The objective of this article is to apply a triadic analytical scheme to the study of the international system as an alternative to unidimensional and dichotomous approaches. The latter gives rise to reductionist assessments, insofar as they do not reveal the dynamism and complexity of global social reality. The Analysis is qualitative in nature and is used to analyze the international system and establish an assessment of the interplay of forces to which it owes its impulse. This assessment exists as a tool to validate the hypothesis of the potential for change in global economic governance. Based on international system’s diagnosis, heuristic approaches look for alternatives to current governance. The main findings are: i) predominance of economic and financial power over political and cultural power in contemporary globalization, which give governance an entropic character; ii) possibility of establishing corrections through the empowerment of multilateral political governance; iii) the need to reform and strengthen the United Nations, as the governing body of multilateral political governance.