ABSTRACT
The wars of the nations, from 1914 to 1945, thus killed the nation as an organizing principle for the society of states. World War II entirely discredited nationalism; the Cold War then eliminated communism and the idea that the state could play a role as an economic manager. The fall of the Berlin wall has accelerated an American-led process of globalization, which is reshaping the nature of geo-politics and along the North-South division. The process of globalization is transforming the international system in two paradoxical ways: it is connecting people, harmonizing standards, universalizing ideas, empowering business, popularizing access to information and weakening geographical borders. The hostility of US-led neo-liberal globalization towards borders and sovereignty will tend to weaken, destabilize or eradicate states in the south, a process that will generate further chaos and fertilize new breeding grounds for new conflicts. In fact for many years, America contended officially that its enemies must join the so-called "civilized" world of law-abiding nations.
