States More Interdependent On Each Other For Economic and Military Security In the new world system that has come about there hasn’t been a specific shift in the way that things are run. The United States still has the power it used to have, except it doesn’t have to worry about the Soviets (now Russia) challenging them, to a certain extent. The US still has to watch the economic turmoil in Russia and in other countries, because of how the world markets are set up. Everyone is dependent on someone else, be it for oil, security, or culturally. States run their business the way that they see it should be done, and for the most part this h