We move from creators of the world system to underminers.
Only industrial societies could be active agents in the world system.
In that sense, they act as stabilizers in the world system.
For the future of the world system, the issue of how to regulate capital flow is far more important.
We need to engage China, and help accommodate its rising power with the world system, but the only way to do that is from a position of strength.
By itself, this proves nothing: the US supplies reserves to the world system, and it can run any deficit that the world is prepared to finance.
"When a determined criminal flouts international law under the principle of state sovereignty," he writes, "the world system, as currently constituted, appears unable or unwilling to stop him".
"This scandal doesn't have to do with Russia, it has to do with the world system of track and field athletics," Mutko told the state news agency Tass.
If the Arabs miss yet another decade of reform, because Iraq spins out of control while the world speeds ahead, they will find themselves outside the world system and dealing with plenty of their own Fallujas.
So surely our overriding interest is to keep that going -- by both stabilizing the world system militarily and democratizing it economically and politically, so that more people in more places benefit from this globalization.
"It's very possible that Donetsk will be the first country in the world to have a new kind of central bank, and it will be an evolution of the world system".
