dialectical completion of global apartheid (collective imperialism)?

Prefatory note to readers who read only the first two lines: I am OPPOSED to
the "global apartheid" mentioned below and favour ABOLITION of "global
apartheid".
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"Dialectical" is used in the sense of "through struggle".
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A possible world-systems interpretation of the current war of NATO vs.
Yugoslavia is in terms of a process of dialectical completion of global
apartheid. Begin with the year 1899: high time of European imperialism.
European imperial powers of the time were: Britain, France, Netherlands,
Portugal, Russia, Spain (old imperial powers), Germany, Italy (new imperial
powers), USA (emerging imperial power). Hobson, Lenin and others were
writing about that kind of imperialism. These imperialisms were highly
COMPETITIVE. Move forward +100 years to 1999. The same powers (except
Russia) bend together under the name of NATO to beat up a small country. The
ideology is noble, the behaviour is not. The competitive imperialisms of
1899 are now transformed into a COLLECTIVE /COOPERATIVE imperialism (1999).
It just happens that all these countries are Western/White (predominantly).
They left out one of their kind: Russia. Russia is, currently, in the
process of being "integrated" into the club ("sorry, we forgot you"). (Japan
stays/is kept outside.) Emerging result projected: The world will be divided
like the old South Africa -- all the rich and white countries together
(Russia will catch up)
versus the multi-ethnic and less rich rest of the world. [Special role for
Japan -- rich but non-Western.] Todate the "core" of the world-system is
more compactly "core" than ever. Awesome. I am wondering whether the
historical "ReOrient" process diagnosed by Professor Frank is going to be
violent and whether the next major global war predicted by
world-system-cycle scholars for 2025+ could be between world core
(collective) and world periphery (collective) rather than an old-fashioned
hegemonial showdown between imperialism X and imperialism Y?

Gernot Kohler
Oakville, Canada