Globalization and the Emerging World Order: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa

There is a generally shared opinion that the world is changing, but considerable dispute about how it is changing. Commentators on local, national, regional and global issues have variously located this change in a ‘power shift’ from West to East, a trade in superpower status between the United States and China or a transition from an era of bipolarity to one of unipolarity, multipolarity or even non-polarity (Buzan & Lawson, 2023).