A new global domestic politics that is already at work here and now, beyond the national-international distinction, has become a meta-power game, whose outcome is completely open-ended. It is a game in which boundaries, basic rules and basic distinctions are renegotiated -not only those between the national and
the international spheres, but also those between global business and the state, transnational civil society movements, supra-national organizations and national governments and societies. No single player or opponent can ever win on their own; they are dependent on alliances. This is the way, then, in which the hazy
power game of global domestic politics opens up its own immanent alternatives and oppositions. The first one, which is dominant today, gives the priority of power to global capital. The goal of the strategies of capital is, in simplified terms, to merge capital with the state in order to open up new sources of legitimacy in the form of the neo-liberal state. Its orthodoxy says: there is only one revolutionary power, which rewrites the rules of the global power order, and that is capital, while the other actors - nation-states and civil society movements - remain bound by the limited options of action and power of the national and international order.
This dominant coalition of capital and national minimal state is not only not in a position to respond to the challenges of world risk society, it becomes fundamentally implausible in the experiential space of believed global risks.