United States - International Diplomacy - Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/magazine/27world-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
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Apparantly, this article consists of extracts taken from a forthcoming book. It should be well worth reading. There are facts and concepts I was not aware of, and it is not simply a critique or an examination of how things are and will become, but a treatise on how to get the best out of the new world order.
Posted on 06-Feb-08 at 3:02 am | PermalinkI will not be around long enough to see whether things work out as described, or whether for instance China, like Russia before it, shakes off it’s authoritarian administration and desintigrates as a consequence.
The article assumes that the status quo of the worlds major trading blocks remain as is. What we have seen over the last twenty years might indicate that this is unlikely and we are all becoming part of smaller entities which are then aligned to various larger economic and political organisations. This type of scenario might present the United Nations with more of a role than envisaged by this writer who does not talk about the move towards individual liberty which inevitably comes with education and prosperity.