign-policy critics within both political parties.
For some years, though he himself was in much more physical danger than at any previous time, it appeared than al-Qaida, by triggering a global confrontation with the west, might achieve its aims.
They believed in a "mad prophecy" that there would be a global confrontation between a coalition of "80 armies against an army of Muslims coming from all over the world" and were "a bit out of their mind".
Liz Sly and Anton Troianovski report: "U.S.-led military strikes in [Syria] … remained a distinct possibility, but there were indications that efforts to head off a global confrontation are gathering pace.
Within a few years, the BPP had expanded its operations into a global confrontation with what Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver dubbed "the international pig power structure".Malloy traces the shifting intersections between the black freedom struggle in the United States, Third World anticolonialism, and the Cold War.
And for that reason, it has been surprisingly sensitive to outside criticism.In his annual state address this week, President Vladimir Putin inveighed against those who clung to an era of global confrontation, and against enemies who would weaken his country.
If President Romney acceded to Netanyahu's outrageous demand for clear red lines on Iran, this global confrontation would be a tiny foretaste of the conflagration to come.
His courage in those meetings played a crucial role in avoiding a global nuclear confrontation at the height of the Cold War.
In this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world.
They have run cold and long, as in its 40-year global confrontation with the Soviet Union.
