No single power can any longer impose total world order

Evidence

In a world densely populated with knowledgeable and intensely mobile gardeners, no room seems to be left for the Gardener Supreme, the gardener of gardeners. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 620

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Power as damage threat cannot explain power’s order-creating function in complex societies.; States gain global influence only by surrendering some sovereignty — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 183

Related

• Much societal power remains beyond the political system’s reach (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• States gain global influence only by surrendering some sovereignty #corroborates (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 183
• Power as damage threat cannot explain power’s order-creating function in complex societies. #corroborates (0.72)