In discussions of international politics, the focus is often on national governments and their representatives. But are such discussions missing the larger picture—that the era of nation-states’ primacy in the global order is coming to an end? In other words, will the future of global power be a story of corporations, not countries? In a Foreign Affairs article from 2021 and a recent Ted Talk, Bremmer argued that companies, and particularly tech companies, are becoming the dominant players on the world stage. “States have been the primary actors in global affairs for nearly 400 years,” he wrote in Foreign Affairs.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 24, 2023 07:08 UTC