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Chesterton called the "money power" an inadequate expression, for which however, no adequate alternative has yet been found, the power of money as an international force and those in possession of it, notably the international banking system and the institutions of the international banking system: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The end of the Second World War, is between the national powers and emerging forces of national conglomerates and the forces working within them for internationalism. De Gaulle was a champion of the rights of the nation- state and later of the nation-empire and believed that military defence at a national/imperial level was a priority for the century to phone number list come. His influence is still very strong, especially in France. There are many who believe that a united Europe will become a kind of mini-empire with ambitions to out-bid, out buy and out flank the United States.

There is a tendency all over the world for nation states to move closer to their partners as part of some politico-economic bloc. The Andean Pact created in 1969, including Bolivia, Ecuador, Columbia, Peru and Venezuela, then Mercosur, set up by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay in 1991, NAFTA (Canada, Mexico, U.S.A.) in 1994, which received a fillip from the defeat of Quebec nationalism in the referendum of 1995, the European Union of course, APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Co- operation), the League of Arab States, the Organization of African Unity, are all moves in the direction of power blocs which are intended to weaken and ultimately replace the nation state.