In this article, we analyzed the political and economic transformations through the years that implied a profound transformation of the state around the world. This was approached from a historical analysis that was key to understanding the changes produced by the crisis of the international system by the end of the Cold War. The spread of economic globalization (because of the expansion and Foreign Direct Investment) as well as the consequent transformation of the state in its roles and functioning are relevant for the analysis. For instance, the oil crisis of the seventies, the consequent economic transformations of the eighties, the crisis in the states and their transformations, as well as the global impact that Foreign Direct Investment had after the end of the Cold War, were the main aspects that we addressed to explain the roots of the fall of the West and the rise of the East.