Convergence Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

We cannot leap into world government through one quick step.... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

— John Boyd Orr

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

— Kenichi Ohmae

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

— Richard N. Haass

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague…

— Joseph Stalin

We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as…

— Gordon Brown

Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

— Richard N. Haass

However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or…

— Vijay Prashad

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

— Sanjaya Baru

With the decline of American interests in the outcome of this region, there is no glue holding it together. And the countries in this…

— George Friedman