To this Ohio State University International Relations Professor a one world state is inevitable. To Alt media blogger James Corbett it's a catastrophe.

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Today's show is not about consciousness, spirituality, or any of the topics we normally cover. Today's show is about geopolitics and whether a "One World State," or what some call a, "New World Order," is an inevitable political reality. It's a provocative topic, and may be of interest to some Skeptiko listeners, but what makes this show special are the participants in this threaded debate. Dr. Alexander Wendt is a professor at Ohio State University and a recognized expert on international relations and political science. He's a serious academic, but as you'll see in this interview, he's willing to take seriously, and straightforwardly address, the concerns of those who believe deep state politics are driving world politics.

After talking to Wendt, I wanted to hear from someone on the front lines of reporting on these deep state geopolitical shenanigans. So, I asked James Corbett, a leading figure in the geopolitical, alternative media and host of the Corbett Report to give me his take on Wendt's influential One World State paper.

The result was a challenging, and sometimes uncomfortable dialog about questions that don't seem to get as much attention as they deserve... e.g. if a one world state really is inevitable should "we the people" try and shape it?

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Read Excerpts From Interview With Dr. Alexander Wendt:

Dr. Alexander Wendt: In 3000 BC there was something like 600,000 independent political units in the world, most of which are tribes and hardly states at all. But they were separate, sovereign entities and [there were] 600,000 of them. And now we have 190,000. So if you plot that trajectory on a graph what you see is a tremendous consolidation of political authority worldwide over the ensuing millennia. So you project that a bit further and you end up with one. So it seems to me that there has been an increase in the number of states since World War II with the colonization and the break up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and so on…but overall I think the trend historically has been fewer and fewer states. And if you add in globalization, the Internet, climate change, that war between states is becoming irrational. There’s just many factors that make the idea of the separate sovereign state increasingly silly.

You can [also] add in the spirit of democracy; the so-called Democratic Peace--democracies hardly ever go to war with each other; and the growth of international instituti...