(August 7, 2014 at 12:20 am)bberryhill0 Wrote:(August 6, 2014 at 11:59 pm)Chuck Wrote: competition between different geopolitical interests of numerous major powers would become the norm and the chief driving force.The trans-national corporations. Nations are no longer major powers. Not even the U.S. Think GE and the oil companies. Monsanto.
Nations remain the major store of power. It only seems the multinationals call the shots because the most powerful state by a large margin in the world has aligned its own interests with those of its own multinationals. But as soon as there is no longer a single state that is clearly more powerful than all others, the ultimate ability of the state to command its own multinationals will be called upon to deal with other peer states and their retinue of multinationals. Soon multinationals will be seen as not really so multinational, and each primarily serve just one. Then it would be clear in a multipolar world, there will not be a common multinational interest separate from national interests.
