ABSTRACT
In South Africa, the dominance of the white minority over the black majority takes different forms—from the denial of political representation to the black majority to brutal repression to an enormous differential in living standards to many others. The global society is a mirror reflection of South African society. One can go a step further and say that global apartheid is even more severe than South African apartheid. The world is commonly seen as a multitude of countries or nation-states. World politics and world economics are commonly understood as a set of relations between sovereign nation-states. The literature that comes closest to dealing with global structure in this sense is to be found in the writings on imperialism, dependency, and center-periphery relations. Most observers agree that the international system is in a phase of major changes, although there is a wide range of views both on the nature and on the most desirable direction of the transformation.
