Global problems

Abstract

The globalization process of the market economy, which accelerated after the disintegration of the Soviet Empire, has created new speculative spaces and a universal mercantile mind-set. While western economies continue to benefit from dirty money, the latter can now be invested even more easily in the countries of the South, or merely transit through them before recycling in the North. While present-day “globalization” economics treats the world as a single space, politics continues to use its classic tools of diplomacy, war, areas of influence, etc., which are characteristic of pre-existing divisions and realities.