Faced with the violent jolts caused by the crisis of US power, globalisation reveals itself as a geopolitical phenomenon. Being immersed in the American century, we were not aware of it and took its characteristic features for granted: the supremacy of liberal societies, the unifying force of interdependencies, the completeness of capitalist economies. Yet all is now being questioned, both outside and inside America. And by dismantling the myth of globalisation, we can try to imagine what type of world lies ahead of us.