As its era of global dominance
ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power
architecture.
Five basic verities regarding the emerging
redistribution of global political power and the violent political awakening in
the Middle East are signaling the coming of a new global realignment. The first
of these verities is that the United States is still the world’s politically,
economically, and militarily most powerful entity but, given complex
geopolitical shifts in regional balances, it is no longer the globally imperial
power. But neither is any other major power. The second verity is that Russia
is experiencing the latest convulsive phase of its imperial devolution. A
painful process, Russia is not fatally precluded – if it acts...
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