As globalism expands and begins to stumble on its own internal contradictions, world politics in the coming years will increasingly be defined by this developing struggle. Globalisation is a new stage of capitalism in its development of a single world economic system. It is the logic of global, rather than national, accumulation that guides the political and economic behaviour of the ruling bloc. In the US, the globalist ruling bloc has three main factions: neoliberal structuralists, free-market conservatives and liberal regulationists. The article explains and critiques the main tenets of these factions.
