Zbigniew Brzezisnki:
The defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union was the final step in the rapid ascension of the United States, as the sole and, indeed, the first truly global power. The American political experience tends to serve as a standard for emulation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. [We need] to manage the rise of other regional powers in ways that do not threaten America’s global primacy. A wider Europe and an enlarged NATO will serve well both the short-term and the long-term goals of U.S. policy.
Globalization is no more than a mystifying term for imperialism, the unequal spread of capitalism on the planetary scale.