Who Runs the World?

Power in the global economy is shifting - but not in the way you think.

For a long time, we have lived in a unipolar world: a world dominated by one powerful state. Since the 1980s, that power has been the US, which has eclipsed the rest of the world economically, financially, politically, and militarily.

Unipolarity doesn’t simply mean that one state is powerful than all the other states. It means that one state is more powerful than the next most powerful states combined.